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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Leaders in St. Petersburg<\/a> plan to take the next step on Monday toward possibly bringing a futuristic mode of transportation to the city.<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles, or EVTOLs, have been a big talker for St. Pete’s Advanced Air Mobility Task Force the past few months.<\/p>\n The vehicles look like a mix of a plane or helicopter and a drone, and eventually will be autonomous.<\/p>\n The chair of the task force, Ed Montanari, presented the first of two progress reports on the city’s ongoing effort earlier this month.<\/p>\n On Monday, the task force will meet with manufacturers to hear what they would need to make the city’s air taxi dream a reality. They’ll also get a look at mock-ups of what the vehicles would look like.<\/p>\n PREVIOUS: St. Pete task force readies path to future aviation through electric air taxis<\/a><\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Another looming question is the exact flight path EVTOLs would take. They would operate out of Albert Whitted Airport and could fly to St. Pete-Clearwater Airport or Tampa International Airport<\/a>.<\/p>\n Manufacturers are already working in major markets like Los Angeles, New York and Dubai to establish the same type of infrastructure city leaders hope to build in St. Pete.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Monday’s Advanced Air Mobility Task Force is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n The task force will present its second progress report in November, and members are scheduled to give city leaders a final layout of air mobility in January 2026.<\/p>\n The Source: This story was written with information from the City of St. Petersburg and previous FOX 13 News reports.<\/p>\n St. Petersburg<\/a>Transportation<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Leaders in St. Petersburg plan to take the next step on Monday toward possibly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,1798,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-8134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-fl","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pinellas","11":"tag-st-pete","12":"tag-st-pete-headlines","13":"tag-st-pete-news","14":"tag-st-petersburg","15":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","16":"tag-st-petersburg-news","17":"tag-transportation","18":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134","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=8134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/air-taxis-.jpg\")
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