Wisk Completes First Flight of Generation 6 Autonomous eVTOL

Wisk Completes First Flight of Generation 6 Autonomous eVTOL

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Wisk Aero completes first flight of Generation 6 autonomous aircraft

Wisk Aero’s Generation 6 aircraft features failsafe battery and propulsion systems to ensure end-to-end safety. | Source: Wisk Aero Wisk Aero yesterday said it has completed the first flight of its Generation 6 autonomous aircraft. The aircraft performed its initial vertical takeoff, hover, and stabilized flight maneuvers at the aviation company’s flight test facility in Hollister, Calif. “This first flight is the moment our team has been workin…

Boeing’s Wisk Self-Flying Air Taxi Makes First Flight

It’s not every day that a new aircraft makes its first flight. Even rarer is a first flight without a pilot in the cockpit. But that’s exactly how the inaugural sortie for the Generation 6—an autonomous, electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi being developed by Boeing’s Wisk Aero—played out. Wisk on Wednesday said the Gen 6—which it described as a “test article” of the model for which it is seeking FAA type certification—complete…

Why Wisk got off the ground when so many Boeing projects didn’t

Almost 16 years to the day since the first flight of the 787 Dreamliner, Boeing has finally flown an all-new commercial aircraft — this one with four passenger seats and no pilot. Wisk’s “Gen 6” electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft performed its maiden flight on the morning of Tuesday, Dec. 16 (the Dreamliner first flew on Dec. 15, 2009). While the bright yellow eVTOL developed by Boeing’s wholly-owned subsidiary would seem to […] The…

Wisk completes first Gen 6 eVTOL air taxi flight

Wisk Aero, a fully owned subsidiary of Boeing, has successfully completed the first flight of its Generation 6 aircraft, bringing autonomous passenger air taxis a step closer to commercial reality.  In a statement issued on December 16, 2025, Wisk announced that this achievement marks a significant industry milestone.  The company’s aim is for the Generation 6 aircraft to become the first autonomous passenger aircraft to achieve Federal Aviation…

Boeing-Backed Wisk Tests its First Autonomous eVTOL for Passenger Flight

US-based company Wisk Aero, backed by Boeing, completed the first flight of its Generation 6 autonomous electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL) on December 16 at its test facility in Hollister, California.  The company said the aircraft conducted a vertical take-off, hover, and stabilised flight as part of its certification programme in the United States. The flight marks the first test of an autonomous passenger aircraft that Wi…