Skyportz’s Aeroberm™ vertipad solution to be introduced in Japan as part of partnership with AirMobility

Air­Mo­bil­i­ty and Sky­portz have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing to advance the intro­duc­tion of Skyportz’s patent­ed mod­u­lar ver­ti­pad the Aer­oberm™ into the Japan­ese mar­ket.

Announced today (Tues­day), the part­ner­ship will see Air­Mo­bil­i­ty sup­port Sky­portz and con­tribute to the devel­op­ment of ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture for eVTOL air­craft and indus­tri­al drones in Japan.

As the com­mer­cial launch of eVTOL air­craft and large indus­tri­al drone approach­es, the devel­op­ment of ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture is accel­er­at­ing world­wide. Man­ag­ing down­wash gen­er­at­ed dur­ing take-off and land­ing, reduc­ing noise, and enabling rapid response to bat­tery fires are crit­i­cal fac­tors in gain­ing com­mu­ni­ty accep­tance and enabling the wide­spread deploy­ment of ver­ti­ports.

Air­Mo­bil­i­ty aims to real­ize safe and effi­cient ver­ti­port oper­a­tions by com­bin­ing the Aer­oberm™ with its pro­pri­etary ver­ti­port automa­tion sys­tem, AirV­port.

Clem New­ton-Brown, CEO, Sky­portz, said: “We are delight­ed to enter the Japan­ese mar­ket through our part­ner­ship with Air­Mo­bil­i­ty Inc. Japan is one of the world’s most for­ward-look­ing mar­kets for Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty, and we are con­fi­dent that Air­Mo­bil­i­ty’s net­work and exper­tise will be a sig­nif­i­cant asset in deploy­ing Sky­portz’s tech­nol­o­gy in Japan.”

Hisas­hi Asai, Pres­i­dent & CEO, Air­Mo­bil­i­ty, added: “We see Sky­portz’s Aer­oberm™ as an essen­tial piece of phys­i­cal infra­struc­ture for increas­ing the social accep­tance of eVTOL and drone oper­a­tions. By com­bin­ing it with our pro­pri­etary AirV­port, we believe we can real­ize safe and effi­cient ver­ti­port oper­a­tions where soft­ware and hard­ware work in con­cert.”