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Avports Sees Big Green Air Mobility Futures for America's Small Regional Airports
The Goldman Sachs company, which once ran the iconic Pan Am building heliport in midtown Manhattan, now wants to put places like Manassas on the map.
Avports facility at Tweed New Haven Airport
Avports is looking to redevelop smaller regional airports like Connecticut's Tweed New Haven Airport. (Image: Avports)

There’s no denying that Avports has some pedigree when it comes to urban air mobility. Roll back the clock to the Midtown Manhattan "Mad Men" glory days of the late 1960s, when helicopters shuttled the great and the good to the top of the Pan Am Building, and you find the company’s origins as part of Pan Am World Services running that iconic facility.

Now, under new ownership and management for the past several years, the U.S. infrastructure and airport management specialist is seeking to play a big part in the future of mobility. Much of its focus is on helping smaller regional airports adapt to take advantage of the change being driven by new eVTOL and eSTOL aircraft. Vertiports could well be part of this equation.