OHIO 2026: Hartzell Propeller to host site visit as part of eVTOL Insights’ North America Conference & Awards next month

eVTOL Insights is pleased to announce Hartzell Pro­peller will host a vis­it of its HQ in Piqua, Ohio, as part of its North Amer­i­ca Con­fer­ence & Awards next month.

The event will take place on Fri­day, May 1st and while exact tim­ings have yet to be con­firmed, it will like­ly be in the morn­ing between 9.30am and 12noon ET.

The vis­it will be an oppor­tu­ni­ty for del­e­gates attend­ing the con­fer­ence to hear more about the com­pa­ny, which is a glob­al leader in advanced air­craft pro­peller design and man­u­fac­tur­ing tech­nol­o­gy.

It traces its his­to­ry to 1914 when a rela­tion­ship between Orville Wright and Robert Hartzell led to the man­u­fac­ture of the first Hartzell air­plane pro­peller in 1917.

In June 2025, Hartzell Pro­peller received FAA Part 35 Type Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion for the first pro­peller designed specif­i­cal­ly for advanced air mobil­i­ty (AAM) air­craft.

The com­pa­ny worked with aero­space com­pa­ny BETA Tech­nolo­gies to achieve this land­mark, con­duct­ing all test­ing of its pro­peller on BETA’s pro­pri­etary elec­tric propul­sion sys­tems (elec­tric engines), which are designed and man­u­fac­tured in-house by BETA.

EVENT DETAILS

eVTOL Insights’ North Amer­i­ca Con­fer­ence & Awards 2026 will take place at the Nation­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Cen­ter of Excel­lence (NAAMCE) near Spring­field, Ohio.

The three-day event is sched­uled for Wednes­day, April 29 to Fri­day, May 1st, and promis­es to be a must-attend for pro­fes­sion­als across the glob­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty mar­ket.

It will fol­low pre­vi­ous eVTOL Insights con­fer­ences in North Amer­i­ca, which include New York (2022), Mon­tre­al (2024) and Palo Alto (2025).

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FULL EVENT PROGRAMME (tim­ings sched­uled to change)

Wednes­day, April 29th 2026
4pm to 6pm ET: Two-hour pri­vate site vis­it of NAAMCE
6pm to 8pm ET: Pre-event Drinks Recep­tion at NAAMCE

Thurs­day, April 30th 2026
9am to 5pm ET: eVTOL Insights’ North Amer­i­ca Con­fer­ence (reg­is­tra­tion from 8am ET)
5.30pm to 6.30pm ET: eVTOL Insights’ Glob­al AAM Awards 2026

Fri­day, May 1st 2026
9.30am to 12noon ET: Site vis­it to Hartzell Pro­peller HQ, Piqua, OH.

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Com­pa­nies con­firmed to attend and speak: 

Hori­zon Air­craft, Joby Avi­a­tion, Wisk, BETA Tech­nolo­gies, Evoli­to, SMG Con­sult­ing, Nation­al Avi­a­tion Trans­porta­tion Asso­ci­a­tion (NATA), EHang, Hartzell Pro­peller, NAAMCE, Ser­aph, Eagle­Nav Sky Vision, Eve Air Mobil­i­ty, Moya Aero, CAE, Ver­ti­port Chica­go, Job­sO­hio, Office of Ohio Gov­er­nor Mike DeWine, ANRA Tech­nolo­gies, Sky­Grid, AeroX, Viasat, Future Flight Glob­al, Piv­otal, Volo­copter and Regal Rexnord.

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The 2026 con­fer­ence will kick off on Wednes­day, April 29th with a pri­vate, two-hour site vis­it of NAAMCE, giv­ing del­e­gates unprece­dent­ed access to its state-of-the-art facil­i­ties, allow­ing them to learn direct­ly from the pio­neer­ing busi­ness­es and research teams work­ing on the future of eVTOL tech­nol­o­gy and asso­ci­at­ed advanced air mobil­i­ty sys­tems.

Del­e­gates will also have the chance to expe­ri­ence select air­craft sim­u­la­tors, gain­ing hands-on insight into the next gen­er­a­tion of air­craft design, oper­a­tions, and train­ing tools.

Fol­low­ing the facil­i­ty tour, guests are invit­ed to a pre-event drinks recep­tion, pro­vid­ing a relaxed net­work­ing envi­ron­ment ahead of the conference’s main pro­gram­ming. The recep­tion will offer atten­dees the oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­nect with peers, indus­try experts, and con­fer­ence speak­ers in an infor­mal set­ting.

The main con­fer­ence day will be held on Thurs­day, April 30th, fea­tur­ing keynotes, pan­els, and keynote pre­sen­ta­tions from indus­try lead­ers, inno­va­tors and pol­i­cy­mak­ers. After the con­fer­ence fin­ish­es, the 2026 Glob­al AAM Awards will take place and recog­nise more indi­vid­u­als and com­pa­nies work­ing with­in the glob­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty mar­ket.

The event will con­clude with a planned tour of Hartzell Propeller’s HQ in Piqua, OH. The com­pa­ny is the glob­al leader in advanced air­craft pro­peller design and man­u­fac­tur­ing tech­nol­o­gy.  

Top­ics to be dis­cussed in Ohio (sub­ject to change):

Ohio’s Role in Advanc­ing Air Mobil­i­ty

Indus­try Readi­ness: How Close are We to Com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion?

China’s Low Alti­tude Econ­o­my: Strat­e­gy, Scale and Glob­al Impli­ca­tions?

Air­space Inte­gra­tion and ATM/UTM

Build­ing the AAM Work­force of the 2030s

Man­u­fac­tur­ing, Pro­duc­tion & Sup­ply Chain

Flight Test­ing: Expec­ta­tions for 2026

Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion & Reg­u­la­tion

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ABOUT NAAMCE

Locat­ed at the Springfield–Beckley Munic­i­pal Air­port, the NAAMCE opened in Sep­tem­ber 2023 and is a pre­mier research and devel­op­ment facil­i­ty ded­i­cat­ed to advanc­ing the field of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty. Span­ning 55,000 square feet, the cen­ter com­pris­es 30,000 square feet of admin­is­tra­tive, lab­o­ra­to­ry, meet­ing, and col­lab­o­ra­tion spaces, along with an addi­tion­al 25,000 square feet of air­craft hangar space.

NAAMCE serves as a col­lab­o­ra­tive hub, bring­ing togeth­er key stake­hold­ers from the U.S. Air Force Research Lab­o­ra­to­ry, NASA, the Ohio Unmanned Air­craft Sys­tems Cen­ter, aca­d­e­m­ic insti­tu­tions and pri­vate indus­try. The facil­i­ty sup­ports a wide range of activ­i­ties, includ­ing the devel­op­ment and test­ing of eVTOL air­craft, high-speed VTOL air­craft and oth­er AAM tech­nolo­gies.

In addi­tion to its research and devel­op­ment func­tions, NAAMCE plays a piv­otal role in work­force devel­op­ment and train­ing. The cen­ter is equipped with eVTOL sim­u­la­tors to train crew mem­bers and sup­ports var­i­ous demon­stra­tion projects that show­case tech­nolo­gies advanc­ing AAM inte­gra­tion beyond the air­craft itself.

Speak­er and spon­sor­ship oppor­tu­ni­ties are now avail­able, and inter­est­ed com­pa­nies are encour­aged to reach out to Sam Brom­ley, Sales Man­ag­er at eVTOL Insights, to learn more about how they can get involved. His email is sam.bromley@iigroup.global

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