AutoFlight V2000CG Granted World’s First eVTOL Overseas Type Certificate Validation in Indonesia

AutoFlight’s V2000CG Car­ryAll has been grant­ed a Val­i­dat­ed Type Cer­tifi­cate (VTC) in Indone­sia, becom­ing the world’s first eVTOL to secure over­seas type cer­tifi­cate val­i­da­tion.

The cer­ti­fi­ca­tion con­firms that the V2000CG’s design com­plies with the air­wor­thi­ness require­ments of both the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion of Chi­na (CAAC) and Indonesia’s Direc­torate Gen­er­al of Civ­il Avi­a­tion (DGCA).

For­mal­ly issued on June 3rd, the cer­tifi­cate clears the 2‑ton unmanned car­go eVTOL to begin com­mer­cial oper­a­tions in the Indone­sian mar­ket.

The V2000CG first obtained its Type Cer­tifi­cate (TC) from the CAAC in March 2024, fol­low­ing exten­sive com­pli­ance ver­i­fi­ca­tion and flight test­ing. Aut­oFlight sub­mit­ted its VTC appli­ca­tion to the DGCA in July 2025.

The val­i­da­tion process drew on com­par­a­tive analy­sis of air­wor­thi­ness stan­dards, mul­ti­ple rounds of tech­ni­cal con­sul­ta­tion, a com­pre­hen­sive doc­u­men­ta­tion review, and on-site inspec­tions in Chi­na by Indone­sian author­i­ties, after which the DGCA con­firmed full com­pli­ance with Indone­sian reg­u­la­tions.

With more than 17,000 islands, Indone­sia faces sig­nif­i­cant logis­tics chal­lenges. Mar­itime trans­port is slow, while con­ven­tion­al air car­go depends on cost­ly run­way infra­struc­ture.

With a max­i­mum take-off weight of 2,000 kg, a cruise speed of 200 km/h, and a range of 200 km, the V2000CG address­es these con­straints through a ful­ly elec­tric lift-and-cruise con­fig­u­ra­tion that takes off and lands ver­ti­cal­ly with­out run­ways.

This makes it well suit­ed to inter-island trans­port of high-val­ue goods, includ­ing fresh pro­duce, phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, and emer­gency sup­plies, and deliv­ers a reli­able low-alti­tude logis­tics solu­tion for South­east Asia.

The V2000CG is the only ton-class eVTOL in the world to hold the full set of CAAC air­wor­thi­ness cer­tifi­cates of TC, Pro­duc­tion Cer­tifi­cate (PC), and Air­wor­thi­ness Cer­tifi­cate (AC). It has already demon­strat­ed its oper­a­tional capa­bil­i­ty in off­shore logis­tics, island resup­ply and emer­gency response mis­sions in Chi­na.

The Indone­sian VTC accel­er­ates the full indus­tri­al chain, from tech­ni­cal val­i­da­tion and air­wor­thi­ness cer­ti­fi­ca­tion through to over­seas com­mer­cial deploy­ment. The mile­stone estab­lish­es an oper­a­tional foun­da­tion for com­mer­cial eVTOL ser­vices in South­east Asia and advances AutoFlight’s broad­er strat­e­gy for glob­al mar­ket expan­sion.

About TC and VTC

TC (Type Cer­tifi­cate) refers to a cer­tifi­cate issued by civ­il avi­a­tion author­i­ties for civ­il air­craft, aero-engines, or pro­pellers, cer­ti­fy­ing that the design of the avi­a­tion prod­uct com­plies with the applic­a­ble air­wor­thi­ness require­ments. As one of the ‘Three Air­wor­thi­ness Cer­tifi­cates’ (TC, PC, AC), it is the foun­da­tion for the legal entry of an air­craft into the domes­tic mar­ket and com­mer­cial oper­a­tion.

VTC (Val­i­dat­ed Type Cer­tifi­cate) is a val­i­da­tion cer­tifi­cate issued by the civ­il avi­a­tion author­i­ty of an import­ing country/region to a type design that has already obtained a TC in anoth­er coun­try, cer­ti­fy­ing that the import­ed avi­a­tion product’s design com­plies with the air­wor­thi­ness stan­dards and reg­u­la­tions of the import­ing coun­try. The VTC is equiv­a­lent to the TC in terms of legal valid­i­ty and air­wor­thi­ness require­ments.