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(Urban Air Mobility News) – China’s EHang anticipates the first passenger-carrying commercial electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft flights soon. While 2026 is still on track to be the launch year for the industry outside China, there are still complex regulatory challenges to overcome.

The Alphabet subsidiary is expanding its residential drone package-delivery service in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The maker of the Valo electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft notes advances in flight testing and manufacturing along with increased orders in its 2025 Annual Report.

(Space.com) – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans in 2028 to launch Skyfall, a mission that will send six small helicopters to the Red Planet aboard a spacecraft that uses nuclear electric propulsion.

(DEFCROS News) – The new, Web-based academy will train operators in numerous rotary unmanned aircraft system (UAS) skills and platforms.

(PR Newswire) – California-based ANELLO Photonics and Australian company Q-CTRL are developing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation system that works in environments with degraded, jammed, or unavailable GPS service.

(KSHB) – Officials at Kansas City International Airport (KMCI) in Missouri are using drones and artificial intelligence (AI) to capture images that can improve the city’s ability to assess storm damage to local homes. Eventually, they want to use the technology to predict severe weather before it happens.

VAI brought together nearly 200 members from across the vertical aviation community for a Mar. 23 member roundtable on the operational and safety impacts of recent changes to US airspace rules.

The VAI Southeast Asia Aviation Safety Conference will feature sessions on advanced aeronautical decision-making with Bruce Webb of Airbus Helicopters and VAI’s Chris Hill; VFR best practices, decision-making and IIMC (inadvertent entry into instrument meteorological conditions), and estimating distance with Michael Becker of Becker Helicopters Pilot Academy; and much more. The conference takes place 27–29 May in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia.