More than 85% of known AAM investment has gone to aircraft manufacturers. The airports preparing to receive those aircraft are moving ahead regardless — with their own capital, FAA guidance, and a growing understanding that the infrastructure problem is harder than the aircraft problem ever was.
The State of AAM 2026 | Advanced Air Mobility Intelligence Analysis
The vehicles are real. The investment is real. The infrastructure that makes those vehicles commercially viable does not yet exist at the scale any business model requires. Twenty-four vertiports broke ground in 2024 against a planned pipeline of 1,504. The honest state of AAM in April 2026.

