Eve Air Mobility has completed a dedicated block of hover and low-speed flight tests with its full-scale, uncrewed eVTOL prototype in Brazil, moving the program closer to transition and wingborne-flight trials. The prototype, based at Embraer’s Gavião Peixoto facility, has now accumulated around 50 successful flights focused on vertical takeoff, hover, and low-speed maneuvers, according to the company.
The initial campaign followed Eve’s first hover flight in mid-December 2025, which validated the integration of key systems including a fifth-generation fly-by-wire concept and fixed-pitch lifter rotors. Subsequent sorties expanded the low-speed envelope and provided data on controls, propulsion behavior, and overall aircraft handling in the lift-and-cruise configuration.
With the hover and low-speed objectives achieved, Eve plans to begin envelope expansion and transition flights later this year, progressing toward full wingborne flight. The company intends to build six conforming prototypes for a broader certification campaign and is working with Brazil’s civil aviation authority ANAC, as well as the FAA and EASA. Eve is targeting type certification and entry into service of its four-passenger eVTOL in the 2026–2027 timeframe.