Overview
- Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi and Archer Aviation announced plans to convert the hospital’s helipad into a vertiport that can handle eVTOLs and helicopters.
- The partnership targets faster patient access and time-critical organ transport, with journeys expected to drop from hours to minutes compared with road travel.
- Operations would use Archer’s Midnight aircraft, which the company says carries up to four passengers with lower noise and emissions than conventional helicopters.
- Archer says the site fits into a broader Abu Dhabi network strategy, building on an earlier hybrid vertiport approval at the city’s cruise terminal under GCAA guidance.
- No start date was disclosed for the hospital vertiport, and the companies described use cases as planned rather than scheduled.