Membership for public safety agencies

Making flight accessible to any public safety agency.

Counties, EMS agencies, fire departments, and sheriffs: Akute membership gives you a lawful, proven path from “we're curious” to “we're flying” — without hiring an aviation department.

The whitepaper

How a county puts a paramedic in the air.

The Hyde County proof of concept ran April 15 to August 1, 2026... two live 911 responses, more than 300 training sorties, all under authority the county declared for itself. The whitepaper lays out how the model works and what it takes to run it where you are. Membership is free, and it starts here.

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Public aircraft operations, made simple

Everything your agency needs to fly — under one roof.

A Public Aircraft Operation (PAO) is the legal framework that lets a public entity fly its own aircraft for its own mission. Akute makes declaring and running one simple.

01 · Authority

Declaring a PAO

We guide your agency through declaring its Public Aircraft Operation — the documentation, the safety case, and the governance — so the authority to fly stays with you, exercised safely from day one.

02 · Software

Akute OS — a platform for any aircraft

Mission authorization, airspace, training records, and compliance run in software, not binders. Vehicle-agnostic by design — from drones to helicopters to the simplified aircraft still to come.

03 · Standards

Governance and standards

Operational standards vetted through expert governance and coded directly into the platform — evolving with every flight flown across the network, so every member benefits from every mission.

04 · Community

Open innovation

Members get a voice in how the platform and its standards evolve — an open, federated model where agencies, not vendors, decide what public aviation becomes.

Membership

Membership is free.

One level, no dues. Members get the Akute white paper, program news and updates, member webcasts and working sessions with the agencies that have already flown, and a voice in how the standards evolve. Join with your email above... that's the whole process.

Services + software

When your agency is ready to fly, we do the heavy lifting.

Everything starts with a free consult... one conversation, operator to operator, about where your agency is and what your county's numbers say. From there, Akute offers fractional Aviation Program Management and the software to run it.

Fractional APM

Aviation Program Management

Akute works as your Aviation Program Manager: declaring your PAO, building your safety case, training pathways, and standing up your program... a fraction of an aviation department, for agencies that don't need a whole one.

Consulting
Akute OS

Operations software

Dispatch integration, mission coordination, weather and go/no-go support, and the auditable record that keeps your program defensible... proven on live 911 calls in the Hyde County pilot.

Software
Your county, modeled

Coverage analysis and the digital twin

Localized maps, landing zones, reach analysis on your own 911 data, and a digital twin of your response area — for aircraft, drone first response, and optionally piloted platforms alike.

Software
The right hardware

Aircraft and DFR program support

Guidance on the aircraft, drone, and optionally piloted platforms that fit your mission and terrain, and access to the member program shaping purpose-built EMS aircraft.

Consulting

Book the free consult

No commitment and no fee... just a clear picture of your path to flight, and what the Hyde County pilot proved is possible.

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