A visionary European Transport system should be based on an environmentally sustainable, cost efficient, seamless and co-modal passenger friendly system aiming at ensuring mobility and cohesion for the Europeans. The challenge is to create a new component of European transport by wider use of small aircraft using regional airports, to enable access to more communities in less time. The FP6 “EPATS (European Personal Air Transport System) Study” showed that 7% of the future car travel in 2020 could be shifted to Small Aircraft Transport Systems (SATS).The FP7 study called “SAT – Roadmap” will set out a technology roadmap for the research actions necessary to implement such a transport system.