TWO WEEKS TO OHIO: Pivotal’s Blackfly to take to the skies at eVTOL Insights’ North America Conference 2026

eVTOL Insights can con­firm Piv­otal will fly its Black­fly fixed-wing eVTOL air­craft at its upcom­ing North Amer­i­ca Con­fer­ence & Awards, which is being held at the Nation­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Cen­ter of Excel­lence (NAAMCE).

It will be the first time an air­craft has flown at an eVTOL Insights’ con­fer­ence and will give del­e­gates a rare oppor­tu­ni­ty to see Black­fly up close and wit­ness a flight around Spring­field-Beck­ley Munic­i­pal Air­port.

Tak­ing place from April 29th to May 1st, the 2026 event is shap­ing up to be eVTOL Insights’ biggest event to date. It will fea­ture two indus­try site vis­its, a full-day con­fer­ence and awards cer­e­mo­ny, plus pre-event net­work­ing drinks. The pro­gram sched­ule is as fol­lows:

Wednes­day, April 29th 2026
4pm to 6pm ET: Two-hour pri­vate site vis­it of NAAMCE
6pm to 8pm ET: Pre-event Drinks Recep­tion at NAAMCE

Thurs­day, April 30th 2026
9am to 5pm ET: eVTOL Insights’ North Amer­i­ca Con­fer­ence (reg­is­tra­tion from 8am ET)
5.30pm to 6.30pm ET: eVTOL Insights’ Glob­al AAM Awards 2026

Fri­day, May 1st 2026
09.30am to 11.30am ET: Planned site vis­it to Hartzell Pro­peller HQ, Piqua, OH.

Why Should you Attend?

• The oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­nect with thought lead­ers, inno­va­tors and influ­encers shap­ing the glob­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty mar­ket, with net­work­ing drinks planned on April 29th and after the con­fer­ence on April 30th
• Get the oppor­tu­ni­ty to have unprece­dent­ed access to NAAM­CE’s state-of-the-art facil­i­ties, allow­ing you to learn direct­ly from the pio­neer­ing busi­ness­es and research teams work­ing on the future of eVTOL tech­nol­o­gy and asso­ci­at­ed advanced air mobil­i­ty sys­tems.
• Hear first hand about Hartzell Pro­peller’s rich avi­a­tion his­to­ry and its impact in the emerg­ing Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty space

Get your Tick­ets

Tick­ets are cur­rent­ly on sale for $950, which includes entry to the con­fer­ence and awards, as well as the two site vis­its. Stu­dent con­ces­sions cost $200 and tick­ets to attend just the awards cer­e­mo­ny on April 30th also cost $200. You can buy yours by vis­it­ing our Eventbrite page.

Please note: We have to pro­vide an attendee list for the site vis­its to NAAMCE and Hartzell Pro­peller no lat­er than Fri­day, April 24th. Any tick­et pur­chas­es made after this date might not be able to join these vis­its.

For any fur­ther ques­tions about this event, please con­tact Jason Pritchard, Exec­u­tive Edi­tor at eVTOL Insights, via email at jason@evtolinsights.com

EVENT AGENDA (Last updat­ed April 15th, 2026)