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A flying car produced by Japanese startup SkyDrive Inc. and a ticket gate are displayed at the Japan Mobility Show as it opens to the media at Tokyo Big Site in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2025. Seen on the right is CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa.

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World Exposition in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan, July 31 Kyodo - Video taken on July 31, 2025, shows a demonstration flight of the "flying car" developed by SkyDrive Inc. at the World Exposition in Osaka. (Kyodo)

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken on July 31, 2025, shows a demonstration flight of the "flying car" developed by SkyDrive Inc. at the World Exposition in Osaka.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken on July 31, 2025, shows a demonstration flight of the "flying car" developed by SkyDrive Inc. at the World Exposition in Osaka.

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World Exposition in Osaka

A flying car developed by Japanese startup SkyDrive Inc. is shown to the media at the venue of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka on April 9, 2025, ahead of the event's opening on April 13.

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World Exposition in Osaka

A flying car developed by Japanese startup SkyDrive Inc. is shown to the media at the venue of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka on April 9, 2025, ahead of the event's opening on April 13.

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World Exposition in Osaka

A flying car developed by Japanese startup SkyDrive Inc. is shown to the media at the venue of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka on April 9, 2025, ahead of the event's opening on April 13.

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[Breaking News]World Exposition in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan, March 28 Kyodo - Video taken in a hangar in Osaka on March 28, 2025, shows a life-size mockup of a flying vehicle to be used for demonstration flights by Aichi Prefecture-based SkyDrive Inc. during the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city starting in April. SkyDrive will fly the vehicle between a vertiport outside the hanger and another vertiport located on the venue of the expo on a nearby artificial island. (Kyodo)

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken in a hangar in Osaka on March 28, 2025, shows Myaku-Myaku, the official mascot of the 2025 World Exposition and a life-size mockup of a flying vehicle to be used for demonstration flights by Aichi Prefecture-based SkyDrive Inc. during the exposition in the western Japan city starting in April. SkyDrive will fly the vehicle between a vertiport outside the hanger and another vertiport located on the venue of the expo on a nearby artificial island.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken in a hangar in Osaka on March 28, 2025, shows a life-size mockup of a flying vehicle to be used for demonstration flights by Aichi Prefecture-based SkyDrive Inc. during the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city starting in April. SkyDrive will fly the vehicle between a vertiport outside the hanger and another vertiport located on the venue of the expo on a nearby artificial island.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken in a hangar in Osaka on March 28, 2025, shows a life-size mockup of a flying vehicle to be used for demonstration flights by Aichi Prefecture-based SkyDrive Inc. during the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city starting in April. SkyDrive will fly the vehicle between a vertiport outside the hanger and another vertiport located on the venue of the expo on a nearby artificial island.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken in a hangar in Osaka on March 28, 2025, shows a life-size mockup of a flying vehicle to be used for demonstration flights by Aichi Prefecture-based SkyDrive Inc. during the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city starting in April. SkyDrive will fly the vehicle between a vertiport outside the hanger and another vertiport located on the venue of the expo on a nearby artificial island.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken in a hangar in Osaka on March 28, 2025, shows a life-size mockup of a flying vehicle to be used for demonstration flights by Aichi Prefecture-based SkyDrive Inc. during the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city starting in April. SkyDrive will fly the vehicle between a vertiport outside the hanger and another vertiport located on the venue of the expo on a nearby artificial island.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken on March 28, 2025, at the venue of the 2025 World Exposition on an artificial island in Osaka shows the newly completed vertiport to be used for demonstration flight of a flying vehicle by Aichi Prefecture-based SkyDrive Inc. during the exposition in the western Japan city starting in April. SkyDrive will fly the vehicle between the vertiport and another vertiport also completed at Osaka port.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken at Osaka port on March 28, 2025, shows the newly completed vertiport to be used for demonstration flight of a flying vehicle by Aichi Prefecture-based SkyDrive Inc. during the 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city starting in April. SkyDrive will fly the vehicle between the vertiport and another vertiport also completed at the venue of the expo on a nearby artificial island.

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Osaka Metro and SkyDrive tie up in flying vehicle business

SkyDrive Inc. CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa (R) and Osaka Metro Co. President Hideaki Kawai shake hands in Osaka on Aug. 26, 2024, after the two companies signed a business partnership agreement aiming for commercializing a flying vehicle business in the future.

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Osaka Metro and SkyDrive tie up in flying taxi business

SkyDrive Inc. CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa (R) and Osaka Metro Co. President Hideaki Kawai shake hands in Osaka on Aug. 26, 2024, after the two companies signed a business partnership agreement aiming for commercializing a flying vehicle business in the future.

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JR Kyushu and SkyDrive tie up in flying taxi business

SkyDrive Inc. CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa (R) and Kyushu Railway Co. President Yoji Furumiya shake hands in Tokyo on July 4, 2024, after the two companies concluded a business partnership accord to study the feasibility of commercializing a flying taxi service at railway stations operated by the JR company on the southwestern Japan main island of Kyushu and commercial facilities in the Kyushu region in 2026 at the earliest.

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Verification test for flying cars

A verification test is held at Osaka port in Osaka on Oct. 22, 2021, using a drone to collect data to put a so-called manned flying car into practical use. SkyDrive Inc., founded by engineers from Toyota Motor Corp. and others, conducted the test to check wind effects and battery consumption of the drone.

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Verification test for flying cars

Photo taken in Osaka on Oct. 22, 2021, shows a full-scale model of the so-called manned flying car that SkyDrive Inc. is developing with a view to putting into practical use. The company conducted a verification test using a drone the same day in the western Japan city to check wind effects and the drone's battery consumption.

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Verification test for flying cars

Photo taken in Osaka on Oct. 22, 2021, shows a full-scale model of the so-called manned flying car that SkyDrive Inc. is developing with a view to putting into practical use. The company conducted a verification test using a drone the same day in the western Japan city to check wind effects and the drone's battery consumption.

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Verification test for flying cars

A verification test is held at Osaka port in Osaka on Oct. 22, 2021, using a drone to collect data to put a so-called manned flying car into practical use. SkyDrive Inc., founded by engineers from Toyota Motor Corp. and others, conducted the test to check wind effects and battery consumption of the drone.

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Verification test for flying cars

A verification test is held at Osaka port in Osaka on Oct. 22, 2021, using a drone to collect data to put a so-called manned flying car into practical use. SkyDrive Inc., founded by engineers from Toyota Motor Corp. and others, conducted the test to check wind effects and battery consumption of the drone.

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"Flying car" developing firm in Japan

Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura rides a full-scale "flying car" model of SkyDrive Inc. on Sept. 14, 2021, in Osaka. The western Japan prefecture and city governments formed a partnership agreement with the Tokyo-based developer the same day to support the project to put it into practical use. Seen second from left is Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui and second from right is SkyDrive CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa.

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"Flying car" developing firm in Japan

Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura (2nd from R) and Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui (2nd from L), SkyDrive Inc. CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa (far R) are pictured in Osaka on Sept. 14, 2021, with a full-scale "flying car" model of SkyDrive. The western Japan prefecture and city governments formed a partnership agreement with the Tokyo-based developer the same day to support the project to put it into practical use.

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Flying car model under manned test flight

Photo shows a flying car model developer SkyDrive Inc. unveiled to the public on Nov. 4, 2020, at an exhibition in Tokyo. The start-up, founded by former Toyota Motor engineers in 2018, has begun conducting manned test flights of the SD-03 model in Toyota in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan.