Eve Air Mobility

About

Eve Air Mobility is the electric vertical take-off and landing developer spun out of Embraer and taken public as Eve Holding, Inc. Its aircraft, named the Eve 100, is a lift-plus-cruise design with eight dedicated lift rotors and fixed wings for forward flight. Eve's own aircraft page states a configuration of four passengers plus a pilot at entry into service, with additional seats contemplated only once an autonomous configuration is certified, and a range of 60 miles (100 km). That range figure is the company's published number and should be preferred over the shorter figures that circulate informally.

Eve's first UAE commitment was announced on 7 June 2022, when it and Falcon Aviation Services said they had signed a letter of intent for up to 35 aircraft. Falcon, which already runs helicopter sightseeing from Atlantis, The Palm and handles roughly 40,000 sightseeing passengers a year, was described as the intended first eVTOL operator in Dubai and the wider MENA region, with deliveries then expected to begin in 2026. The release is carried on both Eve's and Falcon's own websites. Neither company has since published a firm order, a conversion of the letter of intent, or a revised delivery date, and the 2026 delivery expectation has not been met.

The second commitment is narrower and is about software rather than aircraft. On 13 November 2023 Eve announced a letter of intent with Kookiejar, a Swedish vertiport developer, for Eve's Vector Urban Air Traffic Management system to support vertiport operations in Dubai. Eve described this as its first Urban ATM agreement in Dubai and said Kookiejar and its local partner Air Chateau planned a vertiport hub with eight parking pads and one final approach and take-off area at Al Maktoum Airport, Dubai South, with commercialisation targeted for 2025 to 2026. No UAE government or airport authority has published a corresponding approval, groundbreaking or completion notice, and that target window has now passed.

Eve's regional activity since 2023 has moved to Bahrain rather than the Emirates. On 3 November 2025 Eve and Bahrain's Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications signed a framework agreement covering a regulatory sandbox, vertiport infrastructure and workforce training, with commercial operations expected from 2028. That release, published by Eve and by Embraer's media centre, lists Dubai and Abu Dhabi among cities Eve is evaluating for premium shuttle and tourist routes, but evaluation is the extent of the claim; no UAE agreement is announced in it.

On the regulatory side, Eve's certification releases name Brazil's ANAC as the certifying authority, with an EASA validation application submitted in July 2026 and FAA engagement referenced. Eve has published nothing describing an application to, or a certification basis agreed with, the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority or the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, and neither regulator has published anything naming Eve. On the available primary record, Eve is a company with stated interest in the UAE market and two dormant letters of intent, not an entrant with an approved path to service there.

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Sources

1. [eve-falcon-2022] Eve Air Mobility — Eve and Falcon Aviation Services announce partnership to introduce eVTOL flights in Dubai official-news · accessed 2026-07-28
2. [falcon-eve-2022] Falcon Aviation Services — Eve and Falcon Aviation Services announce partnership to introduce eVTOL flights in Dubai official-news · accessed 2026-07-28
3. [eve-kookiejar-2023] Eve Air Mobility — Eve and Kookiejar to Develop Urban Air Traffic Management System for Operations in Dubai official-news · accessed 2026-07-28
4. [embraer-eve-bahrain-2025] Embraer Media Center — Eve Air Mobility Expands Middle East Presence with Bahrain Framework Agreement operator-ir · accessed 2026-07-28
5. [eve-ir-fy2025] Eve Holding, Inc. — Eve Holding, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and FY2025 Results operator-ir · accessed 2026-07-28
6. [eve-ir-cert-2026] Eve Holding, Inc. — Eve Advances Global Certification Path for Eve 100 operator-ir · accessed 2026-07-28
7. [eve-evtol-specs] Eve Air Mobility — eVTOL (aircraft specifications) official-news · accessed 2026-07-28

Verification flags

• Seed note's VPorts vertiport partnership is NOT published: no Eve or VPorts primary source states an Eve-VPorts agreement, and VPorts' own Dubai advanced air mobility centre announcements name Electra.aero, Falcon Aviation and SkyDrive instead. Treated as unverified.
• Seed note's 'Dubai Creek Harbour' vertiport association is NOT published: no company, regulator or government source links Eve to Dubai Creek Harbour. The only Dubai site Eve names in its own releases is Al Maktoum Airport, Dubai South (Kookiejar/Air Chateau).
• Seed note's '60 km range' contradicts Eve's own published figure of 60 miles (100 km); the company figure was used.
• No GCAA or DCAA engagement by Eve is documented by either party. Eve's certification releases name ANAC, EASA and the FAA only. No UAE certification claim published.
• Status of the June 2022 Falcon Aviation letter of intent after 2022 is unconfirmed by any primary source; the stated 2026 delivery start has passed without a company update. Trade-press reports that Falcon subsequently worked with a different eVTOL developer on Dubai vertiports were not used as a source and are not published here.
• The Kookiejar/Air Chateau vertiport hub at Al Maktoum Airport, Dubai South is a company-stated plan only; no UAE airport, government or regulator source confirms approval, construction or completion, and the stated 2025-2026 commercialisation window has passed.
• connected.vertiports link to al-maktoum-international-vertiport is inferential, matching Eve's stated 'Al Maktoum Airport, Dubai South' location to the existing slug; the two have not been confirmed as the same project by a primary source.
• Eve's public eVTOL specification page still describes the company as 'building our first full-scale prototype' although FY2025 results report a first prototype flight in December 2025; the specification page may be stale, so specs are attributed to it rather than presented as current programme status.
• Eve's Q1 2026 and FY2025 investor releases contain no Middle East, UAE, Dubai or Falcon Aviation mentions, which is itself the basis for the 'announced' rather than 'planned' status.