Landings

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Field	Value
Name	Landings
Tagline	Building a rural network of vertiports and ground operations for eVTOLs with no point more than 45 minutes from a charger
Headquarters	New York, USA
Business Model	B2B
Industry	Advanced Air Mobility infrastructure
Technology Type	Hardware (ground infrastructure)
Geography	North America
Growth Profile	Venture Scale
Founding Team	Solo Founder (Lisa Wright)

Links

PUBLIC

• Website: https://www.landings.co/
• LinkedIn (founder): https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-l-wright/

Executive Summary

PUBLIC

Landing sites, not aircraft, are emerging as the binding constraint on the U.S. eVTOL market. Landings is one of the few independent developers placing its bets on rural ground infrastructure rather than urban rooftops. The New York based company, founded and led by Lisa Wright, is assembling what it describes as a network of more than 2,000 rural vertiport locations across North America. Its coverage promise is that no point in its network sits more than 45 minutes from a charger [Landings.co].

The thesis is straightforward: as electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft approach FAA type certification, charging-equipped landing sites must be permitted, built, and energized in roughly the same nine-month window that aircraft themselves require to clear final certification milestones [citybiz]. Landings has begun translating that thesis into anchor projects, most visibly a partnership with twelve Upstate New York communities that local press has framed as the largest planned vertiport network in North America [Automotive World, September 2025]. The company is also moving priority sites toward co-located energy partnerships, including solar generation and battery storage, to address grid interconnection delays that competing developers are already reporting [citybiz].

Capitalization, investor syndicate, and revenue have not been publicly disclosed. This is the most important caveat against the operational momentum described in trade press. Over the next 12 to 18 months, the items worth tracking are the conversion of the Upstate New York memorandum of understanding into permitted construction, the identity of any aircraft OEM or operator anchor tenants, and the first disclosed equity round. Any of these would materially re-rate the story.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Founder, headquarters, partnership scope, and network ambition are confirmed across Landings.co, citybiz, and Automotive World; financing and stage are not disclosed.

Taxonomy Snapshot

Axis	Value
Business Model	B2B infrastructure (host vertiport sites for eVTOL operators)
Industry / Vertical	Advanced Air Mobility, ground infrastructure
Technology Type	Hardware plus real estate, with energy co-location
Geography	North America, rural focus
Growth Profile	Venture Scale
Founding Team	Solo Founder

Company Overview

PUBLIC

Landings is a vertiport network developer headquartered in New York and led by founder and CEO Lisa Wright [citybiz; LinkedIn]. The company's public positioning is narrowly defined: rather than competing for marquee urban rooftop sites, it is acquiring and permitting rural and exurban parcels intended to host electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, with charging built in from day one. The company's website summarizes the network design constraint in a single sentence, that no point in the eventual network should sit more than 45 minutes from a charger. This functions as both a coverage spec and a sales pitch to aircraft operators evaluating route economics [Landings.co].

The most concrete milestone in the public record is the September 2025 announcement that Landings is working with twelve Upstate New York communities on what local press describes as North America's largest planned vertiport network [Automotive World, September 2025; Morningstar, September 2025; Yahoo Finance, September 2025]. The same period saw company commentary, carried by citybiz, framing a nine-month convergence window between eVTOL certification timelines and vertiport construction timelines, and arguing that property owners face a binary decision point on whether to develop now or be priced out later [citybiz]. A subsequent citybiz item described a shift in priority site strategy toward energy partnerships, including co-located solar generation and battery storage, in response to grid interconnection delays [citybiz].

Founding date, legal entity structure, and capitalization have not been published in the sources reviewed. The picture that emerges is of a small, founder-led company in a permitting and partnership-development phase, attempting to build a defensible land bank ahead of commercial eVTOL service entry.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Operational milestones confirmed by multiple outlets; corporate formation and financing details remain undisclosed.

Product and Technology

MIXED

The "product" Landings is building is, in the first instance, a portfolio of permitted, charger-equipped landing sites under long-term site control, marketed to eVTOL operators and aircraft OEMs as a turnkey ground network [PUBLIC, Landings.co]. Network coverage is the headline specification: a planned 2,000-plus rural locations across North America, designed so that no point in the network is more than 45 minutes from a charger [PUBLIC, streetinsider; Landings.co]. That spec implicitly targets the operating envelope of first-generation eVTOLs, most of which are designed for trips in the 20 to 150 mile range and require recharge between sorties.

On the build side, the company has publicly argued that vertiport sites can be brought online in roughly nine months, the same window aircraft developers face for final certification milestones [PUBLIC, citybiz]. That timeline is plausible for greenfield sites that avoid heavy environmental review, though it has not been independently verified by a permitting authority in the sources reviewed. It is best read as an internal target rather than a confirmed average. The energy strategy is more substantive in its specificity. Landings has stated that priority sites are progressing toward co-located solar generation paired with battery systems, a design choice that addresses two real constraints: utility interconnection queues that can stretch multi-year, and the peak power draw of fast-charging multiple aircraft on turn [PUBLIC, citybiz].

The technology stack itself is comparatively light. Vertiport developers are not generally building proprietary chargers or aircraft-side hardware. The defensibility comes from site control, permitting, utility interconnection rights, and operator contracts. No proprietary software platform, fleet management product, or data product has been disclosed in the public record reviewed.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Network spec and energy strategy confirmed by company and citybiz; build-time and interconnection claims are single-sourced.

Market Research and Opportunity

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The vertiport opportunity is essentially a real estate and energy-infrastructure bet on a transportation category that does not yet exist commercially in the United States. The timing question is everything.

The demand drivers are well documented in trade press. Aircraft OEMs including Joby Aviation, Archer Aviation, and Beta Technologies are progressing through FAA type certification. The FAA has published vertiport design guidance (Engineering Brief 105) that, alongside parallel work in EASA, gives developers a regulatory framework to design against. Industry coverage from Airports International and Aviation Week has consistently identified ground infrastructure as a gating factor for commercial service entry, with Skyportz CEO Clem Newton-Brown publicly describing modular "vertiport-in-a-box" concepts intended to compress build timelines [Aviation Week; Legal Flight Deck, October 2022]. Landings is operating against the same pressure, but with a rural rather than metropolitan footprint.

The rural orientation is differentiated. Most early vertiport activity, including Skyports' work with operators in Europe and the Middle East and Ferrovial's announced U.S. network, has concentrated on dense urban catchments where passenger willingness to pay is highest. Landings' bet is that rural connectivity, including medical logistics, regional passenger hops between underserved airports, and adjacent drone delivery infrastructure, will be the first segment to reach steady utilization. The company explicitly framed Walmart's drone delivery expansion as validation of that thesis [streetinsider]. Adjacent and substitute markets include conventional general aviation airfields, which already host charging in some cases, and helicopter pads, which can in principle be retrofitted but which often sit in geographies misaligned with eVTOL economics.

No independent third-party TAM figure was confirmed in the sources reviewed for U.S. rural vertiports specifically. The single hard sizing claim in the public record is the Landings network design target itself.

Metric	Value	Source
Planned Landings network	2,000+ rural sites in North America	[streetinsider]
Coverage spec	No point >45 minutes from a charger	[Landings.co]
Stated build window per site	~9 months	[citybiz]

the numbers in the public record describe ambition and design intent, not deployed capacity. The investable question is how many of the planned 2,000 sites convert to permitted, energized, and contracted vertiports within the next 24 to 36 months, and whether Landings can secure anchor tenant agreements with operators before aircraft enter service.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Market structure and regulatory context corroborated across Airports International, Aviation Week, and Legal Flight Deck; sizing for the rural sub-segment is not independently published.

Competitive Landscape

MIXED

Landings sits in a small but rapidly populating field of independent vertiport developers. The competitive question is less about technology and more about who locks up sites, utility interconnections, and operator contracts first.

Company	Positioning	Stage / Funding	Notable Differentiator	Source
Landings	Rural North American network, energy co-located	Stage not disclosed [PUBLIC]	2,000+ planned sites, 45-minute coverage spec	[Landings.co; streetinsider]
Skyports	Urban and airport-adjacent vertiports, global	Backed by strategic investors including Groupe ADP (publicly reported)	Operator-grade vertiport design, live demonstrations with Joby and Volocopter	[Aviation Week]
Skyportz	Australia-focused network developer	Privately held	Modular "vertiport-in-a-box" concept and large property partner network	[Legal Flight Deck, October 2022; Aviation Week]
VPorts	Canada and MENA focused infrastructure developer	Privately held	Integrated air mobility corridors, regulatory partnerships	[secondary trade press]
Ferrovial	Spanish infrastructure major building U.S. vertiport network	Public company	Balance sheet and infrastructure delivery experience	[secondary trade press]
Volatus Aerospace	Drone and AAM services with vertiport adjacency	Publicly listed	Operations and services platform alongside infrastructure	[secondary trade press]
Varon	Vertiport developer	Privately held	Niche regional positioning	[secondary trade press]

The competitive map breaks into three groups. The first is global urban-focused developers, principally Skyports, which has the deepest operator relationships and a head start on certified-grade designs. The second is infrastructure majors, principally Ferrovial, where the competitive advantage is balance sheet and the ability to absorb multi-year permitting and interconnection timelines. The third is regional independents (Skyportz in Australia, VPorts in Canada and the Gulf, Varon, and Landings in rural North America) where the bet is on local site control and community relationships in geographies the majors are not prioritizing.

Landings' defensible edge today is geographic and relational rather than technological. The Upstate New York twelve-community partnership, if it converts to long-term site leases or development rights, represents a land bank that an entrant cannot easily replicate, because rural municipal partnerships are won one town board at a time [Automotive World, September 2025]. The energy co-location work is also a meaningful edge if it reduces grid interconnection wait times relative to competitors who are still queuing for utility upgrades [citybiz]. Both edges are perishable: a better-capitalized competitor could acquire equivalent rural parcels, and utility partnerships are not exclusive in most jurisdictions.

The exposure is on the demand side. Skyports already has visible operator relationships with Joby and Volocopter. Ferrovial has signed deals with Lilium historically and has the balance sheet to underwrite anchor tenant economics. Landings has not publicly disclosed an aircraft OEM or operator anchor tenant. If rural eVTOL routes prove to require operator subsidy in the early years, the developers with operator equity ties or infrastructure-major balance sheets will set the terms.

The most plausible 18-month scenario: winner if Landings converts the Upstate New York memorandum into permitted sites and signs an operator anchor (Beta Technologies, given its rural and cargo orientation, would be a natural fit). Loser if Ferrovial or Skyports announces a competing rural U.S. program before Landings closes its first institutional round.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Competitor identities are confirmed by trade press; specific funding stages for several private peers were not independently verified in the sources reviewed.

Opportunity

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If eVTOL service entry happens on the timelines the FAA and major OEMs have publicly targeted, the developer that owns the rural ground network owns a tollbooth on an entire transportation category.

The headline opportunity

The largest plausible outcome for Landings is becoming the default ground infrastructure for non-metropolitan eVTOL operations in North America, the rural counterpart to whatever Skyports or Ferrovial becomes in dense urban catchments. The cited evidence makes this reachable rather than aspirational for three reasons: the company has a stated 2,000-site network plan and is actively converting an anchor regional partnership in Upstate New York [streetinsider; Automotive World, September 2025]; the regulatory framework (FAA EB-105 vertiport guidance) gives developers a stable target to design against; and the energy strategy (solar plus storage co-location) addresses the single most-cited execution risk in the category, which is utility interconnection delay [citybiz]. None of those facts guarantee the outcome, but together they describe a coherent path rather than a wish.

Growth scenarios

Scenario	What happens	Catalyst	Why it's plausible
Anchor-tenant lock-in	Landings signs a multi-year network agreement with an aircraft operator (Beta, Joby, or a regional carrier), converting site control into recurring landing-fee revenue	First operator agreement covering 50+ sites	Operators publicly need rural charging coverage to make route maps work, and Landings is one of few developers with a rural-only network plan [Landings.co]
Energy-platform pivot	Sites monetize as distributed solar plus storage assets in addition to landing fees, with utility offtake or virtual power plant revenue	First co-located solar plus battery site energized	Company has publicly stated priority sites are moving in this direction [citybiz], and rural land cost economics favor co-location
Regional network roll-up	The Upstate New York twelve-community model is replicated in 3 to 5 additional U.S. regions, each anchored by a state DOT or regional economic development partnership	Second regional MOU announced	The Upstate New York deal is described by trade press as the largest planned vertiport network in North America [Automotive World, September 2025], suggesting the model is exportable

What compounding looks like

The flywheel in vertiport infrastructure is site density. Each additional permitted site in a region increases the route map operators can fly, which increases operator willingness to commit to the network, which increases the landing-fee economics that justify the next site acquisition. Energy co-location adds a second compounding loop: each solar plus storage site generates revenue independent of flight volume, smoothing cash flow during the slow ramp of commercial eVTOL operations. There is early evidence the first loop is starting, in the form of the twelve-community Upstate New York partnership [Automotive World, September 2025]. The second loop is asserted but not yet evidenced by a disclosed energized site.

The size of the win

No directly comparable public peer exists for U.S. rural vertiport developers, which makes a precise comparable difficult. The closest analog is the early-stage EV charging network category, where Chargepoint and EVgo reached multi-billion-dollar public market valuations on the basis of site count and utilization potential rather than near-term cash flow. If rural eVTOL operations reach even a fraction of the route density that EV charging has reached on highways, a developer with site control over 2,000 locations would be a strategic asset to any aircraft OEM, infrastructure major, or transportation REIT (scenario, not a forecast). The downside framing is equally important and is addressed in the private half of this report.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Scenarios grounded in cited milestones and public regulatory context; comparables are analogous, not direct.

Sources

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1. [Landings.co] Landings.co - We Build Vertiports | https://www.landings.co/

2. [citybiz] Lisa Wright's Landings Moves Priority Sites to Energy Partnerships as eVTOL Timeline Compresses | https://www.citybiz.co/article/817479/lisa-wrights-landings-moves-priority-sites-to-energy-partnerships-as-evtol-timeline-compresses/

3. [citybiz] Infrastructure Developer Highlights Timeline Convergence as eVTOL Certification and Vertiport Development Both Require Nine Months | https://www.citybiz.co/article/803720/infrastructure-developer-highlights-timeline-convergence-as-evtol-certification-and-vertiport-development-both-require-nine-months-creating-binary-decision-point-for-property-owners/

4. [LinkedIn] Lisa Wright - Landings | https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-l-wright/

5. [Digital Journal] KeyCrew Media Selects Landings as Verified Expert for Advanced Air Mobility Infrastructure and Rural Vertiport Development | https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/news/revupmarketer/keycrew-media-selects-landings-verified-1418504515.html

6. [Automotive World, September 2025] Upstate New York planning North America's largest vertiport network with Landings.co | https://www.automotiveworld.com/news-releases/upstate-new-york-planning-north-americas-largest-vertiport-network-with-landings-co/

7. [streetinsider] Lisa Wright: Walmart Drone Delivery Expansion Validates Landings' Rural Air Mobility Infrastructure Strategy | https://www.streetinsider.com/KeyCrew/Lisa+Wright:+Walmart+Drone+Delivery+Expansion+Validates+Landings%E2%80%99+Rural+Air+Mobility+Infrastructure+Strategy/26144102.html

8. [Airports International] Building a vertiport network | https://www.airportsinternational.com/article/building-vertiport-network

9. [Morningstar, September 2025] Upstate New York Planning North America's Largest Vertiport Network with Landings.co | https://www.morningstar.com/news/business-wire/20250930715796/upstate-new-york-planning-north-americas-largest-vertiport-network-with-landingsco

10. [Yahoo Finance, September 2025] Upstate New York Planning North America's Largest Vertiport Network with Landings.co | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/upstate-york-planning-north-america-144000084.html

11. [Airports International] Upstate NY plans vertiports network | https://www.airportsinternational.com/article/upstate-ny-plans-vertiports-network

12. [Aviation Week] Skyportz CEO Describes Modular 'Vertiport-In-A-Box' Concept | https://aviationweek.com/aerospace/advanced-air-mobility/skyportz-ceo-describes-modular-vertiport-box-concept

13. [Legal Flight Deck, October 2022] We have questions: Clem Newton-Brown, founder and CEO of Skyportz Australia | https://www.legalflightdeck.com/2022/10/articles/advanced-air-mobility/we-have-questions-clem-newton-brown-founder-and-ceo-of-skyportz-australia/