More Than 10 eVTOL Aircraft Pioneers Are Exhibiting at the Paris Airshow

Paris Air Show 2023

Future Fliers Flock to Paris

This week many Paris Air Show visitors will get their first glimpse of new eVTOL aircraft designed to transform how people and things move around cities.

Volocopter's eVTOL demonstrator aircraft — Volocopter is one of several advanced air mobility companies that will participate in the Re.Invent Mobility demonstration during the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. (Photo: David McIntosh))

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

June 19, 2023

Paris will host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in just 13 months, and many expect the spectacle to include a demonstration of the potential for new eVTOL aircraft to transform how people and things move in and around congested cities. The number of electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles in development—most of which will carry four passengers—has become almost too large to track and many of the fledgling programs will likely never make it to market.

Around 11 of the frontrunners in the so-called advanced air mobility (AAM) sector have come to the French capital this week to give many Paris Airshow visitors their first glimpse of the new eVTOLs. Most will occupy the Paris Air Mobility zone in Hall 5. The companies include Archer, Ascendance Flight Technologies, AutoFlight, EHang, Eve, Joby, Lilium, Supernal, Overair, Wisk Aero, and Volocopter.

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