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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.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.ehang.com

(Top image: Numer­ous guests observedthe debut flight of EH216‑S in the city cen­tre of Shang­hai — Cred­it: EHang)

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