PAS 2025: “Wisk, Japan Airlines Engineering Sign MOU with City of Kaga”

Wisk Aero released announced today at the Paris Air­show (PAS), it has signed a three-par­ty Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) with The City of Kaga, Ishikawa, Japan, and Japan Air­lines’ sub­sidiary, JAL Engi­neer­ing (JALEC), reports a press release. This part­ner­ship will estab­lish oppor­tu­ni­ties for intro­duc­ing autonomous air trav­el in Japan.

Build­ing on Wisk’s exist­ing part­ner­ship with Japan Air­lines (JAL) and JALEC, the new col­lab­o­ra­tion with Kaga City will focus on sev­er­al key areas.

: Reg­u­la­to­ry and air­space sys­tem devel­op­ment.

: Mar­ket analy­sis and devel­op­ment.

: Social accep­tance of AAM and autonomous avi­a­tion.

: Sup­ply chain sup­port and man­u­fac­tur­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties.

Kaga City has been des­ig­nat­ed by the Japan­ese gov­ern­ment as “a nation­al strate­gic spe­cial zone,” paving the way for mobil­i­ty ini­tia­tives with­in the city by estab­lish­ing the Next-Gen­er­a­tion Air Mobil­i­ty Con­sor­tium in Japan. This makes the city an ide­al loca­tion for the devel­op­ment, test­ing and val­i­da­tion of autonomous air mobil­i­ty.

Sebastien Vigneron

Sebastien Vigneron, CEO of Wisk, enthused, “Japan is a key mar­ket for the intro­duc­tion of AAM and Kaga City’s for­ward-think­ing approach to future mobil­i­ty, cou­pled with its spe­cial zone des­ig­na­tion, pro­vides an ide­al envi­ron­ment for us to explore and demon­strate the ben­e­fits of our Gen 6 air­craft.” Adding, “This part­ner­ship is an impor­tant step towards build­ing the nec­es­sary ecosys­tem for autonomous flight in Japan.”

Hiro­ki Haraikawa, VP of Mar­ket­ing & Sales, JALEC, com­ment­ed, “This three-way part­ner­ship will play a cen­tral role in real­is­ing autonomous AAM in Japan­ese soci­ety. Togeth­er, we will demon­strate the emerg­ing autonomous tech­nol­o­gy and build the nation­wide trust­wor­thi­ness about the safe­ty of such oper­a­tions.”

Riku Miyamo­to, May­or of Kaga City, added, “Our city is a local gov­ern­ment with a pop­u­la­tion of around 62,000 peo­ple. The advan­tage of being small­er than Tokyo or Osa­ka is there is a high degree of free­dom as a R&D devel­op­ment region, where one-stop arrange­ments are pos­si­ble.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://wisk.aero/

https://www.jal.com/en

(Top image: The Wisk Aero and JALEC Team)

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