Overview
- The untethered maiden sortie occurred December 16 at Wisk’s Hollister, California test site, performing vertical takeoff, hover, and brief forward movement on a preprogrammed plan that lasted about one minute.
- Generation 6 is the company’s active FAA type certification platform as Wisk seeks approval for what it says could be the first passenger-carrying autonomous eVTOL in the United States.
- Early flight testing will focus on hover, repeated takeoffs and landings, and low-speed stability before expanding to higher speeds, altitudes, and transitions while validating models and systems performance.
- The four-passenger aircraft is fully electric and autonomous, using onboard sensing and computing to fly predefined routes under oversight from remote Multi-Vehicle Supervisors.
- Wisk cites more than 1,750 prior test flights across six generations and is pursuing IFR certification with NASA collaboration, targeting a commercial timeline that includes cities such as Houston, Miami, and Los Angeles before 2030.