Overview

• The piloted flight featured a vertical takeoff, transition to wingborne cruise and vertical landing over a roughly 12-minute, 10-nautical-mile route with a five-minute holding pattern at Monterey.
• Joby’s aircraft was sequenced alongside other traffic in controlled airspace, including accommodating an arriving airliner during the Monterey approach.
• The demonstration proved the company’s ability to conduct mobile flight tests and deliver full ground support operations away from its Marina base.
• Joby has begun final assembly of its first Type Inspection Authorization aircraft and expects FAA-piloted certification tests to commence early next year.
• Following FAA type certification, the company plans to launch commercial eVTOL passenger service in U.S. cities including Los Angeles and New York City.