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Meet the aircraft
Joby’s electric vertical-takeoff aircraft, included in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Microsoft lists Joby S4 in the Standard tier. Aviator includes the lower edition tiers. The simulator edition is recorded separately from the real aircraft’s development or certification status.
Joby S4
Microsoft · Read more ↗Meet Joby S4
Microsoft includes Joby's electric vertical-takeoff S4 in the MSFS 2024 Standard roster and the higher edition tiers, including Aviator.
Joby S4
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History & design
Full-size prototypes before production
Joby reports flying full-size aircraft from 2017. By June 2023, its pre-production prototypes had accumulated more than 30,000 miles since 2019, providing experience for the next manufacturing stage.
Joby Aviation · Production launch and first production aircraft permit ↗Joby announcement, 28 June 2023
A production-line aircraft enters flight testing
In June 2023, the first aircraft from Joby’s pilot production line in Marina, California received a special airworthiness certificate permitting flight testing. Toyota supported production-line design and assembly. This milestone was a test-flight authorization, not approval for commercial passenger operations.
Joby Aviation · Production launch and first production aircraft permit ↗Joby announcement, 28 June 2023
Systems & details
A transition from powered lift to wingborne flight
Tilting propellers provide vertical-flight capability and then turn toward forward propulsion as the wing carries the aircraft in cruise. Joby combines six motors with unified fly-by-wire controls; the pilot therefore manages an electronically coordinated powered-lift aircraft, rather than six independent thrust controls.
Read the specification as a defined design
The published aircraft uses a carbon-fibre composite airframe and lithium-ion polymer batteries. Its four-passenger arrangement and headline speed belong to the manufacturer’s aircraft specification; a simulator release or a prototype test milestone does not itself establish commercial certification.
In your simulator
Systems, equipment and documentation for each developer’s aircraft.
MSFS 2024Joby S4
Microsoft Flight Simulator · Released
Joby S4
Microsoft Flight Simulator · Released
Manuals & resources
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Manual
Joby S4 simulator manualMicrosoft / aircraft developer · Official catalogue reviewed 15 September 2026Resource
MSFS 2024 official aircraft rosterMicrosoft · Official catalogue reviewed 15 September 2026Manufacturer documentation
Aircraft technology and specificationsJoby Aviation · Joby published aircraft technology and specification, retrieved October 2026Aircraft history
Production launch and first production aircraft permitJoby Aviation · Joby announcement, 28 June 2023Built-in force-feedback profiles
Read the documentary basis, editable starting settings and remaining questions for the aircraft you fly. Each explanation refers to the exact profile revision shown.
Catalogue programme-20261022-v1 · 1 profile choice
Joby S4
Free and Pro · Revision 1 · Partial review
MSFS 2024
Joby S4: The spring supplies a fixed-centre electronic-control response.
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