“Aerofugia AE200-100 eVTOL Prototype Begins Production”

Aerofu­gia, the Chi­na-based eVTOL devel­op­er, announced this week pro­duc­tion of its AE200-100, 6 seater eVTOL pro­to­type has begun, reports a press release.

The news marks the com­ple­tion of the aircraft’s major struc­tur­al assem­bly and core avion­ics instal­la­tion, bring­ing it clos­er to crewed flight test­ing.

The release says, “This announce­ment marks a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone in the eVTOL’s devel­op­ment and sig­ni­fies the AE-200–100 has entered the final stages of its air­wor­thi­ness cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, pre-pro­duc­tion and ulti­mate mass-pro­duc­tion. The air­craft has already suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed its all-tilt tran­si­tion flight test, becom­ing the sec­ond in the world and the first manned eVTOL in Chi­na to com­plete this project.”

Adding, “After com­plet­ing the nec­es­sary cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, the pro­duc­tion vari­ant of the AE200 will begin wide­spread com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion.”

At present, Aerofu­gia has secured over 1,000 com­mer­cial orders for the AE200, with first-year pro­duc­tion capac­i­ty ful­ly booked due to strong mar­ket demand. Orders have come from major met­ro­pol­i­tan regions in Chi­na and abroad includ­ing Sichuan Air­lines, Hua­long Air­lines, Shen­zhen City Trans­porta­tion Low-Alti­tude Oper­a­tional Cen­ter, Thailand’s SIT, etc.. At the roll­out event, Aerofu­gia pre­sent­ed inau­gur­al user cer­tifi­cates to these first batch of cus­tomers.

Aerofu­gia Man­age­ment Team

The release con­tin­ues, “The pro­to­type vari­ant offers an inno­v­a­tive eight-rotor, four-tilt­ed-wing con­fig­u­ra­tion and with a range of 200 km, the AE200 is able to be utilised in areas such as urban air mobil­i­ty, low-alti­tude tourism and emer­gency res­cue. The elec­tric dri­ve sys­tem sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduces oper­at­ing costs com­pared to con­ven­tion­al heli­copters.”

Aerofugia’s Cheng­du HQ is slat­ed to begin oper­a­tions next year, inte­grat­ing R&D, pro­duc­tion, test­ing and deliv­ery.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://zgh.com/aerofugia/?lang=en)

(Top image: Aerofu­gia AE200-100 Air­craft)

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