Eve Air Mobility has completed the first flight of its full-scale electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL), marking a major milestone for Embraer’s advanced air mobility subsidiary as it enters the flight-test phase of its certification programme.

The uncrewed prototype flew for the first time on 19 December at Embraer’s test facility in Gavião Peixoto, São Paulo state. The initial sortie focused on a controlled hover and was designed to validate the integration of the aircraft’s core systems, including its fly-by-wire flight controls and fixed-pitch lifter rotor architecture.