Aska Completes First Test Flight of Its ‘Street Legal eVTOL’

Flying car manufacturer’s A5 can drive like an automobile, take off from the runway like an airplane, or ascend vertically like a helicopter.

Jack Daleo

Wednesday, August 02, 2023 at 04:13 PM ET

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Aska’s A5 full-scale prototype lifts off for its first flight tests. [Courtesy: Aska]

Key Takeaways:

Aska's full-scale A5 flying car prototype successfully completed its first airborne hover tests after receiving FAA approval for flight testing.
The A5 is a versatile "drive-and-fly" eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) vehicle designed to drive like an SUV, perform vertical takeoffs from helipads, and short takeoffs from runways.
Aska aims for FAA type certification (G-1 basis) and a 2026 launch for the $789,000 vehicle, with existing customer preorders already placed.

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We’re still a few decades away from 2062, but Jetsonian flying cars are already taking to the U.S. skies.

Aska, the Mountain View, California-based startup developing a car, electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL), fixed-wing glider amalgamation, this week completed the first airborne tests of its full-scale A5 flying car prototype. The successful test run comes about a month after the company received the green light for flight testing from the FAA.