Wisk and Signature Aviation to Accelerate Autonomous Advanced Air Mobility Infrastructure in the US and beyond

 Wisk and Sig­na­ture Avi­a­tion have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) to proac­tive­ly devel­op the infra­struc­ture and oper­a­tional frame­work for autonomous Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) oper­a­tions, in loca­tions such as Hous­ton, Los Ange­les and Mia­mi.

The col­lab­o­ra­tion includes strate­gic plan­ning efforts to iden­ti­fy and assess the fea­si­bil­i­ty of ver­ti­port devel­op­ment loca­tions com­pat­i­ble with Wisk’s autonomous AAM oper­a­tions — a cru­cial part of plan­ning for auton­o­my now.

This includes con­duct­ing detailed exer­cis­es to eval­u­ate the com­mer­cial, finan­cial, reg­u­la­to­ry, tech­ni­cal, and oper­a­tional process­es required to enable Wisk’s autonomous oper­a­tions at spe­cif­ic Sig­na­ture Avi­a­tion loca­tions.

Dan Dal­ton, VP of Glob­al Part­ner­ships at Wisk: “We are very excit­ed to col­lab­o­rate with Sig­na­ture Avi­a­tion to pio­neer the future of autonomous flight. As the world’s largest net­work of pri­vate avi­a­tion ter­mi­nals, Sig­na­ture’s for­ward-lean­ing approach to avi­a­tion mod­ern­iza­tion aligns with our vision.

“Togeth­er, we’re build­ing the robust infra­struc­ture and inte­grat­ed net­work essen­tial for safe, scaled oper­a­tions, start­ing with our focused efforts at Elling­ton. This col­lab­o­ra­tion rep­re­sents a crit­i­cal path­way toward bring­ing autonomous air trav­el to com­mu­ni­ties.”

As a tan­gi­ble first step, Wisk and Sig­na­ture Avi­a­tion have already ini­ti­at­ed a project at Sig­na­ture Avi­a­tion’s facil­i­ties at Elling­ton Air­port (EFD) in Hous­ton, Texas.

This work focus­es on devel­op­ing ver­ti­port con­cepts, and defin­ing poten­tial lay­outs, oper­a­tional work­flows, and infra­struc­ture require­ments, includ­ing for Wisk’s Gen 6 air­craft and pas­sen­ger expe­ri­ence.

The part­ner­ship with Sig­na­ture will also estab­lish a frame­work for poten­tial future com­mer­cial agree­ments.

The work at EFD rep­re­sents fur­ther expan­sion of Wisk’s pres­ence in Texas and col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Hous­ton Air­port Sys­tem and City of Sug­ar Land.

Derek DeCross, Chief Com­mer­cial Offi­cer, Sig­na­ture Avi­a­tion, added: “Our part­ner­ship with Wisk high­lights anoth­er sig­nif­i­cant step in our con­tin­ued inno­va­tion and ded­i­cat­ed sus­tain­abil­i­ty lead­er­ship with­in avi­a­tion.

“Advanced air mobil­i­ty rep­re­sents a trans­for­ma­tive oppor­tu­ni­ty to shape the future of our indus­try and togeth­er with Wisk, we are proac­tive­ly explor­ing the infra­struc­ture and strate­gic plan­ning nec­es­sary to expand our excep­tion­al, for­ward-think­ing guest expe­ri­ence across our net­work in the future.”

This part­ner­ship under­scores the shared vision of Wisk and Sig­na­ture Avi­a­tion to build a safe, effi­cient, and com­mer­cial­ly viable autonomous AAM ecosys­tem that will enable region­al trans­porta­tion.