Signature Aviation, the owner of the world’s largest network of private aviation terminals, could be among the first to embrace hybrid-electric aircraft that promise to reshape regional aviation by moving operations away from airports.
The FBO, which already has partnerships with electric air taxi manufacturers such as Archer Aviation and Beta Technologies, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Italy’s UrbanV and Electra—whose EL9 Ultra Short is built to operate from soccer field-sized spaces—to turn the latter’s vision of “direct aviation” to reality.
