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Transportation committee backs task force to study advanced air mobility
Summary
The Kentucky Senate Committee on Transportation reported favorably on Senate Joint Resolution 66 to form a task force studying advanced air mobility, citing economic development and potential medical-transport uses for eVTOL aircraft.
The Kentucky Senate Committee on Transportation on an oral vote reported favorably on Senate Joint Resolution 66, a nonbinding measure to form a legislative–agency–industry task force to study advanced air mobility (AAM) and related policy options in Kentucky.
Senator Shelley Funke Frommeyer, sponsor of SJR 66, told the committee the resolution would “look to what other states are doing and see what policies we should be thinking about in Kentucky.” She described AAM as the next wave of aviation innovation, pointing to electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or eVTOLs, being manufactured near Dayton, Ohio, and work under way at the Federal Aviation…
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