Volatus Infrastructure to build eVTOL vertiport at Greenport International Airport

Vola­tus Infra­struc­ture has signed a let­ter of intent with Green­port Inter­na­tion­al Air­port and Tech­nol­o­gy Cen­tre to build an eVTOL ver­ti­port as part of planned 5,426-acre phase one devel­op­ment plans. The ver­ti­port will include Vola­tus’ mod­u­lar­ly designed ter­mi­nal build­ing and land­ing pad with its vehi­cle-agnos­tic charg­ing sta­tion for the ver­ti­port to open in ear­ly 2024.

Vola­tus Infra­struc­ture co-founder Grant Fisk com­ment­ed: “Green­port is going to set the tone and cre­ate stan­dards for the US ver­ti­port mar­ket by being one of the first FAA-com­pli­ant, ful­ly oper­a­tional eVTOL ver­ti­ports open.”

Green­port Inter­na­tion­al Air­port CEO Jim Car­pen­ter added: “Green­port Inter­na­tion­al Air­port and Tech­nol­o­gy Cen­tre is excit­ed to bring the sec­ond com­mer­cial Ver­ti­port in the Unit­ed States to Cen­tral Texas and pro­vide the required intel­li­gent infra­struc­ture to sup­port the US AAM indus­try.”

Cen­tral Texas Air­port Hold­ings is devel­op­ing Green­port Inter­na­tion­al Air­port and Tech­nol­o­gy Cen­tre on 5,000 acres in north­west Bas­trop Coun­ty, Texas, 17 miles from Cen­tral Austin in the midst of one of the world’s most impor­tant and rapid­ly grow­ing tech­nol­o­gy and busi­ness hubs.

Phase I will con­sist of state-of-the-art, pri­vate­ly owned Green­port Inter­na­tion­al Air­port, pur­pose-built on 2,605 acres to accom­mo­date larg­er busi­ness jets and anchor the 2,809-acre Green­port Inter­na­tion­al Tech­nol­o­gy Cen­tre, designed to unique­ly appeal to busi­ness­es flood­ing into the Austin Met­ro­pol­i­tan Sta­tis­ti­cal Area.

The air­port will have a 10,000-foot run­way with a planned 2.9 mil­lion square feet of hangar space, nine mil­lion square feet of data cen­tre space, research and devel­op­ment, and small-office build­ing space, much of it with ‘through the fence’ access.

The devel­op­ment will also fea­ture a US Cus­toms Port of Entry. Green­port is a solu­tion to ever-increas­ing demand for space by tech­nol­o­gy, avi­a­tion and defence organ­i­sa­tions plan­ning or con­sid­er­ing loca­tions in Cen­tral Texas. Green­port will employ cut­ting-edge secu­ri­ty sys­tems and a self-con­tained com­mu­ni­ca­tions and pow­er micro­grid.

Last month, Vola­tus Infra­struc­ture part­nered with the Flori­da-based urban air mobil­i­ty show­room and eVTOL deal­er­ship com­pa­ny Aeroau­to to pro­vide glob­al ver­ti­port and charg­ing sta­tion solu­tions for its eVTOL sales and ser­vices cen­tres.

Vola­tus to pro­vide glob­al ver­ti­port charg­ing sta­tions for Aeroau­to eVTOL cen­tres