Honda eVTOL Achieves Key Milestone with Successful First Flight of Full-Scale Test Aircraft

On April 1, a flight test was conducted in San Luis Obispo County, California, where a full-scale technology demonstrator weighing approximately 7,000 pounds successfully completed its first flight, lasting about 90 seconds.

This first full-scale flight builds on research and development efforts that began in 2020, along with more than 400 flight tests conducted using subscale models.
With this milestone, development advances into the full-scale validation phase, where the foundational technologies of eVTOL are being verified at real scale.
We will continue to build on this progress toward the next stage of development.