Air taxi maker Archer fêtes first fully assembled Midnight eVTOL

Electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL) developer Archer Aviation has announced the completed assembly of its first Midnight air taxi – the basis on which the company will launch production and air taxi services once the craft obtains certification.

Archer announced the milestone of producing the first completely assembled version of its Midnight air taxi on Thursday. The company added the eVTOL has also acquitted itself admirably during a subsequent series of initial tests, before it was broken down for transport from the company’s Palo Alto, CA headquarters to its test flight facility in Salinas.

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An earlier eVTOL craft known as Maker was succeeded by the current Midnight iteration of the firm’s air taxi. Together, those two battery-powered planes went through nearly two years of trials as Archer altered, adapted, and improved the aircraft,…