Open Skies Network, a spinout from the Open Skies Cornwall project, has secured investment to trial next‑generation seaplanes and autonomous aircraft in Southwest England. The funding will support operational trials, infrastructure assessments and regulatory engagement to validate routes and mixed crewed–uncrewed operations along coastal waterways.
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Open Skies Network is converting research into operational trials with private capital, advancing practical AAM use‑cases in the UK and testing seaplane and autonomous concepts alongside infrastructure needs (see recent UK AAM demonstrators in the OxCam AAM Corridor: https://hype.aero/?story=11f817bf-0547-47ca-976a-32987cd5067c).
The move signals accelerating investment activity for experimental AAM platforms — comparable to recent funding rounds for other AAM developers that underwrite flight testing and market entry (for example, Odys Aviation’s $26M Series A: https://hype.aero/?story=eef41c7b-6f09-4081-89ff-5eae51495158).
Operational trials will inform regulatory and airspace integration challenges, similar to BVLOS and unmanned trials elsewhere that test command‑and‑control and shared operations — a direct analogue is Australia’s BVLOS drone trial: https://hype.aero/?story=2630cd4f-2b1f-48cd-ad3d-04429e184119.
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