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Watch Video: EHang 216‑S Autonomous eVTOL “Completes First Flight in Brazil”

EHang announced this week anoth­er com­pa­ny mile­stone with a suc­cess­ful first flight of its EH216‑S autonomous eVTOL in Brazil, reports a press release. 

It took place in Quadra, locat­ed in the São Paulo region, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with local oper­a­tor, Gohob­by Future Tech­nolo­gies and was watched by a milieu of VIPs, Avi­a­tion rep­re­sen­ta­tives and the media. This first flight is impor­tant for the future devel­op­ment of UAM solu­tions in Brazil as it is, poten­tial­ly, one of the world’s largest eVTOL mar­kets.

Brazil’s Nation­al Civ­il Avi­a­tion Agency (ANAC) had grant­ed the Exper­i­men­tal Flight Autho­ri­sa­tion Cer­tifi­cate (CAVE) to EHang for the flight. And with­in ANAC’s CAVE cer­tifi­cate frame­work, the part­ner­ship is car­ry­ing out exten­sive tri­al and test cam­paigns for the EH216‑S in close col­lab­o­ra­tion with ANAC and the Brazil­ian Air­space Con­trol Depart­ment (DECEA). These ini­tia­tives are designed to pro­mote the devel­op­ment of Con­cepts of Oper­a­tions and Unmanned Air­craft Traf­fic Man­age­ment (UTM) sys­tems and ser­vices, open­ing the way for safe and effi­cient UAM deploy­ment through­out Brazil.

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Vic­to­ria Xiang, COO of EHang Europe and Latin Amer­i­ca, com­ment­ed, “This is a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone in EHang’s com­mit­ment on devel­op­ing Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty world­wide. The ongo­ing test and tri­al flight cam­paigns for the EH216‑S in Brazil will allow us to amass a vast amount of data, infor­ma­tion and oper­a­tional expe­ri­ence which in turn, will pave the way for devel­op­ing safe, effi­cient, eco-friend­ly and acces­si­ble Urban Air Mobil­i­ty for every­one across Brazil and Latin Amer­i­ca.”

EHang has car­ried out over 50,000 tri­als in 17 coun­tries across Asia, Europe, North Amer­i­ca and Latin Amer­i­ca.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.ehang.com

(Top image: Adri­ano Buzaid, CEO of Gohob­by, Vic­to­ria Jing Xiang, EHang COO for Europe and LatAm and Jose Igna­cio Rex­ach, EHang CCO for Europe and LatAm, pre­sent­ing EHang’s com­mem­o­ra­tive coin of EH216‑S first flight in Brazil)

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