The introduction of electrically powered aircraft and urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles will introduce many new and unique maintenance challenges. UAM operational models may fundamentally change how aircraft maintenance is conducted and the standards to which maintenance technicians are trained. In this paper, we present feedback from maintenance professionals who participated in focus group meetings to discuss emerging electric propulsion concepts and aircraft configurations. The goal of the meetings was to identify the potential merits and drawbacks of various designs in terms of maintainability and to discover concerns which may not be immediately apparent to engineers during the aircraft conceptual design phase.
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