{"id":393833,"date":"2026-04-15T18:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/393833\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:23:23","slug":"israels-air-flies-first-production-uncrewed-cargo-evtol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/393833\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s AIR Flies First Production Uncrewed Cargo EVTOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Israel\u2019s AIR Flies First Production Uncrewed Cargo EVTOL | Aviation Week Network<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"#main-content\" class=\"visually-hidden focusable\"><br \/>\n      Skip to main content<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a id=\"main-content\" tabindex=\"-1\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__byline\" href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/author\/graham-warwick\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Warwick<\/a><br \/>\n                    April 15, 2026<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/022a7851_resize.jpg\" alt=\"Defense logistics is a likely early use case for AIR\u2019s uncrewed cargo eVTOL.\" class=\"b-lazy  img \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Defense logistics is a likely early use case for AIR\u2019s uncrewed cargo eVTOL.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: AIR<\/p>\n<p>  Israeli electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) startup AIR has flown its first production heavy-lift uncrewed cargo aircraft, built on an assembly line in central Israel with the capacity to produce 60 aircraft a year. The company is in the final stages of evaluating three sites in the U.S&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/warwickgrahamsized.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"b-lazy  img author__image \"\/><\/p>\n<p>          <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/author\/graham-warwick\" class=\"author--teaser__name\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Warwick<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author--teaser__bio\">Graham leads Aviation Week&#8217;s coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.<\/p>\n<p>            Subscription Required<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Israel\u2019s AIR Flies First Production Uncrewed Cargo EVTOL is published in Aerospace Daily &amp; Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with your AWIN membership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Already a member of AWIN or subscribe to Aerospace Daily &amp; Defense Report through your company? <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/user\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Login<\/a>\u00a0with your existing email and password.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Not a member?\u00a0 Learn how you can access the market intelligence and data you need to stay abreast of what&#8217;s happening in the aerospace and defense community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s AIR Flies First Production Uncrewed Cargo EVTOL | Aviation Week Network https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Graham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-393833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}