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Blackstone vertiport receives landmark approval
Dec 31, 2023

Blackstone vertiport receives landmark approval

Move over, North Carolina. The Tar Heel State may have been first in flight, but Virginia landed a first for the advanced air mobility industry in September 2023 when the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration granted conditional approval for the nation’s first public-use vertiport, a landing and launch site for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft […]

AURA CEO and co-founder Bill Tolpegin says the company's technology could eventually help shuttle people on air taxis through cities. Photo by Will Schermerhorn
Mar 30, 2023

McLean startup raises $75M for air taxi network

Fritz Lang’s 1927 film “Metropolis” predicted cities with flying cars, while Hanna-Barbera followed that vision 35 years later with “The Jetsons” and its commuter “skyways.” Now, however, air taxis are close to becoming reality. The industry could generate up to $16 billion in new business investments in Virginia and carry as many as 66 million […]

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