Orlando International Airport Is Exploring A Future in Advanced Air Mobility
Orlando International Airport is exploring how advanced air mobility could be incorporated into the airport.
The Greater Orlando Aviation Authority hosted an Advanced Air Mobility Industry Day on December 5 to bring industry leaders on-site. Among the technologies that were discussed were electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL), which, true to their name, can take off and land vertically.


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As part of its strategic plan, the aviation authority showed various conceptual plans, including a vertiport and other new facilities.
Aerospace Center of Excellence
One of the proposals would see the airport building an “Aerospace Center of Excellence” on the East Airpark Property. The center would be a place where research and development will be conducted.
Creating such a center would allow the companies within the industries and universities to be in one place and work together. It could also be a place where startups grow.


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“We need resources in order to study what the future looks like,” said Adan Vela, an associate professor at the University of Central Florida. “While we are walking, we need them imagining what it is to run so we can build out the plan for not the next five to 10 years, but 20 years out.”
While there is no hard deadline for building the center, Friel says that the aviation authority will take its lead from the Federal Aviation Administration’s Air Mobility Implementation Plan, which sets its goal of having advanced mobility operations at scale at one or more sites by 2028.


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The next ten years, Friel notes, could be significant for the adoption of advanced air mobility.
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