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Japanese eVTOL Developer SkyDrive Partners with Setouchi Islands Tourism Group
Japanese eVTOL aircraft developer SkyDrive says a Setouchi Islands tourism association has agreed to purchase an unspecified number of the company’s three-seat SD-05 air taxis for commercial use.
SkyDrive CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa (left) and MASC president Minehito Inoue signed a memorandum of understanding during a ceremony held at an eVTOL exhibition hall in Kurashiki-city on Nov. 10, 2023.
SkyDrive CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa (left) and MASC president Minehito Inoue signed a memorandum of understanding during a ceremony held at an eVTOL exhibition hall in Kurashiki-city on Nov. 10, 2023. (Photo: SkyDrive)

Japanese eVTOL aircraft developer SkyDrive says a Setouchi Islands tourism association has agreed to purchase an unspecified number of the company’s three-seat SD-05 air taxis for commercial use. 

SkyDrive announced Friday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Okayama Kurashiki Mizushima Aero & Space Industry Cluster Study Group (MASC), in which they pledged to collaborate on the development of commercial eVTOL operations in Japan’s Setouchi Islands, a group of thousands of small islands in the Seto Inland Sea. 

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