SkyDrive has announced that in collaboration with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Mitsubishi Estate and Kanematsu Corporation it will conduct a demo flight of SKYDRIVE (type SD-05) eVTOL for five days from February 24th (Tuesday) to February 28th (Saturday), 2026, with the takeoff and landing point set at the temporary outdoor parking lot in the East Building of Tokyo Big Sight. This will be SkyDrive’s first demo flight in Tokyo.
“This initiative is being implemented as part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s “Project to Build a Business Model for Services Utilizing Flying Cars in Tokyo,” said the company in a press release. “The demo flight will take off and land at the temporary outdoor parking lot in the East Building of Tokyo Big Sight, a Tokyo landmark. The planned route will circle within the parking lot or from the takeoff and landing field to the sea. This demo flight will use the SKYDRIVE, the same aircraft used in the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo and the public flight at the Osaka Port Vertiport. There will be no pilot on board, and the flight will be operated with strict safety measures in place through automatic control and remote piloting.”
“The “Flying Car Implementation Project” was launched in fiscal year 2025, with the aim of realizing commercial operation in urban areas by 2030. The Digital Services Bureau has been supporting private businesses in building business models for three years from fiscal year 2022 to fiscal year 2024, with the aim of quickly commercializing services that utilize flying cars in Tokyo…This time, with the cooperation of Skyports, a UK company that operates the installation and operation of flying car landing and takeoff sites around the world, a flying car landing and takeoff site equipped with the Vertiport Automation System (VAS) will be installed, and in cooperation with Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Mitsubishi Estate, Kanematsu, and SkyDrive, a demonstration flight will be conducted at the port using an actual flying car that SkyDrive is developing. The demonstration flight will aim to identify practical issues in operational verification and ground operations (takeoff and landing management/simulation, check-in/security inspection, surrounding safety management/monitoring), as well as in implementing an actual transportation business using flying cars within Tokyo, and to make steady progress towards resolving these issues.”
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