PLANA partners with Gloria Aviation to train AAM talents

PLANA has part­nered with Glo­ria Avi­a­tion to devel­op a joint busi­ness and train AAM indus­try tal­ent at a cer­e­mo­ny held at PLANA’s Icheon R&D cen­tre, which was attend­ed by major stake­hold­ers from both com­pa­nies, includ­ing Jin­mo Lee, CPO of PLANA, and Dae-hyun Shin, CEO of Glo­ria Avi­a­tion.

Main­te­nance and repair of air­craft is one of the essen­tial ele­ments for a safe and accu­rate oper­a­tion, which requires com­pe­tence that com­bines accu­mu­lat­ed data on air­craft, infor­ma­tion on air­craft, and main­te­nance know-how.

PLANA and Glo­ria Avi­a­tion plan to con­tribute to the devel­op­ment of the domes­tic AAM indus­try by shar­ing man­pow­er and tech­nol­o­gy need­ed for devel­op­ing and oper­at­ing AAM air­craft.

They will estab­lish an edu­ca­tion pro­gram and qual­i­fi­ca­tion stan­dards for AAM avi­a­tion work­ers, and con­duct research and devel­op­ment on main­te­nance and oper­a­tion meth­ods, and will also start work­ing on the AAM Air Oper­a­tor Cer­tifi­cate (AOC) stan­dards.

AOC is a sys­tem that ver­i­fies whether an avi­a­tion oper­a­tor has the nec­es­sary per­son­nel, facil­i­ties, equip­ment, and main­te­nance sup­port sys­tem for a safe flight.

“The avi­a­tion indus­try is fac­ing a major tech­no­log­i­cal turn­ing point with the intro­duc­tion of elec­tric air­craft, and like elec­tric vehi­cles, elec­tric air­craft will become an eas­i­ly acces­si­ble mode of trans­porta­tion for the gen­er­al pub­lic with­in a few decades,” said Dae-hyun Shin, CEO of Glo­ria Avi­a­tion.

Jin­mo Lee, CPO of PLANA, added: “We expect that PLANA’s hybrid air­craft will con­tribute to the sta­bil­i­sa­tion of elec­tric air­craft by pro­vid­ing a tech­ni­cal buffer dur­ing the con­ver­sion process to pure elec­tric pow­er.

“Through this agree­ment, we will be able to train man­pow­er and tech­nol­o­gy that are the most impor­tant fac­tors in the avi­a­tion indus­try. We will con­tin­ue to con­tribute to the growth and acti­va­tion of the AAM mar­ket and strive to build a com­pet­i­tive AAM ecosys­tem at home and abroad.”

Glo­ria Avi­a­tion is a glob­al avi­a­tion com­pa­ny that con­tributes to avi­a­tion safe­ty and the effi­cien­cy of the avi­a­tion indus­try through its edu­ca­tion busi­ness­es, such as Korea Avi­a­tion Col­lege and Glo­ria Flight Acad­e­my for train­ing avi­a­tion pro­fes­sion­als, MRO busi­ness, for­est fire sup­pres­sion, and VIP trans­port heli­copter rental busi­ness, includ­ing Doc­tor Heli­copter health, edu­ca­tion, main­te­nance and sup­port (HEMS), a UAM infra­struc­ture sup­port busi­ness, Cess­na autho­rised ser­vice cen­tre, and oper­a­tion of Garmin Asia cen­tre.

In May, PLANA entered into a busi­ness part­ner­ship with Movi­a­tion, a local UAM ser­vice start­up that intro­duced its urban air mobil­i­ty ser­vice plat­form Von­aer in Feb­ru­ary, to offer extra ser­vices such as book­ing air vehi­cles, link­ing with ground trans­porta­tion ser­vices, and run­ning lounges.

Plana and Movi­a­tion join forces on AAM Ecosys­tem