Vehicles · PAL-V

Liberty

Three-wheeled roadable gyroplane

Orange and black PAL-V Liberty three-wheeled gyroplane car with its rotor folded on the roof
Photo: Vauxford · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Certifying

Price / deposit
€299,000 to €499,000; first 250 sold, order book closed (per NOS)
Certification, as written on the tracker
EASA Production Organisation Approval (Sep 2026); RDW automotive manufacturer recognition (Mar 2026). Aircraft type certification not yet complete.
Delivery / launch
Could be flying in 2028; CEO says roughly 18 months of further testing after first production builds
Tracker updated

Certificates

A special or experimental airworthiness certificate, a production approval and an operator certificate are not type certificates. Standing is taken from the linked source.

VehicleDocumentStandingDateWhat the source saysSources
Production organisation approval (not a type certificate)
Issued
PAL-V said in September 2026 that EASA had approved its production organisation, which authorises manufacture. all-electronics.de reported the date as September 7, 2026, and wrote that this is not a completed type certificate. The aircraft type certificate is not issued.

Orders and other deals

DateKindPartiesAmountWhat the source saysSources
Reservation
Conditional
Not stated. PAL-V says reservations would fill the first three years of production
PAL-V said in September 2026 that its reservation portfolio would fill the first three years of production. It did not give a number, a price, or say the reservations are firm orders. all-electronics.de reported the same reservation claim and said type certification was still open.

Milestones

DateVehicleKindEventSources
Certification step
EASA production organisation approvalPAL-V announced the approval in September 2026. all-electronics.de reported the date as September 7, 2026, and said it is not a completed type certificate.

Slipped timeline

Video

PAL-V Testing Production Model

PAL-V on YouTube · Nov 20, 2019 PAL-V's 2019 film of Liberty production-model testing. Video and poster: PAL-V · Watch on YouTube

Tracker sources