U.S: GOAA Chosen as Florida’s AAM Test Site

Cen­tral Flori­da “is poised to become the lead­ing edge in the devel­op­ment of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM),” reports a press release. Four days before Christ­mas Day, a bill was intro­duced into the Flori­da House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives des­ig­nat­ing the Greater Orlan­do Avi­a­tion Author­i­ty (GOAA) as the AAM test site for Flori­da.

Devel­op­ing a net­work of eVTOL air­craft and ver­ti­port facil­i­ties is essen­tial for the suc­cess­ful ini­ti­a­tion of the AAM indus­try, pro­vid­ing res­i­dents and vis­i­tors access to a rapid and flex­i­ble mode of local trans­porta­tion. “Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty,”  con­tin­ues the release, “could also serve as a plat­form for med­ical trans­porta­tion, emer­gency ser­vices, law enforce­ment and dis­as­ter relief.”

Kevin J. Thibault, CEO of GOAA, com­ment­ed, “The Avi­a­tion Author­i­ty is grate­ful for the sup­port of State Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Doug Bank­son, who recog­nised the impor­tant assets avail­able at our facil­i­ties.” Adding, “As an indus­try leader in mul­ti­modal con­nec­tiv­i­ty, Orlan­do Inter­na­tion­al Air­port is a nat­ur­al fit to func­tion as a test site.”

Kevin J. Thibault

The release states, “By work­ing in con­cert with the Flori­da Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion, the state’s oth­er lead­ing air­ports and the man­u­fac­tur­ers of these spe­cialised air­craft, the com­bined exper­tise will re-invent the dynam­ic of short­er dis­tance, point-to-point air trans­port.”

Back­ground

GOAA oper­ates Orlan­do Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (MCO) and Orlan­do Exec­u­tive Air­port (ORL), two of Florida’s pre­mier air trav­el gate­ways. MCO serves more than 50 mil­lion annu­al pas­sen­gers in its Main Ter­mi­nal and Ter­mi­nal C. ORL is con­ve­nient­ly locat­ed just miles from down­town Orlan­do and pro­vides impor­tant gen­er­al avi­a­tion access to the heart of the region.

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https://www.orlandoairports.net/

(Top image: Orlan­do Inter­na­tion­al Air­port ‑Cred­it: Avfoil News)