UK drone delivery and urban air mobility (UAM) infrastructure company Skyports has used creative ways to secure work from clients to design and develop future electric takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi vertiports. Now it has tried an inside-the-box method it hadn’t before: buying an existing helicopter terminal to repurpose for itself.
Skyports says it acquired the east London facility formerly known as Falcon Heliport for an undisclosed amount, and has renamed it Skyports London Heliport. Located just minutes away from the capital’s Canary Wharf financial district, the terminal is only one of two heliports in London – but will doubtless be among the city’s many future vertiports servicing eVTOL air taxis and other UAM vehicles. Awaiting those futuristic aircraft and services, the company plans on letting choppers continue to haunt the premises for a few more years.
Skyports has kept busy over the past two years wooing clients for the design,…
