UrbanLink Air Mobility “Appoints Aircraft Leasing Veteran Raymond Sisson as Company President”

Urban­Link Air Mobil­i­ty, a for­ward-think­ing South Flori­da-based Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) oper­a­tor, announced this week, the appoint­ment of Ray­mond Sis­son as its com­pa­ny Pres­i­dent, reports a press release. 

Sis­son, an expe­ri­enced air­craft leas­ing exec­u­tive who has suc­cess­ful­ly raised over USD15 bil­lion via air­craft acqui­si­tions, is to play a key role in UrbanLink’s expan­sion. He will focus on rais­ing cap­i­tal to finance the com­pa­ny’s ini­tial order for 20 Lil­i­um Jets and spear­head the for­ma­tion of an in-house air­craft leas­ing com­pa­ny to hold UrbanLink’s air­craft orders.

Ed Wegel, UrbanLink’s Founder and Chair­man, com­ment­ed, “Ray is one of the most high­ly respect­ed air­craft leas­ing CEOs and we are delight­ed he’ll be lead­ing our team to raise the nec­es­sary fund­ing to grow our fleet to 100+ eVTOL air­craft over the next three years.”

He con­tin­ued, “Ray’s lead­er­ship, expe­ri­ence and strong rela­tion­ships with both air­craft equi­ty and debt providers world­wide make him the ide­al choice to devel­op our own in-house air­craft lessor, which will finance our eVTOL air­craft and pro­vide capa­bil­i­ties to oth­er fly­ing taxi air­lines world­wide.”

Sis­son is a 35-year vet­er­an of the air­line and air­craft leas­ing sec­tors. He has held sev­er­al high-pro­file posi­tions includ­ing:-

: Senior Vice Pres­i­dent at GE Com­mer­cial Air­craft Ser­vices (GECAS).

: Chief Com­mer­cial Offi­cer of SR Tech­nics, one of the world’s lead­ing air­craft MROs.

: CEO of AWAS, an air­craft lessor, which he grew from USD5 bil­lion to USD12.5 bil­lion in air­craft assets with a fleet of over 300 air­craft. 

Urban­Link has Com­mit­ted to Pur­chase 20 Lil­i­um Jets with Sched­uled Pre-Deliv­ery Pay­ments

Addi­tion­al­ly, Sis­son was MD at Cred­it Suisse, where he estab­lished its air­craft leas­ing sub­sidiary. Present­ly, he is the CEO of Tail­winds Avi­a­tion, which has raised USD500 mil­lion and is in the process of rais­ing an addi­tion­al USD2 bil­lion in equi­ty for com­mer­cial air­craft acqui­si­tions. Sis­son holds a degree from Buck­nell Uni­ver­si­ty; an MBA from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go; and a JD from George­town Law School.

He enthused, “I am excit­ed to join Urban­Link as Pres­i­dent as we pre­pare for our first eVTOL deliv­er­ies in 18 months. To fuel UrbanLink’s growth, our goal is to raise over USD1 bil­lion, and I am con­fi­dent we have the team in place to achieve this.”

The release explains, “Urban­Link will lead the entry into ser­vice and man­age­ment of AAM in South Flori­da, and will expand to oth­er mar­kets includ­ing Los Ange­les and the Caribbean.”

Last month, Urban­Link announced its part­ner­ship with Lil­i­um and a com­mit­ment to pur­chase 20 Jets with sched­uled pre-deliv­ery pay­ments. The com­pa­ny is the first air­line in the U.S to ful­ly com­mit to inte­grat­ing eVTOL air­craft into its fleet with entry into rev­enue ser­vice by Sum­mer 2026.

Urban­Link will com­mence the Part 135 cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process, sub­ject to all FAA and DOT approvals, over the next months. Addi­tion­al­ly, the com­pa­ny has signed Let­ters of Intent with major strate­gic ver­ti­port devel­op­ers, fur­ther solid­i­fy­ing its com­mit­ment to advanc­ing the future of air mobil­i­ty. 

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.flyurbanlink.com

(Top image: Ray­mond Sis­son)

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