CAAC Approves AutoFlight’s “TC Application” for Prosperity 1 eVTOL Aircraft

The Civ­il Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion of Chi­na (CAAC) has offi­cial­ly accept­ed AutoFlight’s appli­ca­tion for the Type Cer­tifi­cate (TC) of its Pros­per­i­ty eVTOL Air­craft, reports a press release. Pros­per­i­ty 1 is equipped with an elec­tric propul­sion sys­tem; has a max­i­mum take-off weight of 2,200 kg; and fea­tures a 5‑seat cab­in design. The cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process began last week.  

The release states, “With its ver­sa­til­i­ty in take-off and land­ing, effi­cien­cy, con­ve­nience and envi­ron­men­tal safe­ty, Pros­per­i­ty stands as an ide­al choice for air taxi flights. The eVTOL air­craft will be utilised for point-to-point air trav­el with­in cities and inter­ci­ty areas, with the objec­tive being to ulti­mate­ly offer pric­ing sim­i­lar to ground-based car ser­vices.”

It con­tin­ues, “Obtain­ing air­wor­thi­ness cer­ti­fi­ca­tion is the ini­tial thresh­old to ensure air­craft flight safe­ty and is also the pre­req­ui­site for air­craft to enter com­mer­cial oper­a­tion.” 

In mid-March, the Car­ryAll unmanned air­craft sys­tem inde­pen­dent­ly devel­oped by Aut­oFlight, obtained the Type Cer­tifi­cate (TC) issued by the CAAC, becom­ing the world’s first eVTOL air­craft above one ton to achieve this.

Images of the Pros­per­i­ty 1 eVTOL Air­craft (Cred­it: Aut­oFlight)

In the pre­vi­ous month, Aut­oFlight pre­sent­ed the world’s first inter-city elec­tric air taxidemon­stra­tion flight between the south­ern Chi­nese cities of Shen­zhen and Zhuhai. Pros­per­i­ty com­plet­ed the mile­stone by autonomous­ly fly­ing the 31 mile route. The flight across the Pearl Riv­er Delta took just 20 min­utes, a jour­ney that nor­mal­ly takes up to three hours by car.

The flight route between the cities is part of a future air traf­fic sce­nario planned by the region­al gov­ern­ment as it devel­ops its ‘low-alti­tude econ­o­my’, which could see the open­ing of thou­sands of ver­ti­ports and hun­dreds of eVTOL air routes across the Greater Bay Area in south­ern Chi­na. 

To date, Aut­oFlight has com­plet­ed more than 10,000 eVTOL flights. The com­pa­ny stands as a key play­er in the devel­op­ment of this rev­o­lu­tion­ary tech­nol­o­gy, with a diverse prod­uct range that includes large-scale logis­tics air­craft and pas­sen­ger aer­i­al vehi­cles. The company’s in-house devel­op­ment of essen­tial com­po­nents like com­pos­ite air­frames, elec­tric motors and con­trollers, as well as afford­able avion­ics, “under­scores its com­mit­ment to push­ing the bound­aries of urban air mobil­i­ty.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.autoflight.com/en/

https://teamglobal.net/

(Images: Aut­oFlight)

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