Volatus Infrastructure has signed an agreement with Bellefonte Airport in Pennsylvania to build a public-use FAA-compliant electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vertiport.
The facility will have "up to" eight landing pads and a charging station and is expected to open with a single landing pad later in 2023.
Volatus said it has a modular-designed vertiport ready which will allow for "quick on-site construction" and "to expand with the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) industry as it grows".
“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 centre of an eVTOL ecosystem for the east coast,” said Grant Fisk, Volatus Infrastructure co-founder.
“We realised 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," Fisk added.
“The Bellefonte Airport was used as one of the first airmail stops at the inception of the Airmail ecosystem,” said John Elnitski, the airport's manager. “It is fitting that Bellefonte Airport will again meet this role for eVTOL use," he concluded.