Kansas Advanced Air Mobility Roadmap

The Kansas Advanced Air Mobility Roadmap outlines a strategic framework to position Kansas as a national leader in next-generation aviation. It addresses infrastructure, workforce development, economic impacts, and stakeholder collaboration to enable Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) integration, fostering innovation, connectivity, and economic growth across the state.<!-- notionvc: dca94658-17d4-449a-8a62-cdfb2ab00c7e -->

The "Kansas Advanced Air Mobility Roadmap" is a comprehensive strategic white paper guiding Kansas’s transition to advanced aviation technologies. It highlights Kansas’s rich aviation heritage and its unique positioning to lead the development, testing, and deployment of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) technologies, including electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOLs), unmanned aerial systems, and sustainable propulsion systems.

The document is a collaboration by state agencies, universities, industry leaders, and federal partners that presents a phased approach to integrate AAM into Kansas’s transportation network.

The roadmap is organized into four key strategic priorities: enabling AAM operations, ensuring infrastructure and service readiness, connecting stakeholders, and fostering economic and workforce development. It details Kansas’s assets, including its historic aviation ecosystem, robust manufacturing base, strongest aviation workforce concentration, comprehensive research institutions, and extensive airport system.

The roadmap emphasizes the critical role of collaborative regulatory and policy development, public engagement, and infrastructure upgrades such as vertiports and digital traffic management.

Economic impact studies within the document project Kansas could realize billions in GDP growth, tens of thousands of new jobs, and significant enhancements in air medical transport, cargo logistics, precision agriculture, and passenger mobility by 2050 under various demand scenarios. The document identifies actionable objectives including establishing operational testing systems, updating funding programs, workforce training, and aligning state and local government strategies.

This roadmap serves as a call to action to maintain Kansas’s leadership amid growing competition from other states and global actors in advanced aviation, ensuring the state captures emerging markets and technological breakthroughs with sustained innovation, investments, and policy support.

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