EHang Announces Progress in EH216‑S Type Certification Process

EHang announced late last week that progress is being made with its EH216‑S Type Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Process, reports a press release. The Project Spe­cif­ic Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Plan has been offi­cial­ly approved by the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion of Chi­na (CAAC).

The release states, “At present, var­i­ous spec­i­fied review sub­jects have been con­firmed includ­ing per­for­mance and flight, struc­tur­al strength, design and con­fig­u­ra­tion, ground con­trol sta­tion, air­borne human-com­put­er inter­ac­tion, total­i­ty, con­tin­ued air­wor­thi­ness, etc., and activ­i­ties for demon­stra­tion and ver­i­fi­ca­tion of com­pli­ance are being pre­pared.”

It con­tin­ues, “Fur­ther­more, mul­ti­ple pos­i­tive results have been achieved on the spe­cif­ic algo­rithms based on aero­dy­nam­ics, test flights for the over­load ratio bound­ary, etc..”

Based on more than 30,000 suc­cess­ful tri­al flights of EH216‑S, the com­pa­ny plans to con­duct fur­ther sup­ple­men­tary test activ­i­ties and tri­al flights for ver­i­fi­ca­tion from this month.

Huazhi Hu

Huazhi Hu, Founder, Chair­man and CEO of EHang, com­ment­ed, “Com­plet­ing the air­wor­thi­ness cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process is a nec­es­sary and crit­i­cal step to fur­ther val­i­date the prod­uct safe­ty. We are ful­ly con­fi­dent to obtain the EH216‑S Type Cer­tifi­cate as we have basi­cal­ly done the most ardu­ous work by now. We will make con­tin­ued efforts to accel­er­ate all the remain­ing process­es in the upcom­ing months in order to obtain the EH216‑S Type Cer­tifi­cate as soon as pos­si­ble.”

EHang has estab­lished a reg­u­lar coop­er­a­tive work mech­a­nism with the EH216‑S AAV TC Review Pan­el organ­ised by the CAAC after it for­mal­ly adopt­ed the Spe­cial Con­di­tions in Feb­ru­ary.

To date, there hasn’t yet been any case of an autonomous eVTOL air­craft hav­ing obtained the Type Cer­tifi­cate in the world, which makes the EH216‑S TC project the first of its type.

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