[2] In September 2022, it was announced that the company was winding down, though their joint venture with Boeing, Wisk Aero would continue.
A license was not required to pilot the Flyer, as it was built under US FAR Part 103 ultralight regulations.
[7] After 25,000 unmanned or crewed flights combined, using 111 aircraft, Kitty Hawk ended the programme on 3 June 2020;[8] CEO Sebastian Thrun stated that, with Flyer, the company "could not find a path to a viable business".
[9] Since March 2018, Kitty Hawk Corporation had been testing an autonomous, electric air taxi prototype in New Zealand called Cora and code-named Zee.Aero.
[12][13] In December 2019, the Cora team was rebranded and spun off as a separate company called Wisk Aero.