{"id":25572,"date":"2023-05-15T14:51:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T14:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=25572"},"modified":"2023-05-15T14:52:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T14:52:01","slug":"archer-rolls-out-first-midnight-aircraft-prepares-for-flight-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/archer-rolls-out-first-midnight-aircraft-prepares-for-flight-test\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Archer Rolls Out First Midnight Aircraft; Prepares for Flight Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Photo above shows Archer\u2019s Midnight aircraft in the front and Maker in the rear. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Archer Aviation Inc.<\/a> has announced it has now completed the final assembly of its first Midnight aircraft. With final assembly and initial testing complete, last week the aircraft was shipped from Archer\u2019s Palo Alto facility to its flight test facility in Salinas, California and reassembled. Archer will now take this aircraft through a series of ground tests leading up to its planned first flight this summer. The Midnight aircraft has recently garnered significant attention from the U.S. Department of Defense given its payload capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Midnight aircraft will enable Archer to perform\ncritical \u201ccompany testing\u201d to accelerate and reduce risk on its certification\nprogram with the Federal Aviation Administration (\u201cFAA\u201d) in advance of \u201cfor\ncredit\u201d certification testing that the company plans to begin early next year\nwith piloted Midnight aircraft. Our strategy with this aircraft is to allow\nArcher to fly many of the same test points that will be needed during piloted\n\u201cfor credit\u201d flight testing in order to further validate the aircraft before\nthe FAA witnesses and participates in the testing – a customary practice in\nmany aircraft certification programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Midnight aircraft<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Component manufacturing is already underway for Archer\u2019s\nconforming Midnight aircraft. Archer is targeting the completion of final\nassembly of its initial conforming Midnight aircraft in Q4 2023 and to begin\npiloted flight test operations in early 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday we announced our exciting progress that the final\nassembly of our first Midnight aircraft is now complete, and it is preparing\nfor its flight test program,\u201d said Adam Goldstein, Archer\u2019s Founder and CEO.\n\u201cThis aircraft will accelerate and reduce risk on our certification program\npaving the way for our team to focus on building and conducting piloted\noperations with conforming aircraft to support the goal of entering into\nservice in 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Archer\u2019s industry-leading team, alongside its key strategic\npartners, Stellantis and United Airlines, continues to advance its aircraft\ndevelopment and commercial operations with impressive speed and efficiency. The\ncompany has also established a significant lead over industry peers on the\nmanufacturing and commercial operations fronts with the build out of its\nhigh-volume manufacturing facility in Covington, Georgia underway and announced\nkey strategic electric air taxi routes in New York and Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a range of up to 100 miles, Archer\u2019s Midnight aircraft is designed to perform rapid back-to-back flights with minimal charge time in between. Archer\u2019s goal is to transform inter-city travel, replacing 60-90-minute commutes by car that can take over an hour in traffic with ~10-20 minute electric air taxi flights that are safe, sustainable, low noise and cost competitive with ground transportation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo above shows Archer\u2019s Midnight aircraft in the front and Maker in the rear. Archer Aviation Inc. has announced it has now completed the final assembly of its first Midnight aircraft. With final assembly and initial testing complete, last week the aircraft was shipped from Archer\u2019s Palo Alto facility to its flight test facility in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,116,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evtol","category-front-page-slider","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Midnight-edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25575,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25572\/revisions\/25575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}