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 division, successfully conducted the maiden uncrewed hover flight of its air taxi prototype, targeting certification and market entry by 2027, with regulators hoping for 2026.
The company is adopting a "certify to fly, not fly to certify" approach, prioritizing extensive ground testing and regulatory compliance before expanding its flight test campaign with six conforming prototypes.
Eve's air taxi features a distinct design utilizing eight fixed vertical-lift propellers and an electric pusher, aiming for initial piloted four-passenger service with a 60-mile range and boasting over 2,800 preorders.

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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.