Archer to unveil its production aircraft Midnight at Open House Event in California next month

Archer has announced it will be unveil­ing Mid­night, the company’s first pro­duc­tion eVTOL air­craft, at an Open House event on Novem­ber 16th at the com­pa­ny’s offices in San Jose, Cal­i­for­nia, reports a press release.

The occa­sion will offer fur­ther details on Midnight’s spec­i­fi­ca­tions and capa­bil­i­ties, includ­ing its pro­pri­etary elec­tric pow­er­train sys­tem, as well as the company’s progress towards FAA cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. The tim­ing of the Mid­night unveil is ahead of the company’s planned 2023 sched­ule.

Adam Gold­stein

Adam Gold­stein, Archer’s CEO, com­ment­ed, “We’ve made phe­nom­e­nal progress in the devel­op­ment of our eVTOL tech­nol­o­gy and I am excit­ed to share the air­craft that will deliv­er on that vision as part of our Open House.”

In August, Archer first announced Mid­night, fol­low­ing the suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of the aircraft’s Pre­lim­i­nary Design Review (PDR). The release states, “The PDR cov­ered all aspects of the aircraft’s spec­i­fi­ca­tions and man­u­fac­tur­ing require­ments, nec­es­sary pre-con­di­tions for deter­mi­na­tions that the design is fea­si­ble for reg­u­la­to­ry com­pli­ance and viable to bring to mar­ket.”

Dur­ing the same month, Unit­ed Air­lines made a USD10m pre-deliv­ery pay­ment for 100 Mid­night air­craft, fur­ther sig­nalling the carrier’s con­fi­dence in its devel­op­ment.

The air­craft is Archer’s pilot­ed-plus-four-pas­sen­ger eVTOL, which it intends to sell to cus­tomers like Unit­ed Air­lines and utilise in its planned urban air mobil­i­ty ser­vice. Atten­dees of the Open House will have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to view a tri­al flight of the full-scale tech­nol­o­gy demon­stra­tor at Archer’s flight test facil­i­ty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpYlrXpJ8NM

Mid­night is expect­ed to have a pay­load of 1,000+ pounds, which sup­ports four pas­sen­gers and a pilot, and a charg­ing turn­around time of approx­i­mate­ly 10 min­utes for the company’s tar­get flights.

Part­ners par­tic­i­pat­ing in the event will include Unit­ed Air­lines, as well as glob­al auto­mo­tive man­u­fac­tur­er, Stel­lan­tis. The lat­ter has been work­ing with Archer since ear­ly in the eVTOL aircraft’s devel­op­ment and is a key part­ner in the company’s plans to achieve man­u­fac­tur­ing at scale.

Tom Muniz, Archer’s Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer, said, “Col­lab­o­ra­tion has always been a cor­ner­stone of our mis­sion and I can’t wait to stand along­side the Archer team next month to share how togeth­er we are bring­ing our long-term plans to life.”

Con­tent from the event will be post­ed after­wards on Archer’s web­site and social media chan­nels.

For more infor­ma­tion
https://www.archer.com