Embraer’s Eve Begins Electric Air Taxi Flight Tests

Company anticipates certification, first deliveries, and entry into service as soon as 2027.

Jack Daleo

Saturday, December 20, 2025 at 08:00 AM ET

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Travis Tingle

Eve Air Mobility’s electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi prototype lifts off for the first time. [Credit: Eve Air Mobility]

Key Takeaways:

Eve Air Mobility, Embraer's eVTOL aircraft arm, successfully completed the first uncrewed hover flight of its air taxi engineering prototype.
The company aims for ANAC type certification, initial customer deliveries, and entry into service by 2027, with Brazilian regulators hoping for an even earlier 2026 timeline.
Eve is adopting a "certify to fly" approach, prioritizing extensive ground and component testing before an expanded flight test campaign using six conforming prototypes.
The piloted, four-passenger air taxi features a unique design with eight vertical-lift propellers and a rigid overhead wing, promising a 60-mile range and significantly lower operating costs than helicopters.

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Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxis are getting closer to reality.

Days after Boeing’s Wisk Aero shared the maiden sortie of its Generation 6 prototype, Eve Air Mobility, the eVTOL aircraft arm of Embraer, announced the first flight of its own air taxi. The uncrewed hover flight of Eve’s “engineering prototype”—a full-scale, nonconforming variant of the model it aims to certify with the FAA, Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC), and other regulators—lasted about one minute, the company told FLYING.