Sino Jet Signs Agreement to Purchase 100 Aerofugia eVTOL Aircraft

Sino Jet, Asia-Pacific’s major busi­ness avi­a­tion enter­prise, has signed a pro­cure­ment agree­ment with Aerofu­gia, a sub­sidiary of Geely Group, for the acqui­si­tion of 100 eVTOL air­craft, reports a press release.

Also, the two com­pa­nies state they have strength­ened their part­ner­ship with an exclu­sive strate­gic coop­er­a­tion agree­ment. Both say “they are set to col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly shape the ongo­ing air­wor­thi­ness stan­dards for eVTOLs, pro­vid­ing a com­pre­hen­sive solu­tion for low-alti­tude, three-dimen­sion­al com­mer­cial oper­a­tions.”

The release states, “The AE200 eVTOLs pro­cured by Sino Jet have a max­i­mum range of 200–300 km, a cruis­ing speed of 250 km/h, while the noise of the pro­pel­lor is only around 45 dB. Hav­ing suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed its maid­en flight, the pro­to­type has embarked on com­pre­hen­sive type cer­ti­fi­ca­tion efforts. The AE200 is the first tilt-rotor eVTOL to com­plete full-scale pro­to­type test flight in Chi­na.”

It con­tin­ues, “As the largest sin­gle order for manned eVTOLs in the Chi­nese busi­ness avi­a­tion sec­tor, this agree­ment marks the intro­duc­tion of eVTOLs into the busi­ness avi­a­tion land­scape.”

And con­cludes, “Fol­low­ing the sign­ing of the strate­gic agree­ment, Sino Jet will lever­age its exten­sive expe­ri­ence in air­craft oper­a­tions, deploy­ing a high­ly digi­tised air­craft life­cy­cle man­age­ment sys­tem and a skilled pro­fes­sion­al team to facil­i­tate the estab­lish­ment of con­tin­u­ous air­wor­thi­ness stan­dards and com­pli­ance meth­ods for eVTOLs.”

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http://www.sinojet.org/

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