Los Angeles Area Airport to Get Joby's Electric Aircraft Charging System

Clay Lacy Aviation is a business aviation services group operating a network of FBOs and an aircraft charter and management fleet.

Joby's four-passenger eVTOL aircraft will operate from vertiports and airports. — Joby Aviation aims to certify its four-passenger eVTOL aircraft in time to start commercial air taxi flights in 2025. (Image: Joby)

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

January 8, 2024

Clay Lacy Aviation and Joby Aviation are to install what they say will be the first charging unit for eVTOL air taxis in Southern California. The Global Electric Charging System (GEACS) developed by Joby will form part of Clay Lacy’s $100 million redevelopment of its FBO at John Wayne Airport in Orange County which is due to be completed by mid-2025.

Joby is already using the GEACS units to support test flights with its four-passenger eVTOL aircraft at its facility at Marina in Northern California and at Edwards Air Force Base. Last year, the company made the specifications for the charging units available publicly to encourage other electric aircraft manufacturers and operators to adopt them as a universal recharging interface.

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