Archer Aviation

I'm calling to ask your thoughts on an American aerospace company that is bringing transformational transportation and technology to Texas and the world named

Archer Aviation.

Okay, Archer is a pure spec.

It's a pure spec.

Now they're targeting 7,500 and hiring another 1,000 employees.

And Archer Aviation with their eVTOLs, electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles.

They're planning a kind of triangulation of sites in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston, bringing electric flight to Texas.

Well, that's the plan.

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In transportation, Archer Aviation has outlined a planned air taxi network that would link Houston-area airports, downtown and Galveston.

The company says 60- to 90-minute drives could become 10- to 20-minute flights.

Demonstration flights could start next year, with fares expected to cost at least $100.

How about these new air taxis that are coming to Austin? It could be making getting around the airport a whole lot easier.

It's called Archer Aviation.

Well, they've announced plans for three separate air taxi networks.

One that will fly across Austin, just right over our city.

Yeah, it is.

Additional routes are also planned from Houston to Dallas, which will connect airports in the Metroplexes.

Now, Archer Aviation's midnight electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle carries four passengers plus a pilot.

It looks like a drone, but it's much bigger.

This is ATIS on Radio Hangar.

Let's talk about Archer Aviation's Midnight aircraft, which completed three demonstration flights over the San Francisco Bay Area last week, and what those flights actually mean for the airspace you already fly in.

First, let me set up what Midnight is, because context here matters more than the headline.

Archer Aviation is one of a dozen plus companies currently pursuing Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, type certification for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, what the industry calls EVTOL.

Midnight is their production intent aircraft.

Not a scaled model, not a proof of concept held together with carbon fiber and optimism.

Look at this thing.

San Jose-based Archer Aviation says it has completed several days of flights around the Bay.

It started test operations in San Jose, Oakland, Mountain View, and other cities.

The flights were meant to show the company's ability to operate in our airspace and how it can help bypass gridlock on the roads.

We certainly have made it clear, and the secretary of transportation and the ministry of the FAA has made it clear, we will be operating commercially by L.A. 28, by the Olympics.

MILES O' San Jose-based Archer Aviation is the official air taxi provider for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The company plans to carry as many as four paying passengers at a time on 10- to 20-minute flights across greater Los Angeles.

It will be an important PR milestone.