Sun, Feb 05, 2023
1st of 8 Landing Pads and Charging Installations Operational by 2024
Volatus Infrastructure has reached an agreement with Bellefonte Airport for the construction of a public use vertiport.
The public use airport is located in Centre County, Pennsylvania . Eventually, Bellefonte will see the installation of up to 8 landing pads for electric VTOL aircraft, each equipped with charging stations and the necessary infrastructure to support them. The first vertiport is expected to be operational later this year.
Volatus is picking up speed in the vertiport industry, owing to their modular design and scalable growth options. Airport management looking for quick on-site construction and scalable growth seem to find Volantus a prime partner to kickstart their AAM ambitions. In Bellefonte's case, they'll start with an initial, single-pad installation, with additional headroom for another 7 built in for rapid growth as use of the spot increases.
“A project that started out as a way to get fans to Penn State games without sitting in traffic on US 80 and State Route 322, has turned into what will become the center of an eVTOL ecosystem for the East Coast,” said Grant Fisk, Volatus Infrastructure Co-Founder. “We realized that Bellefonte airport is within 90 miles of all the major cities so it just makes sense to expand this location which will lay the foundation for the eVTOL infrastructure ecosystem for the East Coast.”
“The Bellefonte Airport was used as one of the first airmail stops at the inception of the Airmail ecosystem,” said John Elnitski, Bellefonte Airport Manager. “It is fitting that Bellefonte Airport will again meet this role for eVTOL use.”
More News
Presented Just Three Weeks After its “Best and Final” Offer Three weeks ago, Textron Aviation presented its “best and final” offer to its striking machinist>[...]
After The Airplane Exited The Left Side Of The Runway It Continued Into A Tree... On September 25, 2024, at 1833 central daylight time, a Cirrus SR22 airplane, N565CP, was substant>[...]
“Our focus this decade is to win the NASA Commercial LEO Destination (CLD) contract and build the successor to the International Space Station. To achieve this, we will first>[...]
Air Carrier District Office An FAA field office serving an assigned geographical area, staffed with Flight Standards personnel serving the aviation industry and the general public >[...]
Aero Linx: The Vertical Flight Society (VFS) The Vertical Flight Society, formerly the American Helicopter Society (AHS), is the non-profit technical society for the advancement of>[...]
Textron Proposes New Contract to Striking Machinists
See All