EHang’s EH216‑S obtains standard Airworthiness Certificate from China’s CAAC, certified aircraft delivered to Guangzhou customer

EHang has announced its EH216‑S pas­sen­ger-car­ry­ing unmanned air­craft has obtained the stan­dard Air­wor­thi­ness Cer­tifi­cate from the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion of Chi­na (CAAC).

The cer­ti­fied EH216‑S, pro­duced at EHang’s Yun­fu Pro­duc­tion Base, adheres to the Type Cer­tifi­cate issued by the CAAC in Octo­ber 2023, and the stan­dard pro­duc­tion pro­ce­dures under the super­vi­sion of the CAAC.

Huazhi Hu, Founder, Chair­man and CEO of EHang, said: “Bol­stered by a suite of sup­port­ive poli­cies on the low-alti­tude econ­o­my (a strate­gic emerg­ing indus­try in Chi­na), EHang and the UAV indus­try are pre­sent­ed with tremen­dous oppor­tu­ni­ties.

“Today, we have set anoth­er mile­stone with the first AC for pilot­less pas­sen­ger-car­ry­ing eVTOL air­craft and start­ed com­mer­cial deliv­ery of the cer­ti­fied EH216‑S to our cus­tomer. In the near future, we antic­i­pate an increas­ing num­ber of air­craft rolling off from our pro­duc­tion line to grad­u­al­ly ful­fil our back­log orders, there­by serv­ing more cus­tomers and pas­sen­gers, and enhanc­ing the UAM.”

The Air­wor­thi­ness Cer­tifi­cate con­firms the cer­ti­fied air­craft com­plies with the approved type design and meets safe­ty and qual­i­ty require­ments for com­mer­cial oper­a­tions.

The mile­stone also endors­es EHang’s man­u­fac­tur­ing capa­bil­i­ties, test flights, qual­i­ty assur­ance, and pro­duc­tion man­age­ment align with rel­e­vant reg­u­la­tions and are recog­nised by the CAAC.

The cer­ti­fied EH216‑S under the Air­wor­thi­ness Cer­tifi­cate has been deliv­ered to ETON, an intel­li­gent avi­a­tion tech­nol­o­gy sub­sidiary of Guangzhou Devel­op­ment Dis­trict Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Invest­ment Group, which is man­aged by the local gov­ern­ment of Huang­pu Dis­trict in Guangzhou.

Chengjiu Zhou, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er of Guangzhou Devel­op­ment Dis­trict Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Invest­ment Group, added: “We are thrilled to receive the world’s first cer­ti­fied pas­sen­ger-car­ry­ing UAV from EHang, and are proud of our Guangzhou local enter­prise for this ground­break­ing achieve­ment.

“We are very opti­mistic about our upcom­ing com­mer­cial oper­a­tions of aer­i­al tourism in Guangzhou and the bright future of our busi­ness coop­er­a­tion with EHang. With EHang’s lead­ing-edge, safer, green­er, more effi­cient and cer­ti­fied pas­sen­ger-car­ry­ing UAV solu­tions, as well as robust local gov­ern­ment sup­port in infra­struc­ture and invest­ment, we look for­ward to spear­head­ing the devel­op­ment of the local low-alti­tude econ­o­my.”