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Archer Wraps Up Bay Area ‘No Roads’ eVTOL Demo Tour
Midnight prototype is now heading to Los Angeles for the eVTOL Integration Pilot Program
Archer's Midnight eVTOL aircraft in San Francisco
Archer's Midnight eVTOL aircraft has conducted pilot flight trials into airports across the San Francisco Bay Area. © Archer Aviation

Archer Aviation has completed an extensive campaign of piloted flight tests in Northern California with its Midnight eVTOL aircraft. On Monday, the company said the prototype is now being moved to the Los Angeles area after a week of flights in and around San Francisco Bay from a base at Oakland International Airport (KOAK).

The so-called ‘No Roads’ tour series of trial operations started at Salinas Municipal Airport (KSNS) at the end of July with a round-trip flight to Monterey Regional Airport (KMRY). Over the past week, Archer’s flight test team has taken the Midnight to larger cities to encounter more complex airspace with stops in Hollister, San Martin, San Jose, Mountain View and Hayward

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