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

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

The Short Version

Landing sites are emerging as the binding constraint on the U.S. eVTOL market. Landings is an independent developer placing its bets on rural ground infrastructure rather than urban rooftops. The New York-based company, led by Lisa Wright, is assembling a network of more than 2,000 rural vertiport locations across North America, with a coverage promise that no point in its network sits more than 45 minutes from a charger [Landings.co].

As electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft approach FAA type certification, charging-equipped landing sites must be permitted, built, and energized in the same nine-month window aircraft require to clear final certification milestones [citybiz]. Landings has begun translating this thesis into anchor projects, most visibly a partnership with twelve Upstate New York communities [Automotive World, September 2025]. The company is moving priority sites toward co-located energy partnerships, including solar generation and battery storage, to address grid interconnection delays [citybiz].

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.

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

The Company in Brief

Landings is a vertiport network developer headquartered in New York and led by founder and CEO Lisa Wright [citybiz; LinkedIn]. The company 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 network design constraint is that no point in the eventual network should sit more than 45 minutes from a charger [Landings.co].

The most concrete milestone 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 company has framed a nine-month convergence window between eVTOL certification timelines and vertiport construction timelines [citybiz]. A shift in priority site strategy toward energy partnerships, including co-located solar generation and battery storage, addresses grid interconnection delays [citybiz].

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

What They Have Built

Landings is building 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 [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 [streetinsider; Landings.co]. That spec targets the operating envelope of first-generation eVTOLs, which require recharge between sorties.

The company has argued that vertiport sites can be brought online in roughly nine months, the same window aircraft developers face for final certification milestones [citybiz]. Landings has stated that priority sites are progressing toward co-located solar generation paired with battery systems, a design choice that addresses utility interconnection queues and the peak power draw of fast-charging multiple aircraft [citybiz].

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

The vertiport opportunity is a real estate and energy-infrastructure bet on a transportation category that does not yet exist commercially in the United States. 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 gives developers a regulatory framework to design against. Industry coverage has identified ground infrastructure as a gating factor for commercial service entry [Aviation Week; Legal Flight Deck, October 2022].

The rural orientation is differentiated. Landings' bet is that rural connectivity, including medical logistics, regional passenger hops, and adjacent drone delivery infrastructure, will be the first segment to reach steady utilization. The company framed Walmart's drone delivery expansion as validation of that thesis [streetinsider].

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

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.

Who Else Is Fighting for This

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

Company	Positioning	Stage / Funding
Landings	Rural North American network, energy co-located	Stage not disclosed
Skyports	Urban and airport-adjacent vertiports, global	Backed by strategic investors
Skyportz	Australia-focused network developer	Privately held
VPorts	Canada and MENA focused infrastructure developer	Privately held
Ferrovial	Spanish infrastructure major building U.S. vertiport network	Public company
Volatus Aerospace	Drone and AAM services with vertiport adjacency	Publicly listed
Varon	Vertiport developer	Privately held

The competitive map breaks into global urban-focused developers (Skyports), infrastructure majors (Ferrovial), and regional independents (Skyportz, VPorts, Varon, and Landings). Landings' defensible edge is geographic and relational. The Upstate New York twelve-community partnership represents a land bank that an entrant cannot easily replicate [Automotive World, September 2025]. The energy co-location work is a meaningful edge if it reduces grid interconnection wait times [citybiz].

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

Opportunity

If eVTOL service entry happens on the timelines the FAA and major OEMs have 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 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) provides a stable target, and the energy strategy addresses utility interconnection delay [citybiz].

Growth scenarios

Scenario	What happens	Catalyst
Anchor-tenant lock-in	Landings signs a multi-year network agreement with an aircraft operator	First operator agreement covering 50+ sites
Energy-platform pivot	Sites monetize as distributed solar plus storage assets	First co-located solar plus battery site energized
Regional network roll-up	The Upstate New York model is replicated in 3 to 5 additional U.S. regions	Second regional MOU announced

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

Sources

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/