
Companies / Autonomy / Manned / piloted
Manned / piloted
Aircraft designed for an onboard pilot at entry into service.


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Airbus CityAirbus (lineage)
Airbus Helicopters eVTOL demonstrator lineage (Vahana → CityAirbus NextGen); program paused
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Archer Aviation
Piloted all-electric Midnight air taxi; FAA certification in progress
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ARIDGE (formerly XPENG AeroHT)
Modular Land Aircraft Carrier flying car and tilt-rotor flying-car programs
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Ascendance Flight Technologies
French hybrid-electric VTOL Atea for regional passenger, cargo, and EMS
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Bell Nexus (Textron)
Legacy Bell/Textron eVTOL concept; eAviation unit dissolved and program slowed
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BETA Technologies
ALIA electric VTOL and CTOL aircraft for passenger, cargo, and utility missions
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Electra.aero
Hybrid-electric Ultra Short eSTOL (not VTOL) — EL2 demonstrator / EL9 production design
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Horizon Aircraft
Canadian hybrid fan-in-wing Cavorite X7 VTOL for passenger/cargo regional missions
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Jaunt Air Mobility
Slowed Rotor Compound (SRC) VTOL for passenger and cargo missions
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Defunct
Overair
Butterfly tiltrotor eVTOL; ceased operations (2025); IP/staff links to Archer reported
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PAL-V
Dutch roadable flying car (gyrocopter-based Liberty) — adjacent to air-taxi discourse
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SkyDrive
Japanese compact multicopter eVTOL SD-05 for short-hop piloted air mobility
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Supernal (Hyundai Motor Group)
Hyundai AAM subsidiary; S-A2 eVTOL concept — aircraft development paused (2025)
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Vertical Aerospace
UK eVTOL OEM; VX4 prototype / Valo commercial aircraft for piloted passenger service
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Acquired
Volocopter
German multicopter eVTOL pioneer; reorganized under Diamond Aircraft / Wanfeng after insolvency
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