Skyports partners with Robotic Skies to develop maintenance programmes for UAS and Advanced Air Mobility markets

Sky­ports and Robot­ic Skies, the glob­al MRO net­work for com­mer­cial unmanned air­craft sys­tems (UAS), are to work togeth­er to devel­op main­te­nance facil­i­ties and pro­grammes for the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) indus­try.

As well as being a drone deliv­ery provider, Sky­ports designs, builds and oper­ates net­works of ver­ti­ports — to enable the safe trans­porta­tion of air taxi and car­go drone oper­a­tions in major cities.

The com­pa­ny oper­ates end-to-end drone deliv­er­ies with­in the med­ical, e‑commerce, and logis­tics sec­tors, and is cur­rent­ly con­duct­ing med­ical drone deliv­er­ies to assist the NHS in Scot­land in the bat­tle against COVID-19.

Dun­can Walk­er, CEO of Sky­ports, said: “Cer­ti­fied main­te­nance is vital to enable full-scale, per­ma­nent com­mer­cial drone deliv­ery oper­a­tions. With Robot­ic Skies, our fleet of UAV sys­tems will be main­tained to the same safe­ty stan­dards as tra­di­tion­al cer­ti­fied air­craft.

“This part­ner­ship allows us to fur­ther demon­strate our com­mit­ment to the safe oper­a­tion and inte­gra­tion of deliv­ery drones along­side oth­er users of the air­space and sup­ports our plans to grow our ser­vice net­work inter­na­tion­al­ly.”

In addi­tion, as a par­tic­i­pant in the UK Civ­il Avi­a­tion Authority’s (CAA) Reg­u­la­to­ry Sand­box, Sky­ports is also work­ing to advance reg­u­la­to­ry approvals that fos­ter more beyond visu­al line of sight (BVLOS) oper­a­tions and the safe inte­gra­tion of these flights into non-seg­re­gat­ed air­space – key to real­is­ing a per­ma­nent drone deliv­ery ser­vice. 

Robot­ic Skies, through part­ner­ships with com­pa­nies like Sky­ports, pro­vides enter­prise UAS and drone deliv­ery fleet oper­a­tors with local field main­te­nance ser­vices.

The com­pa­ny’s pro­pri­etary sys­tem com­bines exper­tise in unmanned air­craft sys­tems and tra­di­tion­al avi­a­tion main­te­nance method­ol­o­gy to deliv­er high-qual­i­ty, scal­able ser­vices. The Robot­ic Skies Ser­vice Cen­ter net­work is com­prised of over 200 inde­pen­dent­ly owned and oper­at­ed cer­ti­fied repair sta­tions, span­ning more than 40 coun­tries.

Robot­ic Skies Founder and CEO, Brad Hay­den, said: “We are excit­ed to part­ner with Sky­ports as they pur­sue the expan­sion of drone deliv­ery and oth­er BVLOS flight oper­a­tions in the UK and beyond.

“Our glob­al Ser­vice Cen­ter Net­work puts high-qual­i­ty sup­port ser­vices where Sky­ports cus­tomers need it. Because we are lever­ag­ing the exist­ing manned avi­a­tion infra­struc­ture, we offer the high­est qual­i­ty, safe­ty, and con­sis­ten­cy in our pro­grams to sat­is­fy oper­a­tors, reg­u­la­tors, and man­u­fac­tur­ers.”