Passenger Air Vehicle

An electric vertical take-off prototype designed by Aurora Flight Sciences, about 30 ft long and 28 ft wide, with eight lift rotors under the wings and a pusher propeller, built to fly passengers up to 50 miles with no pilot. Its first flight was an autonomous hover and landing in Manassas, Virginia.

Price: —prototype; never sold
Autonomy: Autonomous modeHow it runs
Driverless: TestingSince 2019-01-22
Fleet: 2019Reported; details below
Speed: —Not published
Range: 80 kmPer charge or tank

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Why it matters

Boeing's first fully autonomous electric passenger air taxi prototype to fly.

Real-world use

The PAV prototype crashed during unmanned testing on 4 June 2019 (AIN, 2019). Boeing announced a pause in NeXt-led future mobility programs in 2020 (Boeing, Annual Report 2020).

Timeline

First shown: 2019-01-22
Released: Not yet

First flight, Manassas, Virginia

Maker

Boeing NeXt with Aurora Flight SciencesCompany

How it drives

Fleet and city figures move fast; each carries its date and who reported it.

Driverless status: Driverless tests only
Where it runs: test flights in Manassas, Virginia, USA
Driverless since: 2019-01-22
Fleet: one prototype (Boeing, Jan 2019)

Public attention

A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current vehicles.

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No recent press stories listed yet

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What’s inside

No component details published yet.

Movement: Other movement
How it runs: Fully autonomous. Does its job with nobody at the controls.

From the maker

Passenger Air Vehicle (PAV) is the only vehicle from Boeing NeXt with Aurora Flight Sciences in the atlas.

Made, sold and where

No production or sales figures published yet.

Price: Not publishedprototype; never sold
How to get one: No official buying page found

Sources

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Boeing Boeing Autonomous Passenger Air Vehicle Completes First Flight AIN Boeing Autonomous eVTOL Makes First Flight AIN Boeing NeXt To Close, Raising Doubts over eVTOL Activities Boeing Boeing Autonomous Passenger Air Vehicle Completes First Flight

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