{"id":433525,"date":"2026-10-21T00:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433525\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T00:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:48:11","slug":"orlando-international-airport-moves-ahead-with-vertipad-plans-considers-500k-in-safety-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433525\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando International Airport moves ahead with vertipad plans, considers $500K in safety tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0October 20, 2026 at 6:19 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf hdgIwY yVqjv\">A new way of flying could be on the horizon at Orlando International Airport as aviation leaders prepare for electric aircraft that can take off and land vertically without using a traditional runway.<br \/>\nThe Greater Orlando Aviation Authority is moving forward with plans for a temporary vertipad, a designated takeoff and landing area for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, also known as eVTOLs.<br \/>\nThe proposal is among the items on the aviation authority board\u2019s agenda for Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Published:\u00a0October 20, 2026 at 6:19 PM A new way of flying could be on the horizon at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[169901,139,141,169900,140],"class_list":["post-433525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-considers-500k-in-safety-tech","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-international-airport-moves-ahead-with-vertipad-plans","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}