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The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has combined general aviation and vertical takeoff and landing aircraft in its reorganized certification department.

The FAA also is allowing small drones to be flown at night and over people.

The UK-based group is concluding low-profile work on a ground-based testbed for electric and hybrid-electric aircraft propulsion systems.

The Chinese eVTOL aircraft developer also has welcomed the country's new standards for express delivery services using unmanned aircraft.

New charter operator Xwing has been delivering vaccines to the Navajo Nation in Arizona.

After making some changes to the Chaparral prototype, Elroy Air expects to resume flight testing of the hybrid-electric cargo transport during 2021.

EmbraerX subsidiary Eve and Airservices Australia are working together to create a scalable UAM framework that could work for any large metropolitan area.

Levitate Capital sees the commercial air mobility sector getting established more slowly than some eVTOL aircraft developers expect, but potentially being a dominant facet of what it calls "the drone economy."

The European 'green aviation' group recently conducted flight trials with a hydrogen-powered hybrid-electric Hy4 technology demonstrator.

Aeristech is providing its electric motor and controller technology to support ZeroAvia's new hybrid hydrogen-electric propulsion system for aircraft.

The UK company is being supported by Honeywell, MagniX, Cambridge Consultants and Nova Systems as it prepares to fly a prototype in 2024.

Hyundai is supporting the LA's public-private alliance to lay the groundwork for eVTOL air taxi service to launch in 2023.

Jaunt wants to offer the potential for long-range trips beyond the 80-mile limits of its all-electric eVTOL family.

The European aerospace group is evaluating a number of potential designs for hydrogen-powered aircraft through its ZeroE program.

The company aims to be able to power a 20-seat aircraft on flights as long as 575 miles by 2023 and is preparing for a 250-mile demonstration flight in a smaller aircraft by March 2021.

Advanced air mobility is targeted to become a major part of Canada air transportation this decade.

The Arch UAM Grand Challenge will provide three cities with a free urban air mobility simulator to help them evaluate plans for integrating eVTOL aircraft into their transportation plans.

The Swiss-Italian company aims to have a full-scale prototype flying in 2022 and be ready to start pre-production in 2023, and service entry in 2025.

Flight testing of the all-electric Alice fixed-wing aircraft was delayed following a fire in the batteries during ground testing in January 2020.

The medical group is looking to buy large fleets of eVTOL aircraft able to fly at least 250 nautical miles and is backing three programs.