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 · Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified
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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.
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- Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified
- Last updated
- 2026-06-07
- Model
- Archer Midnight
- Company
- Archer Aviation
- Location
- Palo Alto
- Status
- operational
- ID
bd2e8fb1-1e86-4095-aab9-2a66eea8c945
Sources (1)
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-07
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Verified
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Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-06-07
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: development
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: aerial
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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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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