Turin's gateway to the future of flight.
The Italian Urban Air Mobility Hub
Skygate is the only Italian Accelerator Hub focusing on supporting Start-Up, Scale-up and SMEs in their operational access to the new Urban Air Mobility market.
Located in the International City Airport of Turin (ICAO:LIMA), which features built-in EASA Navigation and Traffic Control Operations (ENAV) for enabling flexible new aerial spaces, SkyGate aims at
developing the first Italian Vertiport dedicated to the so-called e-VTOL, the electrical vehicles for the advanced aerial urban mobility.
The Skygate vertiport will offer take-off and landing areas but also, thanks to our unique expertise, infrastructural and technological capabilities; it will also support all those companies that need to evaluate, test & develop their solutions and products in the field of the electrical and vertical air mobility.
LOCATION
The Skygate project is located in the immediate proximity of the most important regional aerospace industrial pole in the heart of Piedmont's urban fabric,
the future Aerospace City.
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The presence of large corporations such as Leonardo, Thales Alenia Space and Altec, will be enriched and integrated by the new aerospace campus of Politecnico di Torino.
The airfield grounds extends over the urban area of Collegno, adjacent to Turin's aerospace industrial hub and only few minutes by public transportation from the city's center and it is currently in operation as a "Schenghen" airport for general & recreational aviation.
TARGET MARKETS
Vertical Mobility
Moving into a new dimension
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It is estimated that by 2035 about 23,000 eVTOLs (electrical Vertical Take-Off and Landing) should be in service for passenger transport, in addition to hundreds of thousands of drones for goods deliveries, precision agriculture, emergency medicine transport, etc.
Inspection
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€31 Bn
Goods
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€4 Bn
Passengers
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€31Bn
Services
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€4 Bn
70 B€ by 2035.
Porsche Consulting 2019
The development of the eVTOL market is driven and strongly influenced by the continuous development of enabling technologies from the aeronautical and automotive sectors, both of which are part of the industrial heritage and know-how of Turin since more than 110 years.
The emergence of key enabling technologies that enable mobility and ground mass have a potential direct impact on aviation, and in particular on general aviation, which is largely able to test and adopt them faster and more directly than commercial aviation.
The evolution of avionics and diagnostics systems, the optimization of the propulsion chain, the refinement in the formulation and production of composite materials, permanent sky-to-ground communication and telemetry systems are all elements converging towards a safer, more sustainable and widespread general aviation.
General Aviation
Safer, sustainable, more accessible
FULL-STACK TECHNOLOGY FOCUS
SkyGate is ready to host the experimental development of all the main technological segments involved in vertical mobility and advanced general aviation, both in terms of flight hardware & software and ground services.
FLIGHT
HW/SW
GROUND
HW/SW
SERVICES
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Electrochemical batteries
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Fuel cells
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On-Grid charge/discharge and balance management
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Electric motors
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Hybrid couplers
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Controllers & Invertors
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Flight Control
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Collision avoidance
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Redundancy & passive safety
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Sensors
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Materials (e.g. composites)
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Processing (e.g. additive manufacturing)
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VTOL Architecture
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Advanced fluidics
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Flight planning & booking
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Distributed infrastructure
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AR/VR simulations
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eVTOL Pilots
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eDriver service providers
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Teleservice
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Data collection & predictive maintenance
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Handling
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Freight transport
Energy Storage
Electric / Hybrid Propulsion
Automation / AI
Airframes / Materials
Infrastructures
Training
Maintenance
Logistics
SUPPORT SERVICES
A wide range of services dedicated to the needs of those dedicated to the development of vertical mobility and genearal aviation technologies & enterprises will be made available within SkyGate
PROMOTERS
PARTNERS
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