Manned, autonomous, or optionally piloted?

When you open a company page on Air Taxi Spot, you may see a chip that says manned, autonomous, or optionally piloted. Those three words are how this directory groups who is supposed to be in the aircraft at entry into service. They are browse tags. They are not a ticket, a pilot license, or a finding that a flight is ready to book.

What the three labels mean here

Manned — the catalog treats the program as designed for an onboard pilot at entry into service. Most passenger air-taxi entries in this list use this tag.
Autonomous — designed for no onboard pilot. Ground supervision can still apply. The chip does not say the aircraft is flying passengers today, and it does not replace a certification label.
Optionally piloted — piloted at launch, with a stated path toward autonomy later. In this catalog that chip is used when the company itself describes that sequence.

Autonomy is separate from mission. A cargo program can be autonomous. A passenger air-taxi program can be manned. The same company page can also carry a region chip and, when sourced, a certification-stage phrase. Passenger or cargo? · How to read certification stage labels.

Companies tagged manned

These companies carry the manned chip. Status next to the name (Active, Paused, and the other status pills) is a different catalog field. How to read directory status labels.

Aerofugia (Geely) (Active). Geely-backed Chinese piloted eVTOL AE200 urban mobility program
Airbus CityAirbus (lineage) (Paused). Airbus Helicopters eVTOL demonstrator lineage (Vahana → CityAirbus NextGen); program paused
Archer Aviation (Active). Directory certification label: FAA Phase 3 closed.
ARIDGE (formerly XPENG AeroHT) (Active). Modular Land Aircraft Carrier flying car and tilt-rotor flying-car programs
Ascendance Flight Technologies (Active). French hybrid-electric VTOL Atea for regional passenger, cargo, and EMS
Bell Nexus (Textron) (Paused). Legacy Bell/Textron eVTOL concept; eAviation unit dissolved and program slowed
BETA Technologies (Active). ALIA electric VTOL and CTOL aircraft for passenger, cargo, and utility missions Directory certification label: FAA TC in progress.
Electra.aero (Active). Hybrid-electric Ultra Short eSTOL (not VTOL) — EL2 demonstrator / EL9 production design Directory certification label: FAA Part 23 TC applied.
Horizon Aircraft (Active). Canadian hybrid fan-in-wing Cavorite X7 VTOL for passenger/cargo regional missions
Jaunt Air Mobility (Active). Slowed Rotor Compound (SRC) VTOL for passenger and cargo missions
Joby Aviation (Active). All-electric piloted air taxi for commercial passenger service Directory certification label: FAA TIA flight testing.
Lilium (Defunct). German ducted-fan eVTOL Jet program; insolvent / assets in administration
Overair (Defunct). Butterfly tiltrotor eVTOL; ceased operations (2025); IP/staff links to Archer reported
PAL-V (Active). Dutch roadable flying car (gyrocopter-based Liberty) — adjacent to air-taxi discourse
SkyDrive (Active). Japanese compact multicopter eVTOL SD-05 for short-hop piloted air mobility Directory certification label: JCAB certification plan agreed.
Supernal (Hyundai Motor Group) (Paused). Hyundai AAM subsidiary; S-A2 eVTOL concept — aircraft development paused (2025)
Vertical Aerospace (Active). UK eVTOL OEM; VX4 prototype / Valo commercial aircraft for piloted passenger service Directory certification label: UK CAA / EASA SC-VTOL.
Volocopter (Acquired). German multicopter eVTOL pioneer; reorganized under Diamond Aircraft / Wanfeng after insolvency

Companies tagged autonomous

These companies match the autonomous browse category. Some are passenger air taxi; some are cargo. The sentence after the name is the catalog tagline. It is not a range claim, a seat count, or a route.

AutoFlight (Active). Directory certification label: CAAC cargo certified.
Dufour Aerospace (Active). Swiss tilt-wing cargo eVTOL drones (Aero-200 / Aero3 lineage)
EHang (Active). Directory certification label: CAAC type certified.
Elroy Air (Active). Autonomous hybrid-electric Chaparral cargo eVTOL for middle-mile logistics
Kitty Hawk (Cora lineage) (Defunct). Defunct eVTOL pioneer; Cora program lineage continues via Wisk Aero
Sabrewing Aircraft (Status unknown). US autonomous VTOL cargo UAV (Rhaegal); limited recent public footprint
Wisk Aero (Active). Four-passenger autonomous eVTOL air taxi (Gen 6); Boeing lineage, Archer acquisition pending Directory certification label: FAA TC in progress.

Also tagged passenger air taxi: AutoFlight, EHang, Kitty Hawk (Cora lineage), Wisk Aero.

Cargo without the passenger air taxi label: Dufour Aerospace, Elroy Air, Sabrewing Aircraft.

Optionally piloted

Only one company in the current catalog carries this chip: Eve Air Mobility. The category page stays the live list if that changes.

Eve Air Mobility (Active). Embraer-backed eVTOL (Eve 100) with UAM services and urban ATM solutions Directory certification label: ANAC TC in progress.

What these labels do not say

None of these chips means a ride is on sale, that a pilot is already hired, or that a remote operator is approved.
They do not stand in for certification wording. If a company page shows a Certification line, that line is a sourced directory label. Read the quoted phrase, then the official site linked on the page.
They do not set a price, a range, a seat count, or a city pair. This page does not invent those figures.
They are not a ranking. Seeing more manned companies than autonomous ones here only reflects how the catalog is tagged today.

You can open the autonomy chips on the companies filter, or jump straight to manned, autonomous, or optionally piloted.

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