An independent record of the flying car race

FlyingCars.report tracks flying cars, personal eVTOLs and air taxis, from first prototype to first customer delivery. The industry produces a lot of announcements and renderings and very few certificates. We keep a plain, sourced record of what has actually happened, next to what was promised.

Independent

We are not affiliated with any manufacturer, operator, investor or regulator. No company has paid for coverage or placement, and nothing here is investment advice.

How we work

• Every figure, date and quote links to the source we took it from. We prefer regulator documents, company filings and press releases, then established news outlets.
• If we can't verify a figure, we leave it out.
• Company targets are labelled as targets. When a date moves, we log it in slipped timelines.
• We separate approvals that are often blurred together: type certificates, production approvals, operator certificates and experimental permits.
• We publish when something real happens: a certification, a delivery, a price change or a delay.

Image credits

Vehicle photos are either freely licensed (mostly from Wikimedia Commons, credited with author, license and source) or official manufacturer press images, credited to the company. We never use generated images or a photo of a different vehicle in place of the real one. Where no legally usable real photo exists, the tracker shows an original, stylized illustration captioned "Illustration, not a photograph". It is never a photorealistic image of the specific vehicle. The illustrations (home page, banners and some story headers) are original artwork, not photos of any real vehicle.

• Alef Aeronautics Model A: Alef Model A prototype on display, 2022. Photo: Savva Beliy · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons.
• Aridge Land Aircraft Carrier (ground vehicle): Aridge Land Aircraft Carrier, the six-wheel ground vehicle that carries the aircraft, at Auto Guangzhou 2025. Photo: Tim Wu · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons.
• Aridge Land Aircraft Carrier (aircraft module): The detachable two-seat aircraft of the Aridge Land Aircraft Carrier, at Auto Guangzhou 2025. Photo: Tim Wu · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons.
• Tesla Roadster (next generation): Next-generation Tesla Roadster prototype at the Computer History Museum, 2019 (road car shown, not the flying version). Photo: Editor928111 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons.
• Pivotal Helix: Pivotal Helix on display before a demonstration flight in Sausalito, California, July 4, 2024 (still from a VOA News video). Photo: Voice of America · Public domain (US government work) · Wikimedia Commons (VOA News video).
• PAL-V Liberty: PAL-V Liberty Pioneer Edition at Salon Privé, Blenheim Palace, 2019. Photo: Vauxford · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons.
• PAL-V Liberty: PAL-V Liberty at IAA Mobility, Munich, 2021. Photo: Alexander Migl · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons.
• Klein Vision AirCar: AirCar prototype in flight. This is the earlier prototype from Klein Vision's 2021 press gallery, not the current production version. Image: Klein Vision (manufacturer press image).
• ASKA A5: ASKA A5 prototype on display at CES 2023, Las Vegas. Image: ASKA (manufacturer press image).
• Joby Aviation S4: Joby S4 at Edwards Air Force Base after a ground test, September 2023 (US Air Force photo). Photo: Harlan Huntington, US Air Force · Public domain (US government work) · Wikimedia Commons.
• Archer Aviation Midnight: Archer Midnight during a flight test (Stellantis media gallery for its Archer partnership, 2024). Image: Stellantis (manufacturer press image).
• EHang EH216-S: EHang EH216-S at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget, 2025. Photo: Artvill · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons.
• Wisk Gen 6: Wisk Gen 6 autonomous air taxi, 2024. Photo: Airtaxis2030 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons.
• BETA Technologies ALIA CX300: BETA ALIA CX300 (N401NZ) at Auckland Airport, December 2025. Photo: Umedha Hettigoda · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons.
• Eve Air Mobility eVTOL (Eve-100) prototype: Eve's full-scale eVTOL prototype flying at Embraer's Gavião Peixoto site, Brazil, March 2026. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert / PR (Lula Oficial) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons.
• Lilium Jet: Full-scale Lilium Jet cabin mock-up at the Paris Air Show, 2023. Photo: Mathious Ier · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons.

Videos

Videos are embedded from the manufacturers' own YouTube channels. Each one is checked against YouTube's oEmbed record so the title and channel match what we list. The poster frames are the channels' official YouTube thumbnails, hosted here so nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.

• Alef flying car flying over Tesla Roadster and Tesla Cybertruck (not AI, real video): Alef Aeronautics on YouTube, Oct 13, 2026 · watch.
• Demonstration flight for His Majesty King Abdullah II | Land Aircraft Carrier: ARIDGE on YouTube, Aug 21, 2026 · watch.
• Roadster Event: Tesla on YouTube, Oct 15, 2026 · watch.
• Meet the Pivotal Helix eVTOL aircraft: Pivotal on YouTube, Nov 19, 2025 · watch.
• PAL-V Testing Production Model: PAL-V on YouTube, Nov 20, 2019 · watch.
• The flying car completes first ever inter-city flight (Official Video): KleinVision on YouTube, Jun 29, 2021 · watch.
• ASKA A5 : Flight and Drive Testing in California: ASKA™ Flying Car on YouTube, Feb 18, 2026 · watch.
• Joby Aviation Flies in Dubai: Joby Aviation on YouTube, Jun 30, 2025 · watch.
• Midnight Piloted Flight with CTOL | Full Flight Video: Archer on YouTube, Jun 2, 2025 · watch.
• Certified EH216-S Successfully Completed Debut Commercial Flight Demonstrations in Guangzhou & Hefei: EHang on YouTube, Dec 28, 2023 · watch.
• Vertical Aerospace Piloted Transition Full Flight: Vertical Aerospace on YouTube, Apr 27, 2026 · watch.
• Wisk Gen 6 | First Flight: Vertical Takeoff & Hover: Wisk Aero on YouTube, Dec 17, 2025 · watch.
• ALIA over the Wright Brothers Monument: BETA TECHNOLOGIES on YouTube, Sep 21, 2026 · watch.
• Eve's eVTOL prototype first hover flight: Eve Air Mobility on YouTube, Jan 17, 2026 · watch.
• Lilium Jet achieves full transition on wings and canards: Lilium on YouTube, Sep 27, 2022 · watch.

CC BY-SA images are used unmodified apart from resizing and, for the Pivotal Helix video still, cropping. Spotted a credit problem? See corrections below.

Corrections

If something here is wrong or out of date, we want to fix it. A corrections contact address will be published here soon. Corrected stories will carry a note saying what changed.