EHang “Applying for VT-35 eVTOL Certification”

EHang announced last week at the Bei­jing Chi­na Tech­nol­o­gy and Edu­ca­tion in Civ­il Avi­a­tion event that its new VT-35, an improve­ment on the pre­vi­ous VT-30, an autonomous, two-pas­sen­ger eVTOL air­craft designed for inter-city trans­porta­tion, is apply­ing for cer­ti­fi­ca­tion from the CAAC, reports an X tweet. The com­pa­ny was exhibit­ing its range of EH216 autonomous air­craft.

A state­ment says, “Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and Pro­duc­tion Progress of EHang’s VT35, a next-gen­er­a­tion long-range lift-and-cruise pilot­less eVTOL and upgrad­ed ver­sion of the VT30, is in the process of apply­ing for China’s Type cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. The CAAC has accept­ed this appli­ca­tion. EHang plans to unveil the VT35 in Q3 of 2025.” The eVTOL has an abil­i­ty of fly­ing sev­er­al hun­dred miles dur­ing one flight.

Mean­while, the pas­sen­ger-car­ry­ing EH216‑S on dis­play at the show has achieved over 66,000 safe flights across 19 coun­tries with no acci­dents, demon­strat­ing its excep­tion­al safe­ty and com­mer­cial poten­tial. The EH216‑F, also exhib­it­ed, is designed for high-rise fire res­cue mis­sions, offer­ing fast response, high effi­cien­cy, and safe remote oper­a­tion.

The EH216‑S and 216‑F on dis­play at the Bei­jing Chi­na Tech­nol­o­gy and Edu­ca­tion in Civ­il Avi­a­tion event (images: EHang)

Dur­ing the event, Han Jun, Deputy Admin­is­tra­tor of the CAAC, vis­it­ed the EHang booth and “praised the company’s con­tin­ued lead­er­ship in autonomous avi­a­tion, air­wor­thi­ness cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, and safe oper­a­tions.”

While EHang’s recent Q1 2025 results of USD3.6 mil­lion rev­enue, a decline from from both the pre­vi­ous Q1 and Q4 of 2024, the com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to suc­cess­ful­ly expand. In late March, the CAAC issued China’s first-ever oper­a­tor cer­tifi­cate for an autonomous pas­sen­ger-car­ry­ing air­craft. The com­pa­ny is also expand­ing its Yun­fu pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty, by dou­bling the foot­print to 48,000 sq.metres, to tar­get 1,000 units in annu­al out­put by year-end. 

Sep­a­rate­ly, in Feb­ru­ary, the com­pa­ny announced a part­ner­ship with JAC Motors and Guox­i­an Hold­ings to build an advanced eVTOL pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty in Hefei. The new site will focus on auto­mat­ed, stan­dard­ised and scal­able man­u­fac­tur­ing to meet grow­ing demand in China’s low-alti­tude econ­o­my.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.ehang.com

(Top image: VT-30)

For the lat­est news, insights and con­tent regard­ing the glob­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty mar­ket, please join the fol­low­ing eVTOL Insights chan­nels: What­sApp, Face­book, Insta­gram, Spo­ti­fy, Apple Pod­casts, YouTube, X and LinkedIn.