Skyports picks UK’s Wescott Space Cluster as its European HQ

Irrepressible drone services and urban air mobility (UAM) infrastructure company Skyports is on the move yet again, this time tapping England’s Wescott Space Cluster as its European headquarters and center of excellence.

In addition to its work conceiving and constructing next-generation UAM vertiports in countries around the world, London-based Skyports will be operating its global drone service activities from Westcott Space Cluster. The facility is located near Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and hosts a wide range of cutting-edge tech companies and research units, including many active in aerospace and aviation. In basing its European headquarters in the cluster, Skyports says it will tap into assets available there to develop its range and performance of UAV services.

Just as importantly, Skyports will use the Westcott Space Cluster as a command center to remotely operate its global beyond visual line sight (BVLOS) drone flights. That decision…