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About Mayman Aerospace

Mayman Aerospace is a US company in Long Beach, California, that builds autonomous, jet-powered vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft for defence and dual-use missions. Its P100 aircraft is in flight testing, and it is developing larger cargo models and SKYFIELD, software that lets one operator supervise several aircraft. The company was founded by David Mayman and is backed by Y Combinator and Draper Associates.

Sector
Autonomous VTOL aerospace/defence
Business model
Hardware (autonomous VTOL aircraft, defence)
Founders
David Mayman
Headquarters
Long Beach, US

Sources: maymanaerospace.com, techcrunch.com

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Milestones.

  1. Founded by David Maymantracxn.com
  2. Backed by Y Combinator to build autonomous VTOL aircrafttechcrunch.com
  3. Received FAA certificationmaymanaerospace.com
  4. Completed fully autonomous inaugural flightmaymanaerospace.com

In the news.

Backed by.

Y Combinator, Draper Associates, Metaplanet.

Sources: maymanaerospace.com

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