Wisk Aero is building a fully autonomous four-passenger air taxi with no pilot onboard - a fundamentally different regulatory and technical bet than every other eVTOL program.
Wisk Aero, wholly owned by Boeing, is pursuing FAA type certification for a pilotless four-seat air taxi - a regulatory first with no existing framework to follow.
Wisk Aero is seeking FAA approval to fly paying passengers without any pilot onboard - a certification the agency has never granted in the history of commercial aviation.
Wisk Aero's pilotless Generation Six air taxi is the first autonomous passenger aircraft to receive FAA special class airworthiness criteria, targeting commercial service by 2030.
Wisk Aero broke ground on an autonomous eVTOL vertiport at Hollister Municipal Airport - a development with direct implications for GA pilots at uncontrolled fields nationwide.
Wisk Aero's Gen Six is the only near-term commercial eVTOL designed with no pilot seat - and its FAA certification path is rewriting aviation safety standards from scratch.