LuftCar Launches SkyBase™: Dual-Use Advanced Air Mobility Vertiport Platform with Sustainable Energy Infrastructure -- 100% built with American Innovation

SkyBase™ delivers modular, deployable vertiport infrastructure engineered entirely in the United States — purpose-built for eVTOL operations, defense logistics, emergency response, and clean energy integration — as Florida and the nation begin executing taxpayer-funded Advanced Air Mobility corridor buildouts.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., June 10, 2026 — LuftCar Air and Space Mobility, LLC, a Florida-headquartered aerospace technology company and holder of U.S. Patent No. 12,084,177 B2, today announced the commercial availability of SkyBase™, a next-generation modular vertiport platform purpose-designed for the dual-use Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) market. SkyBase™ represents the most comprehensive, American-engineered ground infrastructure solution available today for the rapidly emerging eVTOL ecosystem — combining rapid deployability, resilient energy independence, and multi-mission adaptability within a single, scalable architecture.

Built in America, Designed for America's Airspace

SkyBase™ is 100% American-designed, American-engineered, and American-built. Every element of the platform — from its structural systems and power architecture to its AI-driven airspace coordination layer — originates from domestic intellectual property, domestic supply chains, and American talent.

This distinction matters now more than ever. As Florida, Texas, and other states begin deploying taxpayer dollars through the FAA's Established Intrastate Pilot Program (eIPP) and Florida's landmark HB 1093 — which authorizes FDOT to fund up to 100% of vertiport project costs — critical questions are being raised about where that capital is actually going.

LuftCar has observed with concern that certain Fixed-Base Operators (FBOs) participating in federally and state-funded eIPP corridors are procuring vertiport construction and infrastructure services from foreign companies — effectively transferring American taxpayer investment overseas, suppressing domestic job creation, and introducing supply chain dependencies that carry both economic and national security risk.

SkyBase™ was built with exactly the opposite mandate: every dollar invested in SkyBase™ infrastructure stays in the American economy, supports American workers, and strengthens American aerospace capability.

What Is SkyBase™?

SkyBase™ is a modular, rapidly deployable vertiport ecosystem engineered for the full spectrum of AAM missions — civil, commercial, and defense. The platform integrates:

Sustainable Energy Infrastructure at the Core

SkyBase™ is not simply a landing pad — it is an intelligent energy node. LuftCar engineered SkyBase™ from the ground up to function as a distributed clean energy hub within the broader grid ecosystem, capable of operating fully off-grid or in a grid-interactive mode that supports community resilience during natural disasters and emergencies.

Key sustainable energy capabilities of SkyBase™ include:

Net-zero operational design: onsite solar generation paired with advanced battery storage enables SkyBase™ sites to meet 100% of their operational energy demand from renewable sources under standard operating profiles

Hydrogen fuel cell readiness: SkyBase™ power architecture includes hydrogen-compatible interfaces for the emerging hydrogen aviation sector, supporting both fuel cell electric propulsion systems and hydrogen-powered ground support equipment

Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capable charging infrastructure, enabling deployed aircraft to serve as distributed energy storage assets during peak grid stress events

Resilient microgrid architecture ensuring mission continuity during grid outages — a critical capability for both emergency response operations and forward-deployed military logistics

Carbon footprint tracking and sustainability reporting integrated into the LuftPAATH™ platform, enabling operators to document and verify emissions reductions for ESG reporting, grant compliance, and regulatory purposes

Dual-Use by Design: Civil and Defense in One Platform

SkyBase™'s modular architecture was deliberately engineered to serve both commercial AAM operations and defense/government mission sets within the same physical deployment — eliminating the cost and complexity of maintaining parallel infrastructure programs.

On the civil side, SkyBase™ enables:

Urban air mobility passenger terminals and inter-city eVTOL transit hubs

Hospital and healthcare campus vertiports for medical transport and emergency organ delivery

Airport AAM integration nodes supporting last-mile connectivity for major commercial airports

Cargo and last-mile logistics facilities for eVTOL freight networks

On the defense and government side, SkyBase™ provides:

Forward-deployable austere airfield infrastructure for special operations and expeditionary logistics

Robotic assembly capability enabling rapid stand-up in contested or remote environments with minimal personnel exposure

Integrated command-and-control node with LuftPAATH™ supporting multi-domain airspace deconfliction for joint operations

Border security and critical infrastructure surveillance support through integrated ISR-compatible landing and charging infrastructure

Validated Traction and Strategic Partnerships

SkyBase™ is not a concept — it is a commercially active platform with demonstrated market validation:

Active eIPP program designations, positioning SkyBase™ as a compliant infrastructure provider for state-funded AAM corridor deployments across the US

Signed MOU with a major national healthcare system for a South Florida vertiport deployment study supporting emergency medical air transport

International deployments documented through Dubai Horizon I & II, delivered for Dubai Municipality, demonstrating SkyBase™'s operational readiness across international regulatory environments

Philippines strategic partnership agreement supporting Southeast Asian AAM infrastructure expansion

Active construction partner agreements with premium domestic contractors for SkyBase™ site development

19-vehicle eVTOL purchase order validating integrated demand for both the LuftCar aircraft and the SkyBase™ ground infrastructure ecosystem

A Call for American Infrastructure Investment That Stays in America

As the United States invests billions in the Advanced Air Mobility sector through federal SBIRs, FAA programs, state eIPP authorizations, and new legislation like Florida's HB 1093, LuftCar urges state and federal program offices, airport authorities, FBOs, and private developers to ask a fundamental question before executing any vertiport procurement: Where is this money going?

Taxpayer dollars invested in AAM infrastructure should create American jobs, develop American intellectual property, and build American aerospace capability. LuftCar and SkyBase™ are uniquely positioned as the only fully domestic, vertically integrated AAM infrastructure solution combining a patented aircraft platform, proven ground infrastructure, and AI-powered airspace management — all developed, owned, and operated by an American company.

"SkyBase™ represents our conviction that America's air mobility future should be built by Americans, powered by clean energy, and serve both our communities and our warfighters. While others are importing foreign infrastructure with American tax dollars, we are doing the opposite — exporting American innovation to the world, starting right here in Florida."

— Santh Sathya, Founder & CEO, LuftCar Air and Space Mobility, LLC

About LuftCar Air and Space Mobility, LLC

LuftCar Air and Space Mobility, LLC (CAGE 96DP6 | SAM UEI HUR6S8RM72B6 | EIN 86-2949261) is a West Palm Beach, Florida-based aerospace technology company developing three integrated Advanced Air Mobility platforms: a patented heavy-payload hybrid-electric tiltrotor eVTOL aircraft (U.S. Patent No. 12,084,177 B2), SkyBase™ modular deployable vertiport infrastructure, and LuftPAATH™ AI-powered airspace corridor management and mission planning SaaS. LuftCar is an active FDOT and TxDOT eIPP participant, a DoW SBIR performer, and a certified Palm Beach County Small Business Enterprise.

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