EHang 216‑S, ‑L and ‑F AAVs “Complete UAE Demonstration Flights in Abu Dhabi”

EHang announced this week its three dif­fer­ent Autonomous Aer­i­al Vehi­cle (AAV) eVTOLs have set a new mile­stone with the suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of demon­stra­tion flights in Abu Dhabi, mark­ing the first of its kind in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates (UAE) and Mid­dle East, reports a press release. 

This time the 216‑S car­ried a pas­sen­ger, fol­low­ing its debut “unmanned demo flight” at the DRIFTx event on April 25th, while the EH216‑F (for high-rise fire­fight­ing) and EH216‑L (for aer­i­al logis­tics) per­formed their debuts, show­cas­ing a diverse range of Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM) use sce­nar­ios.

The three AAVs flew over the Emi­rates Fal­cons Avi­a­tion Club in Al Ali, Abu Dhabi with approval from the UAE’s Gen­er­al Civ­il Avi­a­tion Author­i­ty (GCAA).  Mean­while, Mohamed Al Dha­heri, board mem­ber of Mul­ti Lev­el Group (MLG), EHang’s local strate­gic part­ner, enjoyed a ride on the EH216‑S.

The suc­cess­ful demos were watched and applaud­ed by esteemed guests, includ­ing Emi­rati roy­al­ty, civ­il avi­a­tion author­i­ties, gov­ern­ment offi­cials and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the media.

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These lat­est flights “rep­re­sent a con­tin­u­ous fruit­ful out­come of EHang’s fur­ther devel­op­ment in the UAE sup­port­ed by the GCAA, MLG and Wings Logis­tics Hub,” explains the release. And con­tin­ues,  “In close coor­di­na­tion with its part­ners and UAE gov­ern­ment author­i­ties, EHang is active­ly engaged in the design and estab­lish­ment of eVTOL ver­ti­ports, in swift prepa­ra­tion for launch­ing com­mer­cial UAM routes.”

Huazhi Hu, Founder, CEO and Chair­man of EHang, remarked, “After secur­ing the approval for pas­sen­ger-car­ry­ing demo flights and con­duct­ing the debut flight, we will active­ly fos­ter col­lab­o­ra­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tion between the GCAA and the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion of Chi­na to expe­dite the progress towards com­mer­cial flights of our pilot­less air­craft in the UAE, which will become a mile­stone in the advance­ment of Abu Dhabi and the glob­al air mobil­i­ty sec­tor.”

He added, “With strong local gov­ern­ment sup­port and val­ued part­ner­ships, EHang is poised to con­tin­ue lead­ing the charge of UAM in the UAE and beyond.”

(Images: 216‑S, ‑L, ‑F in Flight over Abu Dhabi. Cred­it — EHang)

Al Dha­heri com­ment­ed, “Being part of this his­toric moment is tru­ly exhil­a­rat­ing. The seam­less inte­gra­tion of tech­nol­o­gy and avi­a­tion rep­re­sents a sig­nif­i­cant leap for­ward for our nation, and as an Emi­rati I am proud to be a part of it.”

EHang has expand­ed into the UAE by join­ing the Smart and Autonomous Vehi­cle Indus­tries (SAVI) Clus­ter. The com­pa­ny has estab­lished a part­ner­ship with Wings Logis­tics Hub in Decem­ber, while form­ing a col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Abu Dhabi Invest­ment Office and MLG last month, to dri­ve eVTOL devel­op­ment in the UAE.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.ehang.com

(Top image: Mohamed Al Dha­heri, board mem­ber of MLG takes a ride on the EH216‑S)

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