Introducing Midnight – Electric Vertical Takeoff & Landing Aircraft
THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA
BATTERY & ENGINE INNOVATION
Purpose Built, Proprietary Technology By Our World-Class Engineering Team
We’re innovating in key areas of the technologies that enable the commercialization of eVTOL aircraft, such as the powertrain.
We’re building a proprietary electric powertrain system that is significantly more power dense and higher efficiency than what is in the market today while maintaining a long service life. The powertrain system will be powered by existing mass production cells that are designed with the highest safety standards in mind at both the cell and pack level.
A DIVERSIFIED COMMERCIALIZATION STRATEGY
Our Goal is to Deploy 6000 Aircraft By 2030
ARCHER DIRECT SALES
First Customer, United Airlines, Made $10 million Pre-Delivery Payment for 100 Midnights
Our planned OEM business, meaning we will sell our aircraft directly to customers. Our goal is that this line of business will provide meaningful cash flows to help finance build out of our UAM network.
URBAN AIR MOBILITY
Electric Aerial Ridesharing
with ArcherAir™
This targets moving people along 10-50 mile routes in city centers and beyond. Early launch markets will focus on highly congested cities, such as New York, Los Angeles and Miami.
We expect that early launch routes will be “trunk” routes from airport to city center as we believe there is known demand and strong willingness to pay with a focus on launching these routes in collaboration with partners like United. We will follow on with “branch” routes to broader locations.
The first phase is expected to rely on existing and retrofitted infrastructure. As we scale, we expect to collaborate with aligned development partners to build higher throughput take off and landing infrastructure.
FLIGHT IS SIMULATED
THE FUTURE OF MOVEMENT
Archer’s Projected Timeline
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2021 – Certification Basis and Conceptual Design Review
2022 – Means of Compliance and Preliminary Design Review
2023 – Methods of Compliance, Critical Design Review, Ground Testing and Analysis
2024 – Compliance Findings and Flight Testing
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Continue to build best in class organization
Work to ensure Midnight is optimized for business case
Goal of FAA Type Certification for Midnight in late 2024
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Build out UAM “trunk” & “branch” operations
Focus on retrofitting heliports & regional airports
Work to scale up manufacturing to ~2,000 aircraft/year
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Achieve high volume manufacturing targets
High rate of flight operations and introduce autonomy
Continue powertrain systems & acoustics innovatio