Vertical Aerospace To Bring its Valo eVTOL Aircraft to Miami Next Month and Shares Example Routes in Region

Ver­ti­cal Aero­space will bring its next-gen­er­a­tion elec­tric air­craft Valo to Mia­mi, where it will be on pub­lic dis­play from Feb­ru­ary 24th to 25th.

The city is the sec­ond in North Amer­i­ca to wel­come Valo, after Ver­ti­cal brought Valo to the Big Apple last month.

The air­craft will be on pub­lic dis­play in Mia­mi as part of iCon­nec­tions, the world’s largest cap­i­tal intro­duc­tion event, at the fol­low­ing times at Bass Muse­um in Collins Park, 2100 Collins Avenue, Mia­mi Beach, FL:

• Tues­day, Feb­ru­ary 24th: 9am – 4pm ET
• Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 25th: 9am – 6.30pm ET

Vis­i­tors are invit­ed to see the air­craft up close, meet the team behind its devel­op­ment, and explore how Valo could reshape trav­el across South Flori­da.

Designed to fly up to 100 miles at speeds of up to 150 mph, the air­craft fea­tures a pre­mi­um cab­in for four pas­sen­gers, panoram­ic win­dows and gen­er­ous space for lug­gage and pets. Ver­ti­cal is also devel­op­ing a hybrid-elec­tric vari­ant, tar­get­ed to fly up to 1,000 miles.

“A New Per­spec­tive on Mia­mi”

Ver­ti­cal is work­ing with oper­at­ing and infra­struc­ture part­ners to explore a net­work for its elec­tric and hybrid-elec­tric air­craft across South Flori­da that would trans­form key jour­neys. Exam­ple hubs and routes include:

Coastal Cor­ri­dor — Mia­mi to Palm Beach 

• MIA ↔ PBI | ~65 miles | ~36 min­utes
• A pre­dictable alter­na­tive to a 90+ minute dri­ve, con­nect­ing South Florida’s two most dynam­ic coastal hubs

 Pre­mi­um event access – Opa Loc­ka to Wat­son Island 

• Opa Loc­ka (OPF) ↔ Wat­son Island | ~15 miles | ~9 min­utes
• Con­nect­ing South Florida’s busiest pri­vate avi­a­tion hub to the region’s clos­est land­ing zone to Mia­mi Beach — ide­al for major events, cruise depar­tures and water­front

Busi­ness and lifestyle cor­ri­dor – Boca to Wat­son Island

• Boca ↔ Wat­son Island | ~42 miles | ~23 min­utes  
• Con­nect­ing Boca’s busi­ness, golf and res­i­den­tial com­mu­ni­ties with Mia­mi Beach

Region­al City Link — Mia­mi to Fort Laud­erdale

• MIA ↔ FLL | ~21 miles | ~13 min­utes
• Con­nect­ing Mia­mi and Fort Lauderdale’s busi­ness dis­tricts, cruise ter­mi­nals and avi­a­tion hubs in under 15 min­utes

Mia­mi-Dade Coun­ty May­or, Daniel­la Levine Cava, said: “I am thrilled about Ver­ti­cal Aerospace’s plans to make Mia­mi-Dade Coun­ty one of the first areas in the coun­try with advanced air mobil­i­ty.

“This devel­op­ment moves our com­mu­ni­ty clos­er to the future of air trav­el, enhanced con­nec­tiv­i­ty, and new eco­nom­ic oppor­tu­ni­ties for Mia­mi-Dade Coun­ty.

“MIA and our gen­er­al avi­a­tion air­ports are some of the busiest air­ports in the coun­try for pri­vate avi­a­tion, which makes Mia­mi-Dade Coun­ty the per­fect launch site for AAM.”

Stu­art Simp­son, CEO at Ver­ti­cal Aero­space, added: “Valo offers a new way to expe­ri­ence Mia­mi — turn­ing time lost in traf­fic into time gained. Imag­ine land­ing near Fort Laud­erdale and reach­ing your tee time with­out touch­ing I‑95. Leav­ing Mia­mi for Palm Beach after lunch and being back for sun­set.

“Or tak­ing a qui­et elec­tric flight over Bis­cayne Bay as the sky­line turns gold. As elec­tric avi­a­tion moves clos­er to com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion, we are work­ing with our cus­tomers and oper­at­ing part­ners to deliv­er real-world con­nec­tions that are faster, clean­er and designed around the pas­sen­ger.”

Explor­ing Net­work Part­ner­ships

Ver­ti­cal is work­ing with lead­ing infra­struc­ture part­ners to explore the devel­op­ment of key routes in the area for its air­line and oper­a­tor cus­tomers, includ­ing the joint ven­ture between UrbanV — a glob­al leader in Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) infra­struc­ture — and Sig­na­ture Avi­a­tion, the world’s largest net­work of pri­vate avi­a­tion ter­mi­nals; Sky­ports Infra­struc­ture, a leader in the design, build and oper­a­tion of ver­ti­ports for heli­copters and eVTOL air­craft; and Ver­ti­ports by Atlantic Avi­a­tion.