Transcend Air

US-based VTOL aircraft company headquartered in San Diego, California, founded in 2017. Transcend Air is developing the Vy 400 — a high-speed hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft for regional city-center air travel that is three times faster and goes twice as far as battery eVTOLs. The company plans to launch airline service in 2028 using zero-net-carbon sustainable aviation fuel from Prometheus Fuels. 18 prototypes have validated the design. Transcend targets 46+ US city-center pairs where service will be less expensive and five times faster than existing airlines. Key partners: General Electric (engines), IAI North America (militarization), KAMAN (manufacturing), US Air Force (development), VerdeGo Aero (hybrid components), Lily Helipads (vertiports), Prometheus Fuels (sustainable fuel).

Transcend Air has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: Vy 400 (Transcend Air builds physical robots).

Transcend Air is headquartered in San Diego, California, USA.

Transcend Air is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Transcend Air ranks in roughly the top 99% of companies tracked by the registry.

Transcend Air has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.