AAM Aircraft Are Nearing Takeoff. The Real Bottleneck Is Infrastructure.

Advanced Air Mobility is getting closer to commercial deployment, but aircraft certification and regulatory progress alone will not create a functioning transportation network. A new white paper from NEXA Advisors and UAM Geomatics finds that about $16.6 billion in infrastructure investment will be needed through 2045 across 62 key U.S. markets to support scalable operations.

That includes $11.2 billion in ground infrastructure like vertiports, charging, passenger facilities, and utility upgrades, plus $5.4 billion in air traffic and airspace modernization. The paper’s core message is simple: without infrastructure, AAM risks staying stuck in demonstration mode instead of becoming a real transportation system.

Authors:

Michael J. Dyment, Managing Partner, NEXA Advisors LLC

Benjamin Zevin, Director, UAM Geomatics Inc.

Download the white paper to read the full analysis.

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