Archer Aviation has announced the completion of Midnight’s city-to-city roundtrip flight between Salinas and Hollister, CA – the first stop on the company’s ‘No Roads’ flight tour.
The round trip between Salinas Municipal Airport and Hollister Municipal Airport took the aircraft roughly 12 minutes each way, a journey that can take around 40 minutes or longer by car.
During the journey, the all-electric aircraft reached speeds of 125 mph, cruised at 3,550 feet and covered more than 40 miles.
The flight itself follows Archer’s launch of plans for its No Roads flight tour, as well as a stretch of more than 70 completed flight tests in August – including Midnight’s piloted roundtrip journey between Salinas Municipal Airport and Monterey Regional Airport.
Archer’s tour is now set to continue across Northern California, and will include planned flights to Monterey, San Martin, San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco.
Working with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and local partners; this series of flights will enable Midnight to begin flying within the Los Angeles area, as well as conduct operations under the White House’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP) in Texas, Florida and New York.
Adam Goldstein, Founder and CEO of Archer, said:On Friday, Midnight flew between two California communities in a fraction of the time the trip would take by car.
That’s the point of the ‘No Roads’ tour: bring Midnight to cities across America, fly real routes, and build the operational muscle for eIPP operations and LA28 alongside the FAA. Every route we fly makes the next one easier. By the time the world comes to LA for the Games, people will be ready for it.
