Overview

• The suspension covers development of the S‑A2 air taxi, a battery‑electric eVTOL designed to carry four passengers and a pilot.
• Supernal confirmed the Aug. 31 departure of CEO Jaiwon Shin, and multiple outlets report that CTO David McBride has also left.
• Senior executive David Rottblatt is overseeing business operations as interim COO during the transition.
• The company logged a technology‑demonstrator’s first flight earlier in 2025 but had not achieved an untethered, representative flight before the pause.
• Recent cutbacks included summer layoffs and the late‑2024 wind‑down of a Washington, D.C., office, with the broader sector seeing delays such as Airbus pausing its CityAirbus NextGen program.