UrbanV and Alatau Advance Air Group to Design Test Center in Kazakhstan And Enable Testing and Demo Flights of eVTOL Aircraft

UrbanV and Alatau Advance Air Group (AAAG) have announced a new inter­na­tion­al col­lab­o­ra­tion to design Kaza­khstan’s first ver­ti­port net­work.

The ini­tia­tive will ini­tial­ly focus on the emerg­ing Smart City of Alatau and the met­ro­pol­i­tan area of Almaty, Kaza­khstan’s largest city, to sup­port the coun­try’s ambi­tion to become a lead­ing hub for next-gen­er­a­tion mobil­i­ty in Cen­tral Asia.

The first project will be the design of a Test-Cen­ter in Alatau City, a ded­i­cat­ed facil­i­ty that will serve as the foun­da­tion­al infra­struc­ture to enable ear­ly test­ing and demon­stra­tion flights with eVTOL air­craft.

AAAG has recent­ly strength­ened this com­mit­ment by sign­ing a Let­ter of Intent with Joby Avi­a­tion, one of the glob­al pio­neers of eVTOL tech­nol­o­gy.

Ivan Bas­sato, Chair­man of UrbanV, said: “We are delight­ed to work with AAAG on a project that con­tributes to build­ing a safer, more con­nect­ed, and more sus­tain­able form of mobil­i­ty. Kaza­khstan is invest­ing with ambi­tion and vision in the future of AAM, and UrbanV is ready to bring its inter­na­tion­al expe­ri­ence to sup­port this impor­tant trans­for­ma­tion.”

Through this part­ner­ship, UrbanV and AAAG will work togeth­er on the design of a ver­ti­port net­work. This includes the net­work demand analy­sis, the pro­fil­ing of poten­tial routes, the assess­ment of attrac­tive loca­tions across Alatau and Almaty and the pre­lim­i­nary eval­u­a­tion of air­space, oper­a­tional mod­els, and tech­no­log­i­cal require­ments.

UrbanV fur­ther expands its inter­na­tion­al pres­ence by enter­ing the Cen­tral Asian mar­ket with its exper­tise in ver­ti­port plan­ning, design, and oper­a­tions.

The col­lab­o­ra­tion will include stake­hold­er engage­ment and reg­u­la­to­ry sup­port to help shape the nation­al frame­work for Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty, enabling the future roll­out of AAM ser­vices across the region.

This ini­tia­tive is also aligned with UrbanV’s broad­er strat­e­gy to devel­op safe, effi­cient and next-gen­er­a­tion ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture capa­ble of sup­port­ing future eVTOL ser­vices, con­tribut­ing to the glob­al tran­si­tion toward clean and inno­v­a­tive air mobil­i­ty.

As part of this effort, UrbanV will also col­lab­o­rate with Korea Air­ports Cor­po­ra­tion (KAC), mark­ing the acti­va­tion of one of the key com­mit­ments of the MoU signed last year, which fore­sees close coop­er­a­tion between UrbanV and KAC in over­seas ver­ti­port devel­op­ment – shar­ing exper­tise, infor­ma­tion, and project insights to sup­port the coor­di­nat­ed devel­op­ment of emerg­ing AAM ecosys­tems.