Oman's Drone and eVTOL Rulebook: 7 Workshops This September

Oman's plan to open its skies to delivery drones and passenger eVTOL aircraft has moved from paperwork to workshop rooms. Throughout September, the international consortium GUAMobility is running seven consultation sessions in Muscat to pressure-test the Sultanate's draft National Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Strategy, with a session on investment and financing closing out the process on September 23.

🚁 Key Takeaways

• GUAMobility, the consortium mandated by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTCIT) in June 2026, launched its "second mission" in Oman this month, according to Oman Observer.
• Seven workshops are running through September at the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in Muscat, covering everything from use-case prioritization to airspace management, as reported by Unmanned Airspace.
• The final workshop, on September 23, focuses on investment, financing and public-private partnership models for drones and eVTOL aircraft.
• The strategy targets passenger transport, cargo logistics, emergency medical services, infrastructure inspection and oil and gas operations, per Urban Air Mobility News.
• Oman's Civil Aviation Authority has framed the programme around three tracks: a regulatory and legislative framework, a drone air traffic management platform, and a controlled testing environment, according to the CAA's Director General of Civil Aviation Regulation in Times of Oman.

📋 What's Actually Happening This Month

GUAMobility was formally mandated by MTCIT in June 2026 to develop Oman's National Advanced Air Mobility Strategy, and the consortium's "second mission" that began this month shifts the work from strategic alignment to what GUAMobility itself describes as "listening, exchanging, gathering data" and testing proposed directions against Oman's operational realities, as quoted by both Unmanned Airspace and Urban Air Mobility News, which both dated the launch of this phase to September 14, 2026.

According to Oman Observer, the seven workshops bring together government authorities, drone and eVTOL operators, technology companies and other economic stakeholders to help shape a national roadmap for the phased rollout of AAM technologies in Omani airspace.

🏛️ Who Is Running the Process

GUAMobility is a consortium co-founded by Innovitech, a Canadian strategy consultancy, and Groupement DTA, a French urban planning firm, with the Omani geospatial company GIS Hub also part of the core team, according to Unmanned Airspace. A wider network of roughly ten international partners, including EGIS, SETEC and CGX Aero, supports the mandate, as detailed in Innovitech's own announcement of the mandate.

On the Omani side, MTCIT leads the effort in coordination with the Civil Aviation Authority and the Oman Logistics Center, with a national steering committee chaired by Minister Said bin Hamoud Al Maawali, per Innovitech. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning is also involved given the urban-planning dimensions of low-altitude flight corridors.

📅 The Workshop Lineup

Reporting from Oman Observer and Urban Air Mobility News lays out the seven sessions taking place at the CAA's Muscat offices:

💰 Why the September 23 Session Matters Most

The consultation programme wraps up on September 23 with a workshop dedicated specifically to investment, financing and public-private partnerships, according to Oman Observer. That is the session likely to matter most to Omani entrepreneurs and investors, since it is where the government will start signalling what kind of capital structures, whether direct state funding, PPPs, or private concessions, it expects to use to build vertiports, traffic-management software and testing infrastructure.

GUAMobility CEO Borhene Dhaouadi has framed the broader approach as deliberately systemic rather than experimental: "By opting for a systemic approach rather than simple technological experimentation, the Sultanate of Oman is setting a precedent for the entire region: that of an advanced air mobility ecosystem conceived from the outset as a whole, where regulation, infrastructure, and industry move forward together," he said, as quoted by eVTOL Insights.

🎯 What This Means in Practice

The AAM programme is not starting from zero. Oman has already run a live trial using the domestically developed "Sahm" cargo drone, moving roughly 100 kilograms of medical supplies over about 100 kilometres, as previously reported by Times of Oman. The September workshops are meant to turn that kind of one-off demonstration into a repeatable national system, with three formal tracks: a regulatory and legislative framework, a drone air traffic management platform, and a controlled testing environment, per the CAA's own description of the programme.

Priority use cases named in the strategy include passenger transport, freight logistics, emergency medical services, search and rescue, infrastructure inspection, security operations and oil and gas applications, according to Urban Air Mobility News. The training and skills-development workshop in the September lineup echoes a pattern seen elsewhere in Oman's tech sector this year, where the government has paired new infrastructure ambitions with dedicated talent pipelines, much as it did when Omani engineers were sent to train in Taiwan's semiconductor labs to support the country's chip ambitions.

🇴🇲 Why This Matters for Oman

A national AAM strategy is ultimately an airspace rulebook, and rulebooks determine who gets to fly commercially first. For Omani logistics firms, hospitals in remote governorates like Al Wusta and Dhofar, and any startup building drone or eVTOL hardware or software, the workshops running this month are the clearest signal yet of which use cases MTCIT and the CAA intend to prioritise and how the sector will be financed. With the investment and PPP session set for September 23, the next few weeks should show whether Oman's air mobility ambitions attract the same kind of capital commitments that have flowed into its data centre and telecom infrastructure projects this year.