Winners Revealed at eVTOL Insights’ Global AAM Awards 2026 Following Its North America Conference at NAAMCE

eVTOL Insights is proud to announce the win­ners of its 2026 Glob­al AAM Awards, rec­og­niz­ing the indi­vid­u­als, teams and com­pa­nies which have demon­strat­ed out­stand­ing achieve­ment, inno­va­tion, and lead­er­ship in the glob­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty mar­ket.

The awards cel­e­brate progress across the indus­try, from tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments and infra­struc­ture devel­op­ment to ecosys­tem col­lab­o­ra­tion and mar­ket lead­er­ship. This year’s win­ners rep­re­sent the cut­ting edge of sus­tain­able avi­a­tion and urban air mobil­i­ty solu­tions.

Each win­ner was select­ed by a judg­ing pan­el of indus­try experts, based on cri­te­ria includ­ing tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion, scal­a­bil­i­ty, envi­ron­men­tal impact, and con­tri­bu­tion to the advance­ment of the AAM ecosys­tem.

The awards were pre­sent­ed after eVTOL Insights’ North Amer­i­ca Con­fer­ence, which took place yes­ter­day (Thurs­day) at the Nation­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Cen­ter of Excel­lence (NAAMCE).

The event also rep­re­sent­ed the first time an eVTOL air­craft has flown at an eVTOL Insights’ event, with Tim Lum pilot­ing his Piv­otal Black­fly eVTOL air­craft around out­side the hangar and giv­ing del­e­gates a rare oppor­tu­ni­ty to see elec­tric flight in action.

2026 Global AAM Award Winners

Team Categories

Best Place to Work
Win­ner: Hori­zon Air­craft

Best Aware­ness Rais­ers
High­ly Com­mend­ed: Hon­ey­well & UAM Geo­mat­ics Inc.
Win­ner: Sky­Drive

Small Mar­ket­ing Team of the Year
Win­ner: Archer

Large Engi­neer­ing Team of the Year
Win­ner: Wisk

Small Design Team of the Year
Win­ner: Olsen Actu­a­tors & Dri­ves

Small Engi­neer­ing Team of the Year
High­ly Com­mend­ed: Hori­zon Air­craft
Win­ner: Piv­otal

Autonomous Flight Inno­va­tion Award
Win­ner: Wisk

Infra­struc­ture Inno­va­tion of the Year Award
Win­ner: Sun­Trax — Flori­da DOT

Train­ing and Work­force Devel­op­ment Award
Win­ner: Joby Avi­a­tion

Individual Categories

Leader of the Year
High­ly Com­mend­ed: Adam Gold­stein — Archer
Win­ner: Dan Sloat — AAM Insti­tute

Tech­nol­o­gy Leader of the Year
Win­ner: Tom Muniz — Archer

Test Pilot of the Year
Win­ner: James ‘Bud­dy’ Den­ham

Out­stand­ing Con­tri­bu­tion
Win­ner: Huazhi Hu — EHang

Company Categories

AAM Soft­ware Inno­va­tion of the Year
Win­ner: XSTAR — Alci­fo

Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Pio­neer
Win­ner: Hon­ey­well

Glob­al Ecosys­tem Part­ner of the Year
Win­ner: NAAMCE

Com­pa­ny of the Year (50 — 100 Employ­ees)
Win­ner: AIR EV

Com­pa­ny of the Year (100+ Employ­ees)
Win­ner: Viasat

Medaille D’Or
Win­ner: Hon­ey­well