The EU-funded SAMVA project recently completed a series of successful electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft flights at the first EGNOS-enabled ‘vertiport’, at Lleida–Alguaire International Airport in Catalonia, Spain.

Among other things, SAMVA partners developed, tested and validated new, first-flight, procedure design criteria for autonomous eVTOL passenger aircraft based on EGNOS.

The key objectives of the SAMVA project include: