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The air taxi startup Lilium announced a deal with Spanish infrastructure company Ferrovial to build over 10 landing locations in Florida.
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Most Florida residents will live within 30 minutes of one of the flying-taxi hubs.
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The state’s first commercial flight could be announced as soon as this spring.
Florida will serve as a hub for one of the world’s first jet-powered flying taxis- an all-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
The five-year-old startup Lilium, based out of Munich, announced a deal on Wednesday with Spanish infrastructure company Ferrovial to build over 10 landing locations – called “vertiports” – in several major cities across Florida, including…