Eve Air Mobility Progresses Flight Test Campaign and Flies Full-Scale eVTOL Prototype for Brazilian Authorities

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty has suc­cess­ful­ly con­duct­ed a flight of its full-scale engi­neer­ing pro­to­type for Brazil­ian gov­ern­ment author­i­ties, includ­ing Brazil’s Pres­i­dent Luiz Iná­cio Lula da Sil­va.

The mile­stone, which was com­plet­ed at Embraer’s test facil­i­ty in Gav­ião Peixo­to, Brazil, marks fur­ther progress in Eve’s flight test cam­paign toward the future cer­ti­fi­ca­tion path­way of its eVTOL air­craft.

The event was also attend­ed by the Min­is­ter of Sci­ence, Tech­nol­o­gy and Inno­va­tion, Luciana San­tos; the Min­is­ter of Ports and Air­ports, Sil­vio Cos­ta Fil­ho; the Nation­al Civ­il Avi­a­tion Agency of Brazil (ANAC) Pres­i­dent, Tia­go Cha­gas Faier­stein; Brazil’s Nation­al Devel­op­ment Bank (BNDES) Pres­i­dent, Aloizio Mer­cadante; and mem­bers of the media cov­er­ing the sec­tor.

Flight Progress

Eve con­tin­ues advanc­ing its flight test cam­paign, with its engi­neer­ing pro­to­type hav­ing com­plet­ed 35 flights and accu­mu­lat­ed near­ly 1.5 hours of total flight time since its first flight in Decem­ber 2025.

The air­craft has reached an alti­tude of 140 feet above ground lev­el (AGL), equiv­a­lent to 43 meters, estab­lish­ing new pro­gram mile­stones and demon­strat­ing con­sis­tent flight behav­ior under the test­ed con­di­tions, includ­ing maneu­vers with simul­ta­ne­ous inputs across three axes.

Pre­lim­i­nary results indi­cate effi­cien­cy gains, with propul­sion and bat­tery per­for­mance above ini­tial expec­ta­tions, while noise lev­els remain with­in pro­jec­tions, sig­nif­i­cant­ly low­er than those of con­ven­tion­al heli­copters.

Flights con­duct­ed to date have focused on low-speed oper­a­tions (up to 15 knots, approx­i­mate­ly 28 km/h), enabling val­i­da­tion of con­trol laws, rotor aero­dy­nam­ic effi­cien­cy, ther­mal behav­ior and the propul­sion mod­el. Eve con­tin­ues to advance its cam­paign, expand­ing the flight enve­lope and test­ing at high­er speeds.

Johann Bor­dais, CEO of Eve, said: “We are advanc­ing with dis­ci­pline and con­sis­ten­cy in our flight test cam­paign, reduc­ing risk and build­ing the foun­da­tion for future cer­ti­fi­ca­tion flights.

“The results achieved in these first months fol­low­ing our ini­tial flight in Decem­ber 2025 rein­force our con­fi­dence in the aircraft’s archi­tec­ture and our abil­i­ty to deliv­er a safe, effi­cient and scal­able solu­tion for the urban air mobil­i­ty mar­ket.”

Con­tin­u­ing momen­tum

In addi­tion to flight tests, Eve has com­plet­ed ground test­ing and relat­ed activ­i­ties, includ­ing sen­sor cal­i­bra­tion for mea­sur­ing aero­dy­nam­ic loads dur­ing flight. These efforts sup­port the expan­sion of the aircraft’s flight enve­lope, enabling flights of up to 30 knots (approx­i­mate­ly 56 km/h) in the com­ing days.

Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of the air­craft remains sub­ject to the suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of tech­ni­cal mile­stones and approval by the rel­e­vant reg­u­la­to­ry author­i­ties.

Fran­cis­co Gomes Neto, Pres­i­dent and CEO of Embraer, added: “Embraer has over five decades of proven exper­tise in air­craft devel­op­ment and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. Apply­ing this knowl­edge to Eve’s pro­gram rein­forces our com­mit­ment to inno­va­tion and the future of sus­tain­able avi­a­tion.

“We see sig­nif­i­cant poten­tial in the glob­al urban air mobil­i­ty mar­ket and believe Eve is well posi­tioned to be a leader in this indus­try.”

In par­al­lel with tech­ni­cal progress, Eve con­tin­ues to sup­port the devel­op­ment of the reg­u­la­to­ry and insti­tu­tion­al frame­work for urban air mobil­i­ty.

Last week, the com­pa­ny par­tic­i­pat­ed in the launch of a pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion process that will inform Brazil’s Nation­al Urban Air Mobil­i­ty Pol­i­cy, led by the Min­istry of Ports and Air­ports.

Eve is also sup­port­ed by BNDES, which has pro­vid­ed more than BRL 1.4 bil­lion in financ­ing since 2022, and by Finep (the Brazil­ian Fund­ing Author­i­ty for Stud­ies and Projects), which has approved up to BRL 90 mil­lion in grants to accel­er­ate Eve’s dig­i­tal inno­va­tion and sus­tain­able avi­a­tion ini­tia­tives.

The com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to advance its port­fo­lio of advanced air mobil­i­ty solu­tions, includ­ing Eve Vec­tor, its urban air traf­fic man­age­ment soft­ware, and Eve Tech­Care, its after­mar­ket ser­vices and oper­a­tional sup­port plat­form, while active­ly engag­ing with reg­u­la­tors and pub­lic-pri­vate ini­tia­tives to fos­ter the ecosys­tem required for entry into ser­vice and long-term mar­ket scal­a­bil­i­ty.