PAS 2025: “Wisk Aero Establishes Miami as Early Market for U.S Air Taxi Operations”

Wisk Aero has announced at the Paris Air­show (PAS), the sign­ing of two Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ings (MOUs):- 

: With the Mia­mi-Dade Avi­a­tion Depart­ment (MDAD). 

: With the Uni­ver­si­ty of Miami’s Engi­neer­ing Auton­o­my Mobil­i­ty Ini­tia­tive (MEAMI). 

These col­lab­o­ra­tions are an impor­tant step towards inte­grat­ing safe autonomous air trav­el to Mia­mi, Flori­da, one of America’s largest met­ro­pol­i­tan areas.

The MOU with MDAD focus­es on plan­ning, infra­struc­ture devel­op­ment, pol­i­cy path­ways and the com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion of autonomous AAM in Mia­mi-Dade Coun­ty and at MDAD air­ports. Under the terms:-

: Wisk and MDAD are to part­ner on iden­ti­fy­ing opti­mal loca­tions and assess the devel­op­ment of ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture at MDAD air­ports includ­ing Mia­mi Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (MIA); Mia­mi Exec­u­tive Air­port (KTMB); and Opa-loc­ka Exec­u­tive Air­port (OPF).

: Wisk will pro­vide tech­ni­cal guid­ance on ver­ti­port needs for autonomous oper­a­tions to inform the design and devel­op­ment of infra­struc­ture and flight pro­ce­dures, as well as plan for poten­tial site expan­sion.

: MDAD is to incor­po­rate autonomous AAM con­sid­er­a­tions in to exist­ing plan­ning efforts includ­ing air­port devel­op­ment, elec­tri­cal infra­struc­ture and air­space man­age­ment, and inte­grate AAM plans with­in Mia­mi-Dade Coun­ty, con­nect­ing MDAD air­ports to the broad­er region.

The MOU with the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mia­mi (MEAMI) estab­lish­es a frame­work for col­lab­o­ra­tive R&D to advance autonomous mobil­i­ty tech­nol­o­gy. Under the terms of this MOU, Wisk and MEAMI will:-

: Col­lab­o­rate on R&D for advanced tech­nol­o­gy, oper­a­tions, reg­u­la­tions, safe­ty and over­all AAM devel­op­ment.

: Devel­op busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties to advance autonomous mobil­i­ty tech­nol­o­gy, specif­i­cal­ly with­in U.S reg­u­la­to­ry frame­work.

: Utilise Uni­ver­si­ty of Mia­mi resources and facil­i­ties as well as pur­sue grant oppor­tu­ni­ties for joint projects and prod­uct devel­op­ment.

Sebastien Vigneron, CEO of Wisk, com­ment­ed, “We are excit­ed to deep­en our roots here. These part­ner­ships are help­ing us build the entire AAM ecosys­tem and unlock the full poten­tial of autonomous oper­a­tions at scale so we can bring safe, every­day flight to every­one.” Adding, “Mia­mi has demon­strat­ed long-stand­ing sup­port for AAM, mak­ing it a nat­ur­al fit for future Wisk oper­a­tions.”

Daniel­la Levine Cava

Daniel­la Levine Cava, Mia­mi-Dade Coun­ty May­or, remarked, “Our col­lab­o­ra­tion allows us to plan for the future of air trav­el, enhance con­nec­tiv­i­ty and explore new eco­nom­ic oppor­tu­ni­ties. Mia­mi Inter­na­tion­al Air­port is the busiest in Flori­da and the sec­ond in the coun­try for inter­na­tion­al pas­sen­gers, which makes it a per­fect launch site for AAM.”

The release con­cludes, “Wisk has been cham­pi­oning AAM in the Greater Mia­mi region for the past cou­ple of years as an inau­gur­al mem­ber of the Flori­da Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion’s AAM Advi­so­ry Coun­cil.” 

The Mia­mi region joins Hous­ton, Texas, Los Ange­les Coun­ty and Bris­bane, Aus­tralia as impor­tant launch mar­kets for Wisk.

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