GAMA has increased membership to more than 120 as it continues to fill out its associate category with companies jumping into the autonomous, electric, and/or hybrid markets. Seven more companies recently joined the organization, six of which are associate members.

In the full-membership category, Seattle-based Raisbeck Engineering joined GAMA’s membership roll. Recently acquired by private equity firm Acorn Growth Companies, Raisbeck produces performance-enhancement upgrades for commercial and general aviation aircraft.

New associate members included Los Angeles-based electric aircraft developer Ampaire; Robotic Skies, an Albuquerque, New Mexico, firm seeking to develop a network of repair stations focused on emerging unmanned aviation systems and urban mobility; Bruchsal, Germany-based Volocopter, one of the earliest developers of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft; and ZeroAvia of Hollister, California, which is developing hybrid-electric propulsion technologies. Other new associate members are Aviage, a Shanghai-based joint venture between GE and AVIC focused on the developing avionics and aircraft systems for the emerging aviation mobility market, and Hayward, California-based SkyRyse, which is developing autonomous helicopter technologies.

“We are proud to have a long established and highly respected company like Raisbeck Engineering join as a full-member company,” said GAMA president and CEO Pete Bunce. “We’re also excited to welcome six companies to our associate membership, a category we created in 2015 to represent companies engaged in the rapidly growing and revolutionary sector of general aviation vehicle design and maintenance.”