Wisk’s Flight Test Program Accelerates As Second Generation of its Gen 6 Aircraft Takes Flight

Wisk has com­plet­ed the first flight of its sec­ond Gen­er­a­tion 6 air­craft, in the lat­est mile­stone in the com­pa­ny’s flight test pro­gram and scale after the first Gen 6 air­craft start­ed its flight test cam­paign in Decem­ber 2025.

Con­duct­ed at Wisk’s flight test facil­i­ty in Hol­lis­ter, Cal­i­for­nia, on Fri­day, May 1st, the flight includ­ed ver­ti­cal take­off, hov­er, and chirp maneu­vers — an impor­tant first step in char­ac­ter­iz­ing the air­craft’s per­for­mance.

The addi­tion of a sec­ond active Gen 6 flight test vehi­cle sig­nif­i­cant­ly expands Wisk’s capac­i­ty to col­lect data, val­i­date sys­tems, and accel­er­ate the flight test cam­paign.

Sebastien Vigneron, CEO of Wisk, said: “See­ing the sec­ond Gen 6 air­craft take to the skies is a proud moment for Wisk. This pace of exe­cu­tion is exact­ly what is required to meet the rig­or­ous safe­ty stan­dards of com­mer­cial avi­a­tion.

“Hav­ing mul­ti­ple air­craft in flight test­ing allows us to move faster, learn quick­er, and stay on the lead­ing edge of autonomous avi­a­tion. Every flight pro­vides cru­cial data that matures our air­craft and autonomous sys­tem, bring­ing us one step clos­er to deliv­er­ing a cer­ti­fied, autonomous air taxi ser­vice.” 

The dual-air­craft test­ing phase will focus on expand­ing the flight enve­lope, includ­ing tran­si­tions from hov­er to wing-borne flight, while con­tin­u­ing to refine the con­trol laws and sys­tem per­for­mance. Wisk’s Gen 6 air­craft is designed to meet or exceed cur­rent com­mer­cial avi­a­tion safe­ty stan­dards.

The air­craft is all-elec­tric and autonomous, with human over­sight from a ground-based oper­a­tor — a mod­el Wisk believes is nec­es­sary for safe­ty, scal­a­bil­i­ty, and afford­abil­i­ty.

This increase in flight test capac­i­ty direct­ly sup­ports Wisk’s path to com­mer­cial­iza­tion, along with the U.S. Depart­ment of Transportation’s selec­tion of Wisk’s part­ner,  the Texas Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion (TxDOT), for the Elec­tric Ver­ti­cal Take­off and Land­ing (eVTOL) and Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) Inte­gra­tion Pilot Pro­gram (eIPP).

Wisk will use its autonomous sys­tems and air­craft to dri­ve the program’s oper­a­tional exe­cu­tion, con­duct­ing real-world flight oper­a­tions in the U.S. Nation­al Air­space. In addi­tion to its work in Texas, Wisk con­tin­ues to col­lab­o­rate close­ly with the FAA and NASA to cement U.S. lead­er­ship in AAM.