Autonomous aviation startup Xwing has completed the first gate-to-gate commercial cargo flight using a Cessna Grand Caravan 208B utility aircraft retrofitted with its AutoFlight system.

In addition to its relationship with the FAA, Xwing owns a contract from AFWERX, the innovation arm of the U.S. Air Force, to trial its Superpilot system aboard a crewed Cessna 208 Caravan.

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Startup Xwing has completed the first autonomous gate-to-gate demonstration with a commercial cargo aircraft. The Cessna 208B Grand Caravan left the gate, taxied out, took off, landed and returned ...

Since Xwing’s last funding round — $4 million in summer 2018 — the company has been developing its tech and working with the FAA to receive flight certification for pilotless aircraft.

Xwing’s autonomous cargo trials with the USAF recently kicked off in Northern California and are being operated with a Cessna 208B, the same type Xwing used to demonstrate the first autonomously ...

Joby’s electric air taxis are still a couple years away from launch Xwing, which was founded in 2016, has conducted 250 autonomous test flights as well as 500 auto-landings.