Joby Partners With Aviation High School to Train eVTOL Technicians

The New York City high school program is part of the company’s plan to prepare services and infrastructure for electric aircraft.

Jonathan Welsh

Tuesday, December 06, 2022 at 12:55 PM ET

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Aviation High School's maintenance classroom, called the main hangar, houses a diversity of aircraft including antiques like a Stearman biplane and a Bell 47 helicopter. [Credit: Jonathan Welsh]

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Joby Aviation has partnered with New York City's Aviation High School to train students for careers in the emerging electric aviation industry, focusing on eVTOL aircraft maintenance and management.
The collaboration integrates eVTOL technology into the school's curriculum, providing students with access to Joby's online private pilot ground school and virtual reality flight simulators.
This initiative prepares a skilled workforce for the "electric age of flight," anticipating future needs for eVTOL operations, such as air taxi services in major cities like New York.

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As electric propulsion gains traction as a potential next wave in aviation technology, hundreds of high school students in New York are getting a head start on maintaining and managing the eVTOL aircraft that could be shuttling passengers around their city in a few years.

Joby Aviation, Inc. (NYSE: JOBY), a company developing eVTOL vehicles for air taxis and similar passenger operations, said it entered a partnership with Aviation High School to train aspiring aircraft maintenance technicians and aerospace leaders for careers in “the electric age of flight.”