Skyportz to bring Its AeroBerm vertiport technology to Oman in new partnership with AeroVecto Aviation Services

AeroVec­to Avi­a­tion Ser­vices (AVAS) has entered into an agree­ment with Sky­portz to intro­duce and test its Aer­oBerm™ ver­ti­pad tech­nol­o­gy in the Sul­tanate of Oman. The part­ner­ship marks the first step towards eval­u­at­ing next‑generation ground infra­struc­ture for Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty in the coun­try.

Sky­portz says Aer­oBerm™, part of the com­pa­ny’s patent­ed ver­ti­pad sys­tem, is designed to address one of the most sig­nif­i­cant chal­lenges in eVTOL air­craft oper­a­tions: man­ag­ing down­wash and out­wash safe­ly and effi­cient­ly. Aer­oBerm™ is designed to ame­lio­rate down­wash and out­wash to pro­tect peo­ple, oth­er air­craft and sur­round­ing ground equip­ment.

For Oman, these char­ac­ter­is­tics have direct rel­e­vance. The abil­i­ty to reduce tur­bu­lence impact and foot­print require­ments sup­ports inte­gra­tion of infra­struc­ture into dense urban areas, smart cities, logis­tics hubs, indus­tri­al zones and remote sites where con­ven­tion­al heli­pad designs may be imprac­ti­cal.

This con­trolled air­flow enables safer oper­a­tions, reduces risk to near­by prop­er­ty, and allows ver­ti­pads to be placed in more con­fined or com­mer­cial­ly viable loca­tions.

AVAS will eval­u­ate these ben­e­fits under local con­di­tions, includ­ing heat, wind pat­terns, and oper­a­tional con­straints unique to the Gulf region.

Fahad Al Riya­mi, CEO of AVAS, empha­sized the impor­tance of this col­lab­o­ra­tion for Oman’s emerg­ing AAM ecosys­tem. He said: “Our focus is to under­stand what works in our envi­ron­ment, prac­ti­cal­ly, safe­ly, and sus­tain­ably. Aer­oBerm™ offers a thought­ful approach to ver­ti­pad design, and this agree­ment allows us to study its per­for­mance in real‑world Omani set­tings.”

Addi­tion­al­ly, the part­ner­ship will focus on tech­ni­cal exchange, site assess­ments, and con­trolled test­ing of the Aer­oBerm™ sys­tem, sup­port­ing broad­er nation­al efforts to eval­u­ate advanced mobil­i­ty solu­tions as Oman explores future‑ready infra­struc­ture options.

The find­ings from this work will help inform how such tech­nolo­gies could be adapt­ed to local con­di­tions and inte­grat­ed into the country’s long‑term mobil­i­ty land­scape

Clem New­ton ‑Brown , CEO of Sky­portz, said: “We are pleased to part­ner with AeroVec­to to bring our rev­o­lu­tion­ary patent­ed ver­ti­pad to Oman. Togeth­er with our uni­ver­si­ty research part­ners, we will soon be pre­sent­ing detailed find­ings of Aer­oBer­m’s capa­bil­i­ties at inter­na­tion­al forums. The results we are achiev­ing on downwash/outwash and noise ame­lio­ra­tion are sig­nif­i­cant.”

Sky­portz Pty Ltd is an Aus­tralian-based Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty infra­struc­ture com­pa­ny focused on enabling the roll­out of safe, scal­able ver­ti­ports for elec­tric air taxi oper­a­tions.

Sky­portz is chal­leng­ing tra­di­tion­al air­port-cen­tric mod­els by pro­mot­ing a dis­trib­uted net­work of sim­ple, afford­able land­ing sites embed­ded with­in urban envi­ron­ments. It’s pro­pri­etary Aer­oberm™ ver­ti­pad prod­uct will be avail­able to glob­al mar­kets in May 2026.