Skyportz opens vertiport database, releases modular vertiport design

Sky­portz has opened its prop­er­ty part­ner data­base at the World Air Taxi Con­gress in Istan­bul, Turkey, to accept reg­is­tra­tions any­where in the world from poten­tial ver­ti­port loca­tions as well as a mod­u­lar ver­ti­port design that can be shipped to any loca­tion.

Designed by Con­tr­eras Earl Archi­tec­ture in Aus­tralia with site spe­cif­ic input from Arup and To70 Avi­a­tion they can be deployed in com­po­nents packed into ship­ping con­tain­ers around the world.

Beta Tech­nolo­gies will pro­vide a bat­tery charg­ing infra­struc­ture suit­able for almost any air­craft that may utilise the ver­ti­port. Late last month, Sky­portz announced the first Aus­tralian ver­ti­port part­ner­ship at a busi­ness park in Mel­bourne at Caribbean Park.

Sky­portz CEO Clem New­ton-Brown said: “The Caribbean Park design is for three active pads and mul­ti­ple charg­ing bays. This announce­ment today is about options for a more com­pact and afford­able unit that can be shipped and installed, in advance of the air­craft oper­at­ing.

“We are already get­ting inter­est from exist­ing heli­pad net­works oper­at­ed by oper­a­tors such as Microflite in Aus­tralia. Sky­portz can pro­vide a brand­ed net­work with Beta charg­ing facil­i­ties ready to oper­ate as soon as the eVTOL air­craft are avail­able.

“Anoth­er good appli­ca­tion is retro­fitting exist­ing build­ings and mul­ti-lev­el car park­ing garages, where ver­ti­ports can be used for oth­er pur­pos­es such as event spaces, cafes, bars or meet­ing rooms.

“The fron­trun­ners have had over $10 bil­lion invest­ed into air­craft devel­op­ment in the last year which needs to be dou­bled down into ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture as there is no point devel­op­ing these air­craft if they can’t land in new loca­tions.

“No-where in the world has any juris­dic­tion set out defin­i­tive rules, reg­u­la­tions and stan­dards for new ver­ti­ports. With our ver­ti­port data­base grow­ing dai­ly we can assem­ble net­works of sites in any launch mar­ket sought by investors.”

In March, Sky­portz, Sea World Heli­copters, Secure Park­ing and Gold Coast May­or Tom Tate joined forces to make South East Queens­land the cen­tre of the emerg­ing elec­tric air taxi indus­try in Aus­tralia, in time for the Bris­bane Olympics.