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Wisk Rolls Out Second Gen 6 Autonomous eVTOL Prototype

Program targets first transition flight later this year

Wisk Aero’s two Gen 6 aircraft outside hangar — Wisk Aero’s sixth-generation eVTOL prototypes N606WA (foreground) and the newer N607WA are pictured outside the company's hangar in Hollister, California. The Boeing subsidiary recently rolled out the second aircraft to expand its Gen 6 flight-test program.

By Hanneke Weitering • Science & Technology Editor

March 17, 2026

Wisk Aero has rolled out the second flight-test example of its sixth-generation autonomous eVTOL aircraft. The full-scale prototype, registered as N607WA, is expected to make its first flight in the coming weeks. The Boeing subsidiary said it remains on track to bring the pilotless, four-passenger electric air taxi into commercial service by 2030.

Following the first flights of the original Gen 6 prototype (N606WA) in December, Wisk engineers made some minor refinements to the aircraft’s design, incorporating lessons learned from those early flight tests. Updates to the aircraft were primarily aimed at “weight saving in certain areas and improved stiffnesses in others,” Guillaume Beauchamp, Wisk’s head of aircraft development, told AIN.

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