Archer and Atlantic Aviation, a fixed-base operator (FBO) network and aircraft services provider, announced today a signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) focused on establishing infrastructure sites for eVTOL operations across Los Angeles, Northern California, South Florida and New York City regions, reports a press release.
The collaboration will focus on electrifying several of Atlantic’s present aviation assets to support future electric aircraft operations, including Archer’s Midnight eVTOL across four key launch markets.
The release explains, “The companies plan to leverage the parties’ existing relationships with Beta Technologies to install its interoperable rapid recharging systems. Beta’s chargers utilise the Combined Charging System (CCS) that was recently endorsed by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) and is being utilised by several top original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) across the industry.”
The partners aim to launch the services across initial locations in 2025 and then expand them to other locations across Atlantic’s major portfolio as Archer’s aircraft manufacturing scales.
Nikhil Goel, Archer’s Chief Commercial Officer, remarked, “These initial eVTOL vertiport locations will provide a launching pad for future expansion across the Atlantic’s portfolio and ensure that our Midnight aircraft has safe, centrally located landing facilities for our future passengers.”
John Redcay, Atlantic Chief Commercial and Sustainability Officer, added, “We are impressed with Archer’s technology and array of world-class partners including United Airlines. We are excited to work together to electrify our aviation assets to enable quiet and sustainable urban air travel in cities across the U.S.”
Background
Atlantic Aviation offers customers more than 100 FBO locations across North America including those in Hawaii and the Caribbean. The company’s facilities cover a wide range of aircraft ground handling and corporate flight support, including fuelling and line services, ground transportation, catering, hangar, de-icing, and ramp space.
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