Activity & Development

Decarbonising the UK’s traditional aviation sector and accelerating the advanced air mobility industry.

The initiative will offer access to a range of aviation assets including runway, airspace and infrastructure test from Exeter’s regional airport, the iAero Innovation Centre & flight zone in Yeovil, as well as a network of other local airfields. It will be supported by world-class research, manufacturing, academia, skills and workforce development from across the South West.

Drones for Built & Natural Environment Data Capture Workshop

Drones for Built & Natural Environment Data Capture Workshop

12th March 2025

The story of how we captured data for Plymouth community Homes (PCH) and NHS Exeter.

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SWFFIZ Drone Workshop

SWFFIZ Drone Workshop

22nd November 2022

iAero in Yeovil was packed with Drone Operators and associated Organisations and Stakeholders discussing the opportunities and challenges in bringing products and services to market.

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Working alongside the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) it will enable future regulatory development, future air technology testing, skills development, collaboration and future commercialisation both nationally and regionally.

The UK Future Flight Innovation Zone will support access to an Innovation Advisor who will be the first point of contact with the CAA, providing regulatory guidance and advice on options available to enable innovative operations, providing critical review of proposed trials and documentation, facilitating exchange of knowledge and information between member organisations and CAA Subject Matter Experts, and providing additional support as required to help innovation projects deliver against their objectives.

We have some funding available to support Technology Developers to access initial advice and guidance from the CAA via our FFIZ sand-box, contact Corinne Matthews for more detail.

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We welcome conversations with future flight technology developers, research organisations, Local Authorities, Skills Providers and anyone who is interested in either working with us to explore the benefits from our eco-system or wants to share with us good practice from other areas.
Contact the FFIZ Programme Manager Corinne Matthews by email or phone.

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