Deployment
Archer Midnight at Palo Alto
Five-seat eVTOL aircraft with 12 tilt-six rotors. Targeting 60-mile range at 150 mph. FAA G-1 Issue Paper issued; Type Certificate application in progress. United Airlines launch customer.
Archer Midnight by Archer Aviation · Operated by Archer Aviation · Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified · Drones
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Archer Midnight eVTOL test flights at Salinas Municipal Airport and company flight test facility in California. FAA Part 135 and TC in progress. No commercial service yet.
Key facts
- Fleet
- Archer Midnight eVTOL
- Operator
- Archer Aviation
- Coverage
- Salinas Municipal Airport and company flight test facility, California
- Status
- Test flights; no commercial service yet
- Regulatory
- FAA Part 135 and Type Certification in progress
Safety record
No incidents on record for Archer Midnight at Palo Alto.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
- Last updated
- 2026-07-10
- Model
- Archer Midnight
- Company
- Archer Aviation
- Location
- United States/California/Palo Alto
- Operator
- Archer Aviation
- Status
- operational
- Operator type
- maker operated
- ID
bd2e8fb1-1e86-4095-aab9-2a66eea8c945
Timeline
- Jun 2026created
- Jul 2026Current status: operational, reviewedLatest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.
On the deployment map
Archer Midnight operates in Palo Alto. Explore the full verified map:
Sources (2)
Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-10
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-10
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: development
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: aerial
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Archer Midnight at Palo Alto.Common questions
- What is the Archer Midnight deployment at Palo Alto?
- Archer Midnight, built by Archer Aviation, is recorded as a deployment at Palo Alto on the DEPLOY registry. Archer Aviation operates the deployment directly.
- Who operates Archer Midnight at Palo Alto?
- Archer Aviation, the manufacturer of Archer Midnight, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
- Have there been incidents at the Archer Midnight deployment at Palo Alto?
- No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.
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