Dubai’s vision of flying taxis is no longer just a futuristic concept. The city has reached a major milestone after the UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) granted regulatory certification to VDX, the world’s first purpose-built commercial vertiport for electric air taxi operations. Developed by Skyports Infrastructure, the facility sits adjacent to Dubai International Airport…
Joby Aviation (NYSE:JOBY) and Skyports had a busy couple of weeks in Dubai, a city whose leaders are working nonstop towards it becoming the world’s first city with a fully developed vertiport network for eVTOLs by 2026. An airshow, historic piloted flight, progress on vertiport construction with a “topping-out” ceremony, announcements of new vertiport locations,…
Joby Aviation (NYSE: JOBY) and L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) had announced back in August, 2025 that they teamed up to explore the opportunities for a hybrid VTOL aircraft using gas turbines for low-altitude missions. On August 7, Joby released images of this hybrid-electric eVTOL named “S4-T VTOL“. The S4-T hybrid eVTOL aircraft will be manufactured…
Joby Aviation’s latest international move may not have made front-page headlines in New York or Silicon Valley, but it could prove one of its most strategically important. The California-based eVTOL pioneer has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) worth up to US $250 million with Alatau Advance Air Group Ltd. (AAAG) in Kazakhstan, setting the…
Joby Aviation (NYSE: JOBY), the California-based pioneer in electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, has named NVIDIA as its strategic autonomy partner, thereby becoming the launch aviation customer for NVIDIA’s new IGX Thor platform, designed to power next-generation AI computing at the edge. By teaming with NVIDIA, Joby is gearing up to embed advanced…
Ras Al Khaimah (RAK), UAE — Ras Al Khaimah (RAK), one of the seven Emirates in the UAE, is staking a bold claim in the emerging advanced air mobility space: launching a commercial eVTOL-based air taxi system. In September 2025, Ras Al Khaimah Transport Authority (RAKTA), Joby Aviation, and Skyports Infrastructure announced a strategic Memorandum…
Jeju Island, South Korea’s “Hawaii of the East” will have it’s on network of vertiports developed by London-based Skyports Infrastructure. On September 5th, during the opening ceremony of the 2025 Jeju Global Future Aerospace Confesta, held at Jeju Shinhwa World, a binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Skyports and Jeju Provincial Government, that lays the…
SANTA CRUZ, CA – September 3, 2025 – Joby Aviation has crossed a new threshold in autonomy, completing a landmark U.S. Department of Defense exercise, ReFORPAC 2025 (Resolute Force Pacific), leveraging its SuperPilot technology to log over 7,000 miles of autonomous operations and more than 40 flight hours across the Pacific Ocean and Hawaii. ReFORPAC 2025 During the exercise, Joby’s Superpilot™ autonomous…
We’ll discuss in their pursuit to dramatically reduce noise pollution, how Joby’s Actions Speak Quieter than Words: Joby Aviation (NYSE: JOBY) has been making strides in flight testing, and has been documenting it on social media. As explained by Austin Thai, Acoustics Senior Engineer at Joby Aviation, Joby envisioned their all-electric eVTOL to generate minimal…
Dubai is working nonstop to become the world’s first city with a fully developed vertiport network for eVTOLs by 2026. Once complete, this will pave the way for other cities and areas across the globe to catch up to Dubai and join the worldwide trend of air taxi services within an Urban Air Mobility (UAM)…
On August 4, 2025, Joby Aviation (NYSE:JOBY) struck a deal to acquire Blade Air Mobility’s (NASDAQ:BLDE) urban passenger business, including the Blade brand and operations in the U.S. and Europe, for up to $125 million, with $35 million tied to performance and retention milestones This is a logical step for Joby, which is projected to be a leader in…
Joby Aviation (NYSE: JOBY) and L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) have teamed up to explore the opportunities for a hybrid VTOL aircraft using gas turbines for low-altitude missions. Such hybrid eVTOL aircraft could potentially be manufactured for defense contracts, and provide the capabilities of switching between unmanned autonomous flight and piloted flights. “We have worked closely…
Against the backdrop of the iconic Mount Fuji, Joby Aviation, Inc. (NYSE:JOBY) in a partnership with Toyota that has been 7 years in the making, Joby’s eVTOL aircraft took to the Japanese skies flying quietly under a low acoustic footprint without disturbing the serenity and tranquility of Mount Fuji. Toyota’s Higashi-Fuji Technical Center in Shizuoka,…
Joby finalized the sale of 40,000,000 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $5.05 per share, making Joby possessing a cash balance of over $1 billion. The company held $825 million by the second quarter of 2024. Early this October, Joby received a $500 million in funding from Toyota. This puts the…
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