Skyportz: World First Vertiport-in-a-Box Design Released at International Paris Air Show

Sky­portz released news this week in con­junc­tion with the Paris Air­show, a design of a rev­o­lu­tion­ary ver­ti­port to sup­port the rapid deploy­ment of a net­work of air taxi land­ing sites glob­al­ly. The new design rep­re­sents an afford­able, mod­u­lar, turn-key solu­tion for small­er prop­er­ty sites wish­ing to join the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty future.

Speak­ing from the Air­show, Clem New­ton-Brown, Sky­portz CEO, com­ments, “The focus in the indus­try to date has been on larg­er ver­ti­ports locat­ed at exist­ing air­ports. This is the low hang­ing fruit which will form the essen­tial back­bone of an Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty ecosys­tem. How­ev­er, if this indus­try is to reach its poten­tial we need to break the nexus between avi­a­tion and air­ports and let pri­vate prop­er­ty own­ers devel­op their own ver­ti­ports.”

He con­tin­ues, “At Sky­portz we are focus­ing on afford­able options that prop­er­ty devel­op­ers can incor­po­rate into new devel­op­ments or retro­fit into exist­ing build­ings. Our first design is a beau­ti­ful tiny alu­mini­um shell mod­u­lar ver­ti­port build­ing that can be deliv­ered to site in an open topped ship­ping con­tain­er. It can be afford­ably shipped any­where in the world. It is designed and cost­ed and can be built and deliv­ered right now.”

The release explains, “The finan­cials for ver­ti­ports requir­ing big invest­ments do not stack up for now with no air­craft yet cer­ti­fied and no imme­di­ate busi­ness mod­el. How­ev­er, the prop­er­ty play­ers have an intense inter­est in get­ting on board with this rev­o­lu­tion. The prop­er­ty sites are the miss­ing piece of the mobil­i­ty puz­zle.”  

New­ton-Brown adds, “Every­one can sense this is going to be big, but no-one wants to get burnt by over-cap­i­tal­is­ing too ear­ly. What the prop­er­ty indus­try needs is an entry lev­el step to get a toe hold into the ecosys­tem. They want some­thing that is small, fixed price and able to be eas­i­ly installed.”

He car­ries on, “With the Ver­ti­port-in-a-Box prop­er­ty, own­ers can move fast to show their investors and ten­ants that they are ready to be part of this rev­o­lu­tion, and the ver­ti­port build­ing can be used for oth­er pur­pos­es such as a bar or cafe while we wait for air­craft to get cer­ti­fied.”

The Ver­ti­port-in-a-Box™ con­cept can be viewed on a desk­top in an AR World here:-

https://spaces.w3rlds.com/1163e926-5a23-458f-9815–719d820d506f

Here is the tech­ni­cal specs pow­er­point pre­sen­ta­tion:-

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z4clbnq3h6c7pqe/%23Vertiport-in-a-Box.pdf?dl=0

It is gen­er­al­ly con­sid­ered that it’s too soon to get approvals for ver­ti­port uses from Gov­ern­ments, as the stan­dards are still in devel­op­ment, and no-where in the world has any Gov­ern­ment set out the rules and reg­u­la­tions (oth­er than for dis­play sites).

New­ton Brown remarks, “Sky­portz will be get­ting our net­work of ver­ti­ports estab­lished now with enthu­si­as­tic prop­er­ty own­ers who will come back lat­er for an avi­a­tion use per­mit. In the mean­time, they will have a ver­ti­port build­ing that could be used for oth­er pur­pos­es.”

The release con­tin­ues, “Sky­portz has part­nered on the con­struc­tion and acti­va­tion of the mod­u­lar ver­ti­ports with a host of spe­cial­ist com­pa­nies that will pro­vide weath­er data, air traf­fic man­age­ment sys­tems, book­ing ser­vices, bat­tery charg­ing, last mile logis­tics and avi­a­tion oper­a­tions. The design released in Paris is the first in a range of mod­u­lar designs to be released this year to suit var­i­ous appli­ca­tions and price points.”

The mod­u­lar “mono­coque alu­mini­um shells” come in three sizes which can be joined togeth­er depend­ing on space require­ments. They range in price from EUR 99,000 to EUR235,000 Euros plus fit-out. Finance pack­ages are avail­able.

Clem New­ton-Brown

New­ton-Brown says, “We will offer a com­plete solu­tion for prop­er­ty own­ers to acti­vate their sites for avi­a­tion. And as a mod­u­lar, ful­ly trans­portable sys­tem we will be able to sup­ply any glob­al mar­ket.”

And con­cludes, “The key to this indus­try is break­ing the nexus between avi­a­tion and exist­ing air­ports. We need to devel­op a net­work of new ver­ti­port sites if the indus­try is to reach its poten­tial, and Sky­portz is ready­ing the land­scape to part­ner with infra­struc­ture investors.”

For more infor­ma­tion

www.skyportz.com

(Images: Sky­portz)