Xpeng's flying car unit Aridge expects to reach full-scale delivery of its Land Aircraft Carrier in 2027, the company said at Auto China 2026. The statement moves the goalposts from the previous internal target of completing mass production and first deliveries within 2026.
The shift is modest in calendar terms but significant in meaning. Earlier this year, Aridge had the 2026 delivery window as a commitment on record: its Guangzhou factory, which completed construction in September 2025, produced its first Land Aircraft Carrier in November 2025 and completed batch trial production in March 2026. The infrastructure exists. The supply chain is in motion. The word "full-scale" is carrying the weight of the revision.
The Land Aircraft Carrier is a modular flying car system pairing a two-seater eVTOL aircraft with a ground vehicle that can recharge the aircraft while driving or parked. The ground vehicle runs on an 800V silicon carbide extended-range platform with a stated range of over 1,000 kilometers. CALB, which began mass-producing aviation batteries for the system in March, supplies cells rated at 360 Wh/kg and a 25C maximum discharge rate. The cells passed a 15.2-meter drop test without fire, explosion, or leakage. Price is expected below 2 million yuan, or roughly $290,000.
Aridge raised nearly $200 million in a new equity round in March, bringing total historical financing to approximately $1 billion. The round was led by GL Ventures and HongShan Capital, both returning from Series A. The company filed confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO earlier this year, with JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley on the mandate. That process injects its own pressure into delivery timelines: public market investors will be reading the same press releases.
The Guangzhou factory can produce one aircraft every 30 minutes at full capacity. Whether it will run at anything close to that rate in 2027 depends on regulatory approvals, reservation conversions, and a customer base for a $290,000 flying car that did not exist two years ago. Aridge is not the only entrant: the low-altitude economy is a stated policy priority in China, and competitors from EHang to AutoFlight are advancing their own certification timelines. For Aridge, 2027 is when "full-scale" begins.