air-car

(n.)
A personal flying vehicle; a flying car. Compare aerocar.

• 1829 Mechanics' Mag. Vol. XI № 181: The airiner has time, in all cases (assuming that the air-car is air-worthy) to concert proper measures for his safe descent.
• 1871 New-York Times (Aug. 7) № 4/4: A like ignominious end befel that pretentious air[-]car which so long excited the curiosity of our citizens.
• 1934 H. Bates Matter of Size Astounding Stories (Apr.) № 52/1: In several scattered places were other roof doors like the one he had emerged from, and straight ahead stood a row of transparent objects that had to be the air-cars.
• 1957 L. Brackett All Colors of Rainbow Halfling & Other Stories (1973) № 150: He found driving a strain and yearned for the fleet little air-cars that darted so easily and safely through the peaceful skies of the Federation worlds.
• 1969 R. Silverberg Across Billion Years № 214: Up we went, into the aircars, and away, flying at a height of perhaps a hundred meters.
• 1989 D. Simmons Hyperion (1990) № 301: Their lifters could fail but, even so, the residual charge in the EM generators would allow the aircar to descend safely from any altitude.

[the use of this word predates SF by a long shot, but it is very common in SF]

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