EHang EH216 AAV Completes EU SESAR AMU-LED Project Flight Demonstrations in Spain

EHang Hold­ings has announced that its EH216 AAV has per­formed suc­cess­ful flight demon­stra­tions in Spain under the Euro­pean Union (EU) Air Mobil­i­ty Urban — Large Exper­i­men­tal Demon­stra­tion (AMU-LED) project.

As one of Europe’s largest urban air mobil­i­ty (UAM) demon­stra­tion projects, the EH216 flight demon­stra­tions were recent­ly con­duct­ed at the Rozas Air­borne Research Cen­ter (CIAR) of Spain’s Nation­al Insti­tute of Aero­space Tech­nol­o­gy at Lugo in Gali­cia, Spain.

These demon­stra­tions ver­i­fied and val­i­dat­ed the UAM Con­cepts of Oper­a­tions (ConOps), to suc­cess­ful­ly accom­plish objec­tives of the AMU-LED project. For the demon­stra­tions, the autonomous eVTOL EH216’s flight data were inte­grat­ed into the project’s U‑space plat­form.

The demo flights were safe­ly and effi­cient­ly oper­at­ed under var­i­ous sim­u­lat­ed sce­nar­ios, which include the pres­ence of oth­er unmanned aer­i­al sys­tems (UAS) in the sur­round­ing air­space, and the suc­cess­ful imple­men­ta­tion of con­flict man­age­ment pro­ce­dures dur­ing flight and approach to the land­ing ver­ti­port.

The AMU-LED project is part of the EU Hori­zon 2020 pro­gramme framed in the SESAR (Sin­gle Euro­pean Sky ATM Research) Joint Under­tak­ing, with the ulti­mate goal of per­form­ing large-scale demon­stra­tions of UAM ser­vices with air vehi­cles and the safe inte­gra­tion of dif­fer­ent types of UAS oper­a­tions in urban envi­ron­ments.

The project kicked off in Jan­u­ary 2021 and is to be con­clud­ed with the suc­cess­ful flight demon­stra­tions con­duct­ed by EHang with its EH216 AAV at CIAR in Spain in Octo­ber 2022.

As one of the 16 AMU-LED con­sor­tium mem­bers, EHang part­nered with world-renowned UAM stake­hold­ers that include aero­space research insti­tutes, uni­ver­si­ties, UAS, and eVTOL man­u­fac­tur­ers and oper­a­tors, as well as air nav­i­ga­tion and U‑space ser­vice providers.

EHang Europe and Latin Amer­i­ca chief oper­at­ing offi­cer Vic­to­ria Jing Xiang com­ment­ed: “EH216’s flight demon­stra­tions are of para­mount impor­tance to the AMU-LED project, which enables the devel­op­ment of UAM and U‑space in Europe.

“With the EH216 flight demon­stra­tions, EHang is proud to con­tin­ue con­tribut­ing to inno­v­a­tive deploy­ments of safe, sus­tain­able and effi­cient aer­i­al trans­porta­tion for every­one with our cut­ting-edge AAV tech­nolo­gies.”

EHang announced in late Sep­tem­ber that progress was being made with its EH216‑S Type Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Process, and the Project Spe­cif­ic Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Plan has been offi­cial­ly approved by the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion of Chi­na (CAAC).

In August, the EHang share price fell 2.33 per­cent, clos­ing at $7.56, with the only inter­est shown by the spe­cial­ist finan­cial web­sites being to upload a tran­script of an EHang Con­fer­ence Call for investors.