evtol.nz is the planning-grade evidence platform for eVTOL, electric and uncrewed aviation: where vertiports and chargers should go, what routes are worth, and what regulators, councils, iwi and communities will accept. Independent, OEM-neutral, and built on open New Zealand data.
Validation sprint open until 20 December 2026: three paid pilots for councils, airports, infrastructure developers and health agencies.
Three dated facts set the window. Each links to the page it was taken from.
Operator apps, airspace management and certification are owned by OEMs, air navigation providers and regulators. The evidence that has to exist before any of them can act is not. That is what evtol.nz makes.
Screen vertiport, vertipad and charging sites against airspace, obstacle surfaces, zoning, population, hospitals, heliports, climate and grid proximity. Model routes, demand and travel-time savings. Export a business case a council officer can table.
How Atlas works →A weekly, searchable tracker of Asia-Pacific AAM rules, vertiport and charging pipelines, consent decisions and OEM moves, with alerts and crosswalks between the FAA, EASA, CASA and CAA NZ frameworks. The public rules tracker is its free tier.
What Radar covers →A six-to-eight-week study delivered through Atlas with expert review: candidate sites, route economics, consent and community evidence, and a decision-ready report. Priced below a consultancy engagement.
Scope a study →Where vertiports could go, what consent and noise questions arise, what to put in a master plan, and how to answer the Aviation Council's infrastructure-requirements work.
Site selection, demand and business cases, and the evidence you take to councils, iwi and investors.
Country-by-country route and market feasibility, with regulator crosswalks between the FAA, CASA and CAA NZ.
Cost-effectiveness of electric aeromedical missions, hospital vertipad siting and rural access equity, in a form funders accept.
LINZ topography and buildings, Airways airspace, the CAA register, Stats NZ population and tourism, climate from Earth Engine, lines-company network maps and district plans, joined into one geospatial platform. Australian layers follow.
Five reusable models: site suitability, demand and accessibility, economics and cost-benefit, energy and grid load, noise and consent. Methods are published and reproducible.
Scenario runs, sensitivity tables and reports with every figure sourced and dated. Planning-grade by design: never a substitute for airworthiness, obstacle-clearance or noise-compliance determinations.
Read the methods → · See the free New Zealand readiness map →
NZ$20 of electricity against NZ$110 of fuel per sector, 40 to 60 minutes to recharge, 480 km of demonstrated range, and a 2027 to 2028 cargo target. What that does and does not prove for the first commercial routes.
Read the note →From the Civil Aviation Act 2023 and Part 107 to CASA's roadmap, Airservices' FIMS, the FAA powered-lift SFAR and EASA Part-IAM, with what each means for planning.
Open the tracker →Councils, airports, infrastructure developers and health agencies in New Zealand and Australia: bring a real siting or route question and get a readiness map of your region before the first call.