EHang Partners with Tianxingjian on Scenic Flight Project with EH216 AAVs

EHang Hold­ings has received an ini­tial pur­chase order for five EH216 autonomous aer­i­al vehi­cles (AAVs) from Tianx­ingjian Cul­tur­al Tourism Invest­ment and Devel­op­ment, an affil­i­at­ed enter­prise of the Jishou city gov­ern­ment in Hunan province, Chi­na.

The two par­ties plan to devel­op a scenic flight project at the Aizhai Won­der Tourist Area in Jishou, while Tianx­ingjian plans to pur­chase an addi­tion­al 25 units as the project evolves.

This is an imple­men­ta­tion of EHang’s pre­vi­ous strate­gic part­ner­ship with the Jishou city gov­ern­ment for in-depth and exten­sive col­lab­o­ra­tion on urban air mobil­i­ty (UAM), such as aer­i­al tourism, UAM infra­struc­ture and oper­a­tion cen­tre devel­op­ment and pro­fes­sion­al tech­ni­cian train­ing.

It also rep­re­sents one of EH216’s typ­i­cal pro­grammes in the field of aer­i­al tourism in Chi­na, and in recent years, the State Coun­cil and the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion of Chi­na issued poli­cies to accel­er­ate inte­grat­ed devel­op­ment of gen­er­al avi­a­tion and aer­i­al tourism.

Aizhai Won­der is a renowned land­mark and a part of the Scenic Area of Shibadong Vil­lage, and Dehang Canyon, a nation­al scenic spot in Hunan. Dur­ing the Work­ers’ Day hol­i­day in May, some tourists wit­nessed EHang’s demo flights for sight­see­ing at the nat­ur­al land­scape.

Dehang Scenic Spot direc­tor of man­age­ment Xiufeng Wu said: “The Jishou city gov­ern­ment is striv­ing to devel­op strate­gic emerg­ing indus­tries for tourism. Inte­grat­ing EH216 AAVs and Aizhai’s cul­tur­al tourism resources can fur­ther enhance Jishou’s tourism brand.”

Chair­per­son of Tianx­ingjian Min Sun added: “Aizhai Won­der has a breath­tak­ing land­scape of steep cliffs, water­falls and prim­i­tive forests, mak­ing it ide­al for aer­i­al sight­see­ing, air mobil­i­ty, and relat­ed projects.

“As a world lead­ing AAV tech­nol­o­gy plat­form com­pa­ny, EHang has advanced soft­ware and hard­ware, as well as rich flight expe­ri­ence. With our respec­tive advan­tages com­bined, we will work togeth­er to set up ver­ti­ports at scenic spot,s includ­ing the Aizhai Bridge and the Jiu­longxi Canyon, and will grad­u­al­ly roll out tri­al oper­a­tions for aer­i­al sight­see­ing.”

EHang chief oper­at­ing offi­cer Xin Fang com­ment­ed: “We are delight­ed to part­ner with the Jishou city gov­ern­ment to bring UAM solu­tions to Aizhai Won­der.

“EHang has been doing tri­al oper­a­tions for aer­i­al sight­see­ing since last year and we believe with our busi­ness expan­sion, EH216 AAVs will fly in more scenic spots around the world, bring­ing tourists safe and com­fort­able aer­i­al sight­see­ing expe­ri­ences.”

Last month, EHang formed a strate­gic part­ner­ship with Charoen Pokp­hand Group of Thai­land to estab­lish a joint ven­ture for AAV sales and UAM.

In April, EHang announced a pre-order for 100 of its EH216 eVTOL air­craft from Pres­tige Avi­a­tion in Indone­sia dur­ing the Indone­sia Inter­na­tion­al Motor Show 2022.