Havana Air Taxiport (eVTOL)
Havana · proposed personal-air-vehicle hub
No runway required — the proposed hub of a national eVTOL air-taxi network. A build target, not a built place.
How it would work
- The site
A compact vertiport pad at the capital — no runway — sited by the harbor and city center for port-to-city and waterfront hops.
- The aircraft
Pure eVTOLs (Joby, Archer, Wisk, Vertical) take off vertically and fly quiet, electric, short legs; eSTOL craft use short strips for longer hauls.
- The network
Havana anchors a national grid of air taxiports at ports, cities and the cays — linking ports ↔ airports ↔ cities without new highways.
Recent industry milestones (2024–2026)
- Nov 2024
The FAA finalizes SFAR-120, its powered-lift pilot-and-operations rule — the framework to certify eVTOL air-taxi pilots and fold the aircraft into US airspace (the first new aircraft-category pilot rule in ~80 years).
- Nov 2025
Joby flies the UAE's first crewed point-to-point eVTOL flight, from its Dubai test site to Al Maktoum airport; it holds exclusive Dubai air-taxi rights and targets commercial service by end-2026. Archer began flight tests in Abu Dhabi.
- Jul 2026
Dubai unveils what it bills as the world's first certified commercial vertiport. No fully commercial paying-passenger eVTOL service has launched anywhere yet — the layer is arriving, not arrived.
Where it stands
Nothing exists yet — this is a proposed build target. Cuba is a long, thin island with scattered cities, ports and airfields: a natural fit for small electric aircraft that need only a pad, not a runway.
The opportunity
Build the air-taxiport layer with verified US & European eVTOL makers and vertiport operators. A greenfield network could leapfrog road congestion and connect the island's dispersed hubs directly — a next-gen mobility layer above the roads and airports.
Sources
- FAA — Air taxis & Advanced Air Mobility ↗
- FAA powered-lift rule (SFAR-120, 2024) — Federal Register ↗
- Joby's first crewed UAE eVTOL flight (2025) — Joby Aviation ↗
- NASA — Advanced Air Mobility ↗
History and figures verified against public sources at time of writing. Proposed zones (air taxiports, the spaceport) are future build targets — not existing facilities or announced plans. Not legal, tax or investment advice; any real project requires OFAC / EU sanctions clearance.