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EHang receives biggest pre-order for its EH216 eVTOL aircraft from AEROTREE, with partnership to co-develop UAM services in Malaysia

EHang has con­firmed the largest pre-order for its series of EH216 eVTOL air­craft, after announc­ing a strate­gic part­ner­ship with AEROTREE, a sub­sidiary of Malaysia’s lead­ing avi­a­tion com­pa­ny AEROTREE Group.

The order com­pris­es 50 units, which includes the stan­dard, logis­tics and fire­fight­ing mod­els of the EH216, as well as 10 units of the EHang’s long-range, pas­sen­ger-grade air­craft, the VT-30. Before this agree­ment, AEROTREE has pur­chased one unit of the EH216‑S AAV from EHang.

As part of the agree­ment, both com­pa­nies will also work on devel­op­ing urban air mobil­i­ty ser­vices in Malaysia, which includes Main­te­nance, Repair and Over­haul (MRO) and train­ing.

Dato’ Hal­im Bin Oth­man, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of AEROTREE Group, said: “We are very excit­ed about our strate­gic part­ner­ship with EHang to intro­duce the world’s lead­ing safe, sus­tain­able and autonomous aer­i­al vehi­cles to the Malaysian mar­ket.

“Lever­ag­ing our full spec­trum of capa­bil­i­ties and part­ner­ships that span from MRO to train­ing, we eager­ly antic­i­pate using EHang AAVs for Malaysia’s UAM projects and civ­il avi­a­tion.”

Last month, EHang con­firmed the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion of Chi­na (CAAC) for­mal­ly adopt­ed the Spe­cial Con­di­tions for EH216-SAAV Type Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, which was effec­tive on Feb­ru­ary 9th.

The Spe­cial Con­di­tions pro­vides EHang with the basis for com­pli­ance and safe­ty of EH216‑S AAVs, includ­ing flight per­for­mance, struc­tures, design and con­struc­tions, propul­sion sys­tems, sys­tems and equip­ment, data link and ground con­trol sta­tion. 

As well as Malaysia, EHang has received pre-orders from AirX in Japan to sup­port UAM projects across the coun­try, which was also the first to place an order for EHang’s VT-30 air­craft.

Huazhi Hu, Founder, Chair­man and CEO of EHang, said: “We are pleased to enter the Malaysian mar­ket and increase our pres­ence there through our coop­er­a­tion with AEROTREE. Our com­pre­hen­sive AAV prod­ucts and solu­tions are well suit­ed to a vari­ety of intracity and inter­ci­ty UAM use cas­es in Malaysia, such as pas­sen­ger trans­porta­tion, aer­i­al sight­see­ing, aer­i­al fire­fight­ing and aer­i­al logis­tics.

“The ris­ing demand and pre-orders for a large num­ber of our pas­sen­ger-grade AAVs from Japan and Malaysia will unleash great mar­ket poten­tial for EHang in Asia.”

AEROTREE is regard­ed as a spe­cial­ist in the field of Aero­space and Avi­a­tion Spe­cial Train­ing, Tech­nol­o­gy Devel­op­ment Aero­space, MRO and oth­er devel­op­ment and relat­ed ser­vices. The com­pa­ny has an Air Ser­vice Per­mit license issued by the Malaysian Avi­a­tion Com­mis­sion to enable the flight of air­craft to be per­formed in Malaysian air­space. AEROTREE is also an Autho­rised Main­te­nance Organ­i­sa­tion approved by the Malaysian State Tech­ni­cal Air­wor­thi­ness Author­i­ty and the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Author­i­ty of Malaysia.

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Jason Pritchard

Jason Pritchard is the Editor of eVTOL Insights. He holds a BA from Leicester's De Montfort University and has worked in Journalism and Public Relations for more than a decade. Outside of work, Jason enjoys playing and watching football and golf. He also has a keen interest in Ancient Egypt.

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