Joby has completed its final international flight demonstration of 2025 with a week-long campaign at Japan’s Fuji Speedway. Conducted with Toyota Motor Company, the flights concluded a year defined by rapid expansion of Joby’s global test programme.

Across 2025, Joby completed more than 850 flights and flew over 50,000 miles, a 2.6 times increase from 2024. The results are helping to validate its aircraft design and manufacturing processes for FAA type certification, with commercial operations targeted for 2026.

“2025 saw the most extensive and rigorous flight testing in our history,” says James “Buddy” Denham, chief test pilot at Joby. “Flying in active, controlled airspace in three countries this year, from the California coastline to the iconic Fuji Speedway and the deserts of Dubai, has been a powerful showcase of Joby's operational maturity.”

Joby flew in the US, UAE and Japan this year, including 41 flights at World Expo Osaka, 21 in the UAE and a week of demonstrations at the Dubai Airshow. It also flew several point-to-point flights between public airports in California and completed the first piloted point-to-point eVTOL flight in the UAE from Margham to Al Maktoum International.

The company also flew a turbine-electric demonstrator just three months after announcing the concept, and its Superpilot autonomous system logged more than 7,000 miles during a US defence exercise.

In total, Joby’s aircraft flew over 9,000 miles in 2025 and completed more than 4,900 test points, supporting FAA certification efforts including data for type inspection authorisation flight testing in 2026. Work this year also supported finalisation of operating and maintenance manuals.

Separately, Blade Urban Air Mobility moved over 2,500 passengers during the Ryder Cup in New York, providing Joby with valuable data for high-tempo passenger transport ahead of service launch.