Boeing Passenger Air Vehicle

The Boeing Passenger Air Vehicle is an American electrically powered, autonomous personal air vehicle prototype developed by the Boeing NeXt division with the help of Aurora Flight Sciences. Aurora tested a one-tenth scale model, flown with and without a fuselage, and a quarter scale concept aircraft before building the prototype. It is a three-surface aircraft with twin booms each carrying four lift rotors, a pusher propeller and a rear wing with vertical surfaces at each end, and it was designed for two passengers and a 225 kilogram payload. The prototype first flew on 22 January 2019 at Manassas, Virginia, hovering before further tests and a transition to forward flight, and it was substantially damaged when it struck the runway on its fifth test flight on 4 June 2019. Boeing was reported to be closing the NeXt division in September 2020.