Australian vertiport company, Skyportz, has expressed an interest for small retail investors to purchase equity in the business.
“Skyportz has amazing community support,” said Clem Newton-Brown, CEO of Skyportz. “We wanted to give individuals who might otherwise not have access own shares in private companies the opportunity to join us as part-owners of our business.”
Revealing that Skyportz already has 500 shareholders who invested in the early days, he added: “We are now at the stage that there is a lot more certainty. The front runner aircrafts are close to certification and there is strong policy support in Australia from all levels of government. Also, our air regulator, CASA is preparing the skies for this revolution in aviation.”
With its focus on breaking the nexus between aviation and airports and enabling property owners to activate their sites with vertiports, Skyportz has been present in the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) sector for the last five years.
“There is an enormous interest from the property industry to help us break the nexus between airports and aviation,” he said. “We are working with governments, air regulators and communities to establish the parameters for the introduction of vertiport infrastructure and short take-off and landing runways.”
Commenting that it doesn’t matter which OEM strikes gold with their air taxi designs, Newton-Brown noted highlighted that they will all need vertiport networks to enable them to operate.
“If all the aircraft do is fly from airports and helipads then there will be no revolution,” he said as he suggested that investors who have backed OEMs are now realising there has been under-investment in the ecosystem that underlies the promises of AAM on demand.
Image: Skyportz vertiport in a box concept. (C) Skyportz
