Klein Vision unveils AirCar production prototype

AirCar inventor and designer Stefan Klein unveiled the production prototype to a crowd of industry leaders at the 2025 Living Legends of Aviation Gala Dinner in Beverly Hills, California.

The AirCar holds a Certificate of Airworthiness and has so far completed over 170 flight hours and more than 500 take-offs and landings. 

AirCar first appeared in The Engineer in 2021 after it had undertaken a flight from Nitra Airport to Bratislava Airport.

Since then, Klein Vision has modified how AirCar is manufactured, upgraded to a more powerful engine configuration and added Garmin Avionics G3X avionics that introduce redundancy and autopilot.

AirCar co-founder Anton Zajac said the first prototype was as very stable propeller-driven aircraft and a good car, but manufacturing repeatability was hindered by the use of welded tubes.

“To create identical copies, we decided to create a monocoque construction,” he said. “The whole aircraft or air car is now made of several pieces that are that can be easily replicated. That's one key change in the in the production prototype, that if you want to do mass production, you need to be able to replicate the prototype.”