The aircraft was completed in the summer of 2015, with first flight scheduled for September 7. Windy conditions that day prevented the flight, which finally occurred on September 23. Flight testing will start and continue in Minden, NV in fall and winter of 2015, using a new hangar donated by Tito. The first attempts to reach 90,000 feet will be launched from El Calafate, Argentina, deep in the south of Patagonia, in the Southern Hemisphere soon afterwards in summer of 2016.