Archer

Founder & CEO of @FlyArcher

Archer Aviation will acquire Boeing's Wisk Aero, SkyGrid and Insitu subsidiaries in an all-stock transaction that is poised to make Boeing the largest outside shareholder in the electric vertical take-off and landing developer , folding three deeply established aerospace businesses into a company best known until now for its Midnight piloted air taxi. Archer signed agreements to take ownership of three Boeing subsidiaries: Wisk Aero (the autonomous eVTOL developer with 16 years of engineering history and six complete aircraft generations), SkyGrid (an Austin-based airspace management software company originally co-founded by Boeing and SparkCognition in 2018), and Insitu (a Bingen, Washington manufacturer of military surveillance drones ). The combined entity is aimed at founders, operators, and defense buyers who care about where electric aviation, uncrewed systems, and airspace software converge. For Archer, the launch matters because it turns a single-product eVTOL story into a portfolio that spans piloted commercial flight, autonomous passenger aircraft, tactical UAS, and the software layer that routes them. Archer is developing the Midnight electric air taxi for commercial passenger transport, while Wisk has spent more than a decade designing fully autonomous eVTOL aircraft. Insitu is an established manufacturer of military unmanned aircraft , and the transaction also brings in real revenue, with Insitu generating more than $200 million in annual sales. Boeing will retain access to Wisk's autonomous flight technology for its commercial and defense aircraft under a parallel collaboration, and the deal is expected to close by the end of 2026, pending antitrust review . Archer was founded in 2018 by Brett Adcock and Adam Goldstein , and Adcock has stepped down as co-CEO, with fellow co-founder Adam Goldstein assuming the sole CEO role to simplify the operating structure as the company moves through flight testing and certification. The framing Goldstein is using around this launch is dual-use "physical AI" for aerospace and defense, pulling autonomy stacks, UAS manufacturing, and airspace management under one roof rather than licensing them piecemeal from an incumbent.

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