Textron Systems’ Aerosonde UAS completes first commercial-airspace vertiport-to-vertiport flight in Virginia
TXT•Aerosonde UAS completes vertiport-to-vertiport flight in Virginia
Textron Systems’ Aerosonde UAS completed what it called the first commercial-airspace UAS flight using vertiports for takeoff and landing.
The demonstration supported Virginia’s Advanced Air Mobility Smart Airspace program with MAAP at Virginia Tech, an FAA-designated UAS test site.
Aerosonde Mk. 4.7 VTOL flew nearly 150 nautical miles from Blacksburg, Virginia, to Textron Systems’ Aerosonde Center of Excellence in Blackstone.
The flight lasted about 2.5 hours, highlighting vertiport-to-vertiport operations for advanced air mobility research.
