China: “Wuhan’s Hanyang District Orders 12 AutoFlight eVTOLs For USD21.5 Million”

Chi­nese eVTOL com­pa­ny, Aut­oFlight, has secured the sale of 12 air­craft from the Wuhan Hanyang Dis­trict for a sale price of USD21.5 mil­lion, reports AIN.

Aut­oFlight announced this deposit-backed agree­ment last week after the Hanyand invest­ment Devel­op­ment Group plans to launch new air ser­vices in the city of Wuhan and sur­round­ing region which has a pop­u­la­tion of 14 mil­lion peo­ple. The sale is a com­bi­na­tion of AutoFlight’s autonomous car­go Car­ryAll and five seat Pros­per­i­ty pas­sen­ger-car­ry­ing craft.

Accord­ing to Aut­oFlight, its air taxi has a range of up to 136 nau­ti­cal miles and will be used to oper­ate flight net­works con­nect­ing eight satel­lite cities around the greater Wuhan met­ro­pol­i­tan area with jour­neys tak­ing less than 30 min­utes. This net­work will include a ver­ti­port and a new Hanyang high-speed train sta­tion and ser­vice. 

The air­craft will also be employed for tourism sight­see­ing along the Yangtze river’s north­ern bank; car­go deliv­er­ies; and for an emer­gency response fire­fight­ing prac­tice. 

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The man­u­fac­tur­er is estab­lish­ing a region­al head­quar­ters in Wuhan to host a low-alti­tude, full-scene demon­stra­tion cen­tre to show­case dif­fer­ent appli­ca­tions for eVTOLs. Aut­oFlight and Hanyang will also devel­op a Cen­tral Chi­na hub for air­craft pro­duc­tion, test­ing, sales and deliv­ery. The facil­i­ty aims to accel­er­ate the region’s lead­er­ship in next-gen­er­a­tion urban air mobil­i­ty.

Aut­oFlight has already achieved secur­ing type and pro­duc­tion cer­tifi­cates for the car­go Car­ryAll (pay­load of up to 880 lbs) and is prepar­ing to start deliv­er­ing between 15 and 20 air­craft to cus­tomers from March. There are also plans to use it for emer­gency response, in par­tic­u­lar fire-fight­ing, while it is hoped the pilot­ed V2000 EM pas­sen­ger-car­ry­ing ver­sion will be ready for com­mer­cial pur­pose next year.

Many Chi­nese cities includ­ing Hefei, Guangzhou, Shen­zhen, Taiyuan, Zhuhai, and Wencheng are mov­ing clos­er to launch­ing eVTOL air ser­vices.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.autoflight.com/en

(Top image: Cred­it — Aut­oFlight)

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