Huh. Right next door:

America’s first electric medical air-travel facility coming to Rock Island

The “The Corporal Jason G. Pautsch Vertiport” has begun construction, with the goal of one megawatt of recharging capability via solar panels to support electric VTOL “air ambulances.” It’s supposed to be completed this year. Whether there’ll actually be any electric VTOL air ambulances for it to service… shrug.

There are of course a number of hospitals in the Quad Cities area, and helicopters are forever zipping back and forth. The idea sounds interesting, but for it to work it’ll need actual rechargeable VTOL aircraft. And it’s also parked right next to the Mississippi River which has a tendency to leap right out of its banks every now and then and say “howdy.” And the skies around here are often covered with clouds, which tend to mess with solar panels. And the company building this, DIFCO, Inc., seems to specialize in historic building preservation… a laudable function, but it’s direct applicability to eVTOL vertiports is not immediately obvious. Maybe they can charge Teslas or something in the interim.