Archer Selected as Official Air Taxi Provider of the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Team USA

Archer has today (Thurs­day) announced it has been select­ed as the Offi­cial Air Taxi Provider of the 2028 Sum­mer Olympic and Par­a­lympic Games in Los Ange­les and for Team USA.

This exclu­sive part­ner­ship will look to inte­grate Archer’s Mid­night eVTOL air­craft across the LA28 Games in a vari­ety of ways, such as trans­port­ing VIPs, fans and stake­hold­ers. It will also elec­tri­fy ver­ti­port take-off-and-land­ing hubs for key venues and pro­vid­ing sup­port for emer­gency ser­vices and secu­ri­ty.

The agree­ment also includes access to sto­ry­telling through­out NBCUniversal’s 2026 and 2028 Olympic Games cov­er­age, includ­ing moments like the 2028 Open­ing and Clos­ing Cer­e­monies in Los Ange­les. 

Adam Gold­stein, Archer CEO and Founder, will share more details about this announce­ment on Fal­lon Tonight, which airs at 11:35 ET on NBCU­ni­ver­sal.

Com­ment­ing on the announce­ment, Gold­stein said: “We want to trans­form the way peo­ple get around Los Ange­les and leave a lega­cy that shapes the future of trans­porta­tion in Amer­i­ca. There’s no bet­ter time to do that than dur­ing the LA28 Games.

“I can’t wait to see Mid­night fly­ing pas­sen­gers over Los Ange­les, embla­zoned with the Team USA logo and the Olympic Rings and Par­a­lympic Agi­tos.”

Archer and LA28 will intro­duce the company’s Mid­night eVTOL air­craft to Los Ange­les, which is expect­ed to host more than 15 mil­lion vis­i­tors and be broad­cast to bil­lions of peo­ple watch­ing glob­al­ly over the course of the Games. The part­ner­ship includes sup­port for Team USA through LA28.

Archer’s planned net­work in LA will include ver­ti­ports at key venues that are cen­tral to the LA28 Games, includ­ing the Sta­di­um in Ingle­wood and the Los Ange­les Memo­r­i­al Col­i­se­um.

Addi­tion­al­ly, the net­work is planned to include crit­i­cal vis­i­tor hubs, includ­ing Los Ange­les Inter­na­tion­al Air­port, Hol­ly­wood, Orange Coun­ty, and San­ta Mon­i­ca. 

Whether a Los Ange­les res­i­dent, or a vis­i­tor, Archer’s goal is for pas­sen­gers to be able to go to a ver­ti­port take-off and land­ing hub near a key venue and then fly 10–20 min­utes in Mid­night to their des­ti­na­tion of choice with­in Archer’s LA net­work, a valu­able option as Games spec­ta­tors and par­tic­i­pants move through­out the city.

Casey Wasser­man, LA28 Chair­per­son and Pres­i­dent, added: “At LA28, we’re build­ing a plat­form for con­stant inno­va­tion and cre­ativ­i­ty, which is why we’ve part­nered with for­ward-think­ing com­pa­nies like Archer.

“Our vision is to fun­da­men­tal­ly reimag­ine the Olympic and Par­a­lympic Games expe­ri­ence, and this part­ner­ship rep­re­sents an incred­i­ble oppor­tu­ni­ty to deliv­er some­thing unprece­dent­ed, show­cas­ing the very best of what Los Ange­les has to offer on the world stage.”

Mid­night is Archer’s pilot­ed elec­tric air taxi designed to car­ry up to four pas­sen­gers while pro­duc­ing less noise and emis­sions than a tra­di­tion­al heli­copter.

The eVTOL air­craft is built with redun­dant, fault-tol­er­ant sys­tems, includ­ing 12 total engines and pro­pellers, allow­ing Archer to tar­get cer­ti­fi­ca­tion with the FAA at sim­i­lar lev­els of safe­ty as com­mer­cial air­lin­ers. Mid­night is made in Amer­i­ca at Archer’s US man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ties in San Jose, Cal­i­for­nia, and Cov­ing­ton, Geor­gia.

The LA28 Games will mark Los Ange­les’ third time to host the Olympic Games, pre­vi­ous­ly host­ed in 1984 and 1932, and first time to host the Par­a­lympic Games.