Watch Video: “EHang Completes First Autonomous Flight in Mexico”

EHang announced this week the first flight of a EH216‑S autonomous eVTOL air­craft in Mex­i­co, reports a press release. This expands EHang’s glob­al pres­ence by bring­ing its flight foot­print to 19 dif­fer­ent coun­tries. 

The company’s pres­ence not only strength­ens Mex­i­co’s role in the glob­al UAM mar­ket, but also accel­er­ates the advance­ment of the glob­al UAM indus­try. 

Mex­i­co pro­vides an ide­al envi­ron­ment for the growth of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) solu­tions with its dense­ly pop­u­lat­ed cities, vibrant tourism sec­tor and estab­lished man­u­fac­tur­ing indus­try.

The release explains, “The flight was suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed fol­low­ing the grant­i­ng of a Spe­cial Air­wor­thi­ness Cer­tifi­cate for the EH216‑S by Mexico’s Fed­er­al Civ­il Avi­a­tion Agency (AFAC). The oper­a­tional autho­ri­sa­tion process was rig­or­ous and detailed, includ­ing tech­ni­cal doc­u­ment reviews, air­wor­thi­ness inspec­tions, oper­a­tions man­u­al approval, crew train­ing and licens­ing, and com­pli­ance with avi­a­tion safe­ty and oper­a­tional stan­dards in Mex­i­co.”

This flight was made pos­si­ble through the close coor­di­na­tion between Mexico’s AFAC, EHang and local part­ner Air Mobil­i­ty who suc­cess­ful­ly oper­at­ed the air­craft, lay­ing a sol­id foun­da­tion for future eVTOL com­mer­cial oper­a­tions.

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Cristi­na Lara, CEO of Air Mobil­i­ty com­ment­ed, “We are ded­i­cat­ed to bring­ing inno­v­a­tive and sus­tain­able advanced air mobil­i­ty solu­tions to the peo­ple in Mex­i­co. This is an impor­tant step in real­is­ing our vision of sus­tain­able, safe and effi­cient air mobil­i­ty in Mex­i­co.”

Vic­to­ria Jing Xiang, COO at EHang Europe and Latin Amer­i­ca, added, “In the future, we will expand oper­a­tions to more Latin Amer­i­can coun­tries, expand­ing this safe, advanced and sus­tain­able air mobil­i­ty to more cities, ben­e­fit­ing the peo­ple in Mex­i­co, Latin Amer­i­ca and improv­ing our lives.”

Vic­to­ria Jing Xiang

The release con­tin­ues, “The col­lab­o­ra­tion between AFAC and the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion of Chi­na (CAAC) con­tin­ues to grow. In August 2023, both par­ties signed a Strength­en­ing Com­pre­hen­sive Coop­er­a­tion Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing. This agree­ment cov­ers key areas such as envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion, oper­a­tional safe­ty, capac­i­ty build­ing and the reg­u­la­tion of unmanned air­craft sys­tems.” And goes on, “Through this inter­na­tion­al part­ner­ship, Mex­i­co is accel­er­at­ing the adop­tion of pilot­less eVTOL air­craft tech­nol­o­gy and advanced avi­a­tion solu­tions.”

Adding, ”The suc­cess­ful first flight of the EH216‑S in Mex­i­co marks the begin­ning of urban air mobil­i­ty solu­tions in the coun­try and pro­motes the growth of its low-alti­tude econ­o­my. EHang and its part­ners are help­ing to shape the future of urban trans­porta­tion, pro­vid­ing safe, sus­tain­able, and effi­cient air mobil­i­ty solu­tions for cities, busi­ness­es and tourists.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.ehang.com

(Top image: EH216‑S’s first flight in Mex­i­co)

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Fur­ther Images

AFAC issu­ing the Spe­cial Air­wor­thi­ness Cer­tifi­cate for EH216‑S

AFAC, EHang, Air Mobil­i­ty and EH216‑S

Cristi­na Lara, Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer of Air Mobil­i­ty, deliv­er­ing a speech