Portuguese helicopter operator Helibravo Aviação and vertiport developer Bluenest, part of the Spanish infrastructure group Globalvia, plan to demonstrate urban air mobility flights at Lisbon’s first vertiport in May.
Announcing the demonstration at the Oeiras Advanced Air Mobility Summit in Portugal last week, the partners said they intend to fly helicopters and drones at Helibravo’s heliport in Algés, an outer borough of Lisbon, to simulate eVTOL operations.
The flight demonstrations at the Lisbon vertiport will take place on May 15 during the Airspace World 2025 event organized by the Civil Air Navigation Services Organization (Canso).
Helibravo and Bluenest have been collaborating on the development of a vertiport network in Portugal for the past year. During the AAM Summit in Lisbon in November 2023, the companies signed an agreement pledging to jointly develop what they say will be Portugal’s first vertiport network. The partners are also collaborating on a plan to transition existing helicopter operations over to eVTOL aircraft, the first of which could be certified for commercial use in 2025.
Bluenest is also working with Embraer spin-off Eve Air Mobility to automate vertiport operations with Eve’s planned urban air traffic management system.