Archer Announces ‘No Roads’ Domestic Flight Tour to Showcase Electric Air Taxi

(San Jose, California) Archer Aviation (NYSE: ACHR) announced today (Sept. 3) the launch of its ‘No Roads’ flight tour, which will expand its city-to-city electric air taxi flight test program across the United States, beginning in Northern California.

Image of Archer’s ‘No Roads’ flight tour ‘poster’ courtesy of Archer Aviation.

Archer’s first flight will take place in Hollister, with additional flights planned in Monterey, San Martin, San Jose, Oakland, and San Francisco shortly after, per Archer. The tour follows more than 70 completed test flights in August alone and Midnight’s recent piloted roundtrip journey from Salinas Municipal Airport and Monterey Regional Airport on July 30th.

Per Archer, the goal of the tour is to showcase “the advantages electric air taxis will bring: low noise, zero operating emissions, and the ability to skip over traffic—featuring flights on routes that can take an hour or more by car, but just 10–20 minutes in the air.”

Archer will also unveil charging locations across multiple states as part of its ACES (America’s Consortium for Electric Skyways) program with BETA Technologies (NYSE: BETA) and Macquarie Capital.

Image of the view from Archer’s Midnight eVTOL’s cockpit during Archer’s round trip journey between Salinas and Monterey, courtesy of Archer Aviation.

“I’ve talked a lot about the ‘Waymo Moment for air taxis’—the chance for us to get communities more comfortable with this tech,” ” said Archer’s Founder and CEO Adam Goldstein. “This is the beginning of that story and our biggest step yet toward making air taxis an everyday reality in cities across America. The ‘No Roads’ Tour is how we bring that narrative to life while also preparing for what’s next: flights in multiple states under the White House’s pilot program, and the first Midnight flights in Los Angeles ahead of LA28.”