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Moya Begins Building Full-scale Autonomous Cargo eVTOL

Brazilian start-up expects to fly the Moya 760 by year-end

Moya’s 256 eVTOL, registered PP-AZM, lifts off during flight testing near São José dos Campos, Brazil. — Moya Aero is preparing its 256 eVTOL for a first full transition from hover to wing-borne cruise while the first full-scale prototype of the larger Moya 760 cargo aircraft takes shape in São José dos Campos, Brazil.

By Hanneke Weitering • Science & Technology Editor

July 23, 2026

Moya Aero has started manufacturing the first full-scale prototype of the Moya 760, the larger of two autonomous cargo eVTOL models the Brazilian start-up is developing for logistics and agricultural missions. The first major structural component—the upper surface of the aircraft’s 7.4-meter (24-foot) rear wing—emerged from its tooling just days before the Farnborough International Airshow opened, and the company aims to fly the aircraft by the end of 2026, Andre Stein, Moya’s board director and president of Americas, told AIN.

The São José dos Campos-based company is exhibiting this week at the Brazilian Pavilion organized by the Brazilian Aerospace & Defense Cluster, where visitors can see a scale model of the aircraft. The flight-test campaign kept the real hardware at home in Brazil, according Stein, who is at the show along with co-founder and CEO Alexandre Zaramela.

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