EHang 216‑S “Completes Debut Flight in Downtown Shanghai”
EHang recently announced its 216‑S autonomous eVTOL had successfully completed an inaugural demonstration flight in downtown Shanghai, reports a press release.
The company has launched regular trials of eVTOL sightseeing routes by the Huangpu River at Longhua Airport, in preparation for the following commercial operations in Shanghai.
This Airport is home to the East China General Aviation Service Centre of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) and viewed as the only one in Shanghai downtown area with apron airspace. It is also an important base for the increasing development of Shanghai’s low-altitude economy (LAE).
Longhua offers ideal conditions for various LAE activities, including aerial mobility, tourism and sightseeing, emergency rescue and logistics. “The Shanghai flight not only showcased EH216‑S’s capabilities for commercial applications in urban sightseeing and travel scenarios, but also laid a solid foundation for its future gradual implementation and realisation of regular commercial operations of urban air taxis in the Yangtze River Delta region centred around Shanghai,” explains the release.


EH216‑S Autonomous eVTOL Completes Debut Flight in Shanghai
The eVTOL used for this debut flight is one of the aircraft delivered to EHang’s customer, Shanghai Hynfar Aviation. Hynfar is focusing on future commercial operations in Shanghai.
EHang and Hynfar as well as the New Margin Eastwood Fund, will use Longhua Airport as their base, to develop a variety of LAE eVTOL operational scenarios such as passenger transportation and urban sightseeing in the Shanghai area as well as covering cities and regions along the Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Innovation Corridor (including nine cities across Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui provinces).

Operation Centre at Longhua Airport in Shanghai
Zhao Wang, EHang’s COO, remarked, “We will fully leverage our first-mover advantage as the world’s first certified eVTOL company and join hands with Hynfar Aviation, which has been deeply rooted in the civil aviation field for many years, and combine the all-encompassing layout and rich cultural and tourism resources of the New Margin Eastwood Fund in the low-altitude economic sector. The aim is to actively promote market-oriented, EH216‑S commercial operations in Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta region.”
He continued, “Together, we will explore the diversified application scenarios within the low-altitude economy and jointly build a smarter and more efficient UAM ecosystem, making air taxi rides a part of consumers’ daily travel routines.”
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(Top image: Numerous guests observedthe debut flight of EH216‑S in the city centre of Shanghai — Credit: EHang)
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