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Midnight aircraft will provide an opportunity to streamline everyday urban congestion challenges, in addition to other use cases.
This month’s roundup includes new personnel announcements made by Archer Aviation, ORNL and Bye Aerospace.
Archer Aviation’s intentional strategies have yielded a simpler and more focused scope of certification work, paving the way for the start of its first “for credit” testing by early 2024.
Archer plans to initially build out a 350,000-square-foot facility capable of producing up to 650 aircraft/year, with room to expand up to 2,300 aircraft/year.
Midnight will enable perform critical “company testing” to accelerate and reduce risk on Archer’s certification program, following a successful two-year flight test campaign with Maker.
Stellantis is to contribute advanced manufacturing technology and expertise, experienced personnel and capital, in addition to help stand up Archer’s new composites manufacturing facility, with the ultimate goal of becoming Archer’s exclusive contract manufacturer.
Midnight is the evolution of Archer’s demonstrator eVTOL aircraft, Maker, which has validated its proprietary 12-tilt-six configuration and key enabling technologies.
Archer to provide data from upcoming flight tests to further the USAF’s understanding of its eVTOL capabilities, systems and development progression.
O’Hare International Airport (ORD) to Vertiport Chicago will be the next point-to-point route of the partners’ urban air mobility (UAM) network buildout.
All major aerostructures and systems have been built and installed to begin pilot flight test operations with the conforming composite aircraft in early 2024.