With its Maker prototype logging successful test flights, the company has now unveiled Midnight, the four-passenger aircraft it'll push toward production.

It's a sleek and curious-looking beast, sporting the same propulsion layout as the Maker. That's 12 rotors, mounted on propulsion pods distributed along its wide wings. The rear six are two-bladers, pointing upwards, and they lock into a minimum-drag configuration in horizontal flight. The front six rock five blades, and are capable of fully tilting forward for cruise flight.

The cabin seats four passengers, plus a pilot. It's designed to be super-easy to get in and out of, and each seat has semi-dividers separating it from neighboring seats, with little panels displaying your name and destination. Archer has sacrificed some weight for passenger experience; the windows are huge and panoramic, and designed to give you the best possible view at 2,000 ft (610 m) where this machine will cruise.

Design-wise, it's super-sleek and murdered-out in black. The front end has a bit of a sperm whale thing going on, thanks to an integrated wheel cover and downward-tilted snout. Archer's visual signatures will be a single, striking vertical line down the nose, as well as the large V-tail at the back.

It's capable of top speeds up to 150 mph (241 km/h), and can fly as far as 100 miles (160 km) on a charge, although Archer is very much positioning this machine as a cross-town proposition. It's optimized to handle two back-to-back 20-mile (32-km) trips per 10 minutes on a fast charger, and the company claims it's built to last at least 3,000 flight cycles, after which presumably the battery packs might need to be refreshed.