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Eager teens reaching driving age in the next few years may be able to take their inaugural spin in a car … in the sky. The world’s first mass-produced flying automobile prototype has been unveiled, and we’re ready for a ride.
Created by Slovakia-based company Klein Vision, the AirCar production prototype made its public debut May 8, after making its insider debut at the 2025 Living Legends of Aviation Awards Ceremony in Beverly Hills late last month. At the event, Morgan Freeman and John Travolta presented the car’s inventor, Stefan Klein, with a Special Recognition Award for Engineering Excellence.
Per the company website, the AirCar is the result of Klein spending the past 20 years “converting his flying car dream into reality.” The vehicle already holds a Certificate of Airworthiness and has successfully completed over 170 flight hours and more than 500 takeoffs and landings. It’s capable of automatic transformation from car to aircraft in under two minutes, enabling the operator to simply drive to an airport and then take off.
“The AirCar fulfills a lifelong dream to bring the freedom of flight into the hands of everyday people,” Klein said in a news release. “With the launch of our production prototype, we are one step closer to transforming how the world moves — merging the road and the sky into a new dimension of personal mobility.”
Incredible footage has been uploaded to YouTube over the last few years featuring various earlier versions of the AirCar soaring among the clouds, including one from April 2024 showing the first passenger to go for a ride.
Klein Vision says the mass-produced model is expected to be priced between $800,000 and $1 million, depending on luxury features, with first units expected to be available to buy in the first quarter of 2026. And according to Klein Vision co-founder Anton Zajac, pre-orders are already coming in. He told tech outlet TNW there are a “few interested potential clients.”
The new model will run on gasoline and will be able to reach speeds of 155 mph, with a maximum flight range of about 621 miles. Zajac said the company plans to go electric “as soon as the energy density of the batteries is good enough.”
In the news release, Todd Douglas Miller, Emmy Award-winning director of the documentary Apollo 11, who attended the April awards ceremony, said: “From the cockpit of another aircraft, I watched the AirCar in flight. Stefan Klein and Klein Vision have turned the impossible into reality, merging dreams and science fiction into something breathtakingly real.”
And last year, James May, former host of Top Gear, visited Klein Vision and witnessed the AirCar in action at an international airport in Slovakia. “The AirCar has landed,” he said at the time. “Very rarely am I lost for words, but I am lost for words!”
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