Archer Aviation Inc. (“Archer” or the “Company”) (NYSE: ACHR) announced operating and financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2024. The Company issued a shareholder letter discussing those results, as well as its third quarter 2024 estimates. The shareholder letter may be accessed on the Company’s investor relations website here .

Commenting on second quarter 2024 results, Adam Goldstein, Archer’s CEO said:

“This has been one of Archer’s most productive quarters yet. From Midnight’s first transition flight, to the progress we’ve made on the build out of high-volume manufacturing facilities alongside Stellantis, to the commercial progress we’re making with Southwest, United, and more—we are working tirelessly to enable commercial operations all over the world. Our indicative order book now sits at nearly $6B. With the additional funding and planned LA network we announced today, Archer is well positioned to meet our goal of commercialization as early as next year.”

Stellantis Contract Manufacturing Commitment

Archer announced today that it has reached an agreement in principle on key terms of its planned contract manufacturing relationship with Stellantis. In addition to the nearly $300M Stellantis has previously invested to date, including $55M in July 2024, Stellantis is planning to fund the following to help ensure Archer achieves its manufacturing goals:

• Manufacturing Labor : Stellantis to fund up to ~$370M of the anticipated manufacturing labor costs necessary to support Archer’s planned manufacturing ramp to 650 aircraft annually. In exchange, Stellantis would receive Archer shares on a rolling quarterly basis based on the total labor costs incurred in a particular quarter and Archer’s then-current future stock price.

• Manufacturing CapEx : Additionally, Stellantis will contribute the identified initial incremental manufacturing capital expenditures for the initial ramp of Midnight production, estimated to be up to $20M.

Archer’s goal with this relationship is to incentivize Stellantis to help Archer achieve its planned production ramp and unit cost targets. Therefore, Archer intends to issue Stellantis $30M of performance warrants that will vest based on Stellantis’ achievement of certain performance milestones under the contract manufacturing relationship. Archer’s issuance of any equity to Stellantis pursuant to this contract manufacturing relationship is expected to be subject to approval by Archer’s stockholders.

Archer Secures $230M Of Additional Equity Capital Since The End of Q2

This equity capital consists of the $55M Archer received from Stellantis on July 1, 2024 under the parties’ strategic funding agreement, as well as a $175 million investment from today that included both institutional investors and long time strategic investors, Stellantis and United. The funds from today’s investment are intended to be used for working capital and general corporate purposes. Moelis & Company LLC acted as exclusive placement agent to Archer on this investment.

Los Angeles Air Taxi Network

Archer unveiled plans for a Los Angeles air taxi network. This planned network includes vertiports at key locations such as Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Orange County, Santa Monica, Hollywood Burbank, Long Beach and Van Nuys.

As part of its network planning, Archer is coordinating with the Los Angeles Rams to collaborate on potential exclusive vertiports at Woodland Hills and at Hollywood Park, the 300-acre district centered around SoFi Stadium. The University of Southern California is also engaged to be part of Archer’s planned LA network.

Archer’s goal is to begin its LA network operations by as early as 2026.

Midnight Delivery To The United States Air Force

This month, the U.S. Department of Defense accepted the military airworthiness assessment of Archer’s Midnight aircraft, and Archer subsequently delivered Midnight to the U.S. Air Force as part of Archer’s AFWERX Agility Prime contract valued at up to $142M ⁴ . Following the recent delivery-in-place handoff at Archer’s flight test facility in Salinas, CA, a team of USAF personnel worked alongside Archer’s flight test team to execute simulated medical evacuation, cargo, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance flights with the aircraft.

Nearly $6B Indicative Order Book ⁵

Archer announced Future Flight Global, a leader in business aviation and private jet travel, plans to purchase up to 116 Midnight aircraft worth up to $580M. Future Flight Global has already placed an initial cash deposit and plans to make additional pre-delivery payments to Archer when the parties finalize the definitive aircraft purchase agreement. In aggregate, with this latest announcement, Archer now has nearly $6B in indicative orders with associated pre-delivery payments.

Archer will be conducting its earnings conference call at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Time) today. You can access a live webcast on our investor relations website at investors.archer.com or the conference call by dialing 404-975-4839 (domestic) or +1 833-470-1428 (international) and entering the access code 013488.

A replay of the webcast will be available on our investor relations website. In addition, a telephonic replay of the conference call will be accessible for one week following the call by dialing 866-813-9403 (domestic) or +44 204-525-0658 (international), and entering the access code 304206

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Second Quarter 2024 Financial Results

1. A reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable GAAP measures is provided below in the section titled “Reconciliation of Selected GAAP To Non-GAAP Results for Q2 2024.”
2. Does not include proceeds from the $55.0 million Stellantis investment that was received on July 1, 2024

Third Quarter 2024 Financial Estimates

Archer’s financial estimates for third quarter of 2024 are as follows:

• Non-GAAP total operating expenses of $90M to $100M

We have not reconciled our non-GAAP total operating expense estimates because certain items that impact non-GAAP total operating expense are uncertain or out of our control and cannot be reasonably predicted. In particular, stock-based compensation expense is impacted by the future fair market value of our common stock and other factors, all of which are difficult to predict, subject to frequent change, or not within our control. The actual amount of these expenses during 2024 will have a significant impact on our future GAAP financials. Accordingly, a reconciliation of non-GAAP total operating expenses is not available without unreasonable effort.