Overair teams up with Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and City of Arlington to bring eVTOL aircraft operations to Texas

Overair has announced sig­nif­i­cant part­ner­ships with Dal­las Fort Worth Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (DFW) and the city of Arling­ton, Texas, which will look to devel­op eVTOL air­craft oper­a­tions in the region.

The part­ner­ship with DFW will include a fea­si­bil­i­ty assess­ment for inte­grat­ing pas­sen­ger eVTOL oper­a­tions across the North Texas region. The agree­ment will cre­ate a joint, cross-func­tion­al work­ing group to explore the poli­cies and infra­struc­ture need­ed to imple­ment an inte­grat­ed, sus­tain­able eVTOL pro­gram at DFW in the future.

The work­ing group will also inves­ti­gate the oper­a­tional pro­ce­dures, includ­ing approach, land­ing, taxi­ing, charg­ing, load­ing and unload­ing pas­sen­gers, take­off, depar­ture and safe­ty pro­to­cols required for such a pro­gram.

Overair will also lead an assess­ment of the demand for all-elec­tric advanced air mobil­i­ty ser­vices with­in the DFW Metro­plex and eval­u­ate sce­nar­ios for flight oper­a­tions in and out of ver­ti­port loca­tions.

Valerie Man­ning, Overair’s Chief Com­mer­cial Offi­cer, said: “Today’s agree­ment is a major step toward bring­ing Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty to one of the world’s largest and fastest grow­ing met­ro­pol­i­tan areas. We look for­ward to work­ing close­ly with DFW to ensure the more than eight mil­lion peo­ple liv­ing through­out this region, along with the mil­lions of vis­i­tors per year, will have easy access to safe, fast, afford­able, and eco-friend­ly trav­el options.”

DFW Air­port EVP Inno­va­tion Paul Puopo­lo, added: “DFW Air­port has a long his­to­ry of build­ing the ground­work today for the air­port needs of the future. By explor­ing the future of avi­a­tion now, we will help bet­ter posi­tion the entire DFW Metro­plex for the next era of inno­v­a­tive air mobil­i­ty.”

Overair’s col­lab­o­ra­tion with Arling­ton rep­re­sents the first-ever direct part­ner­ship between a city in the state and an eVTOL OEM. It plans to start com­mer­cial oper­a­tions from Arling­ton Munic­i­pal Air­port, offer­ing a direct con­nec­tion to the city’s vibrant enter­tain­ment dis­trict.

As per the agree­ment, Overair and the City of Arling­ton will estab­lish a joint, cross-func­tion­al work­ing group to over­see and address the chal­lenges of the project and ensure time­ly com­ple­tion of mile­stones.

This will include an ini­tial fea­si­bil­i­ty study con­duct­ed by Overair to assess the demand for AAM ser­vices with­in the Arling­ton area and eval­u­ate sce­nar­ios for flight oper­a­tions in and out of ver­ti­port loca­tions.

The goal is to have an oper­a­tional ver­ti­port in Arling­ton by the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The USA is one of the host coun­tries, with Dal­las hav­ing been select­ed as one of its host cities.

Arling­ton May­or Jim Ross, said: “This part­ner­ship with Overair not only advances the City of Arling­ton as a leader in imple­ment­ing inno­v­a­tive trans­porta­tion solu­tions, it also pro­vides high-tech and engi­neer­ing jobs to our res­i­dents and the com­mu­ni­ty at large; ulti­mate­ly cre­at­ing a new mobil­i­ty ecosys­tem that will pro­vide socio-eco­nom­ic progress for decades to come.

“We are excit­ed to work with Overair to shape the future of trans­porta­tion for our city and the DFW region.”

With the devel­op­ment of the But­ter­fly air­craft cur­rent­ly on sched­ule to meet the goals and time­lines of the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Administration’s Innovate28 ini­tia­tive, Overair seeks to solve many of the logis­ti­cal chal­lenges asso­ci­at­ed with mov­ing peo­ple and goods (com­muter, char­ter, med­ical trans­port, car­go).

Butterfly’s unique pro­pri­etary propul­sion sys­tem and over­sized rotors allow the air­craft to fly safe­ly, qui­et­ly and effi­cient­ly in a wide vari­ety of weath­er con­di­tions.