Daegu City Signs Business Agreement with U.S. Aerospace Company Bell Textron ... "Consultation on Urban Air Mobility Sector"

Eric Sinusas Direct, an executive director at Bell Textron (left in the photo), and Hong Joon-pyo, Mayor of Daegu, are holding up the business agreement certificate.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Koo Dae-sun] On the 28th, Daegu City signed a business agreement with Bell Textron, a U.S. aerospace specialized company, at EXCO where the Daegu International Future Mobility Expo is being held, marking the first such agreement by a local government to foster the advanced aviation mobility industry.

Following the establishment of cooperative relationships the previous day with SK Telecom, Hanwha Systems, Korea Airports Corporation, and T Map Mobility for the UAM pilot city and commercialization, Daegu City recently signed a business agreement with Bell Textron, which is expanding its business area into drones and UAM, thereby building a broad cooperative relationship from drones to advanced aviation mobility.

Bell, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, is a U.S. aerospace manufacturing company known globally as the first to develop a civilian helicopter. In Korea, it is well known as the manufacturer of the first presidential helicopter (UH-1H) and the helicopter (H-13) used for transporting wounded soldiers during the Korean War.

The recently developed ‘APT-70’ drone is designed for diverse uses such as medical, disaster, rescue, military logistics, and cargo transport, with a top speed of 160 km/h, a flight range of 56 km, and a maximum weight of 170 kg.

Daegu City plans to discuss various cooperation measures ranging from unmanned logistics delivery to unmanned aviation services and fostering the advanced aviation mobility industry, leveraging the business agreement with Bell Textron.

Daegu City expects that by cooperating with Bell in the phased promotion of urban air mobility (UAM) services?from demonstration to pilot city to commercialization?it will be able to lead cargo transportation and passenger services.

Hong Joon-pyo, Mayor of Daegu, said, “We have established a global network in the urban air mobility (UAM) field for the first time among domestic local governments with one of the three major helicopter manufacturers in the U.S., a company that developed the world’s first civilian helicopter.” He added, “We plan to expand the global intercity cooperation network in the future to lead the urban air mobility sector and actively foster related industries.”

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