The AirCar by Slovakia-based company Klein Vision completed a 35-minute journey from Nitra to Bratislava in the country at around 6am on Monday morning.
Using wings that fold away in less than three minutes and a propeller at its rear, the dual-transportation vehicle has now completed more than 40 hours of test flights.
It runs on fuel from a regular petrol station and is fitted with a 160-brake horsepower BMW engine.
It has flown at 2,500 metres with a cruising speed of 190 kilometres per hour.
Its creators say the AirCar's new, pre-production model will be capable of cruising speeds of 300km/h and of flying distances of just over 965 kilometres.
AirCar inventor Professor Stefan Klein said: "This flight starts a new era of dual-transportation vehicles. It opens a new category of transportation and returns the freedom originally attributed to cars back to the individual,"
Meanwhile Michael Cole, the president and chief executive of South Korean car maker Hyundai's European operations, said that flying cars will be deployed in cities by the end of the decade.
"We think that by the latter part of this decade certainly, urban air mobility will offer great opportunity to free up congestion in cities, to help with emissions, whether that's intra-city mobility in the air or whether it's even between cities," he told a conference organised by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
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