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Ross Perot Jr Pushes Alliance Airport as eVTOL Development Hub
Perot promotes Fort Worth Alliance airport complex as home for UAS, eVTOL development.
Ross Perot Jr.
Ross Perot Jr. addressing the opening session of NBAA-BACE 2019. (Photo: David McIntosh)

Ross Perot, Jr. believes the 26,000-acre Fort Worth Alliance Airport complex in Texas is just the place to develop and test a new generation of delivery drones and passenger eVTOL aircraft. Beginning in the 1980s, Perot’s Hillwood Development donated the land for the public-use airport and developed adjacent industrial, retail, and 10,000 residential properties.

Today, more than 525 companies and 61,000 employees are part of the Alliance complex that includes logistics hubs and high-tech facilities for Amazon, UPS, Santa Fe Railroad, and Facebook, and Perot is known as the most powerful real estate developer in Texas. He is a big backer of new technology, hosting the TexasUP summit of industry investors in urban air mobility last year and driving the formation of a “mobility zone” at Alliance.