TCab Tech and SIDEC Sign MOU to Explore E20 eVTOL Commercialisation in Malaysia

Chi­nese eVTOL devel­op­er TCab Tech has signed a mem­o­ran­dum of under­stand­ing (MOU) with Malaysia’s Selan­gor Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy and Dig­i­tal Econ­o­my Cor­po­ra­tion (SIDEC) to explore com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion of its five-seat E20 elec­tric air­craft in Malaysia and sup­port expan­sion across South­east Asia.

The agree­ment was announced on 9 Octo­ber 2026 at the open­ing of a month-long E20 show­case at IOI City Mall in Putra­jaya, mark­ing the aircraft’s Malaysian debut. The MOU sets out coop­er­a­tion on cer­ti­fi­ca­tion prepa­ra­tions, indus­try engage­ment and poten­tial com­mer­cial appli­ca­tions, but does not con­firm an air­craft order or a timetable for ser­vice entry.

Under the agree­ment, TCab Tech will con­tribute its exper­tise in eVTOL devel­op­ment and man­u­fac­tur­ing, while SIDEC will use its local indus­try net­work to help coor­di­nate engage­ment with gov­ern­ment agen­cies, the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Author­i­ty of Malaysia (CAAM) and oth­er stake­hold­ers. TCab Tech also plans to estab­lish its region­al busi­ness cen­tre in Malaysia.

The E20 is a five-seat tilt-rotor air­craft intend­ed for appli­ca­tions includ­ing tourism, inter­ci­ty con­nec­tions and urban trans­port. The com­pa­ny is devel­op­ing the air­craft for region­al air mobil­i­ty, although its intro­duc­tion into Malaysia will depend on the applic­a­ble cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and reg­u­la­to­ry require­ments.

TCab Tech is pro­gress­ing through the type-cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process with the Civ­il Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion of Chi­na (CAAC). Accord­ing to the com­pa­ny, it has com­plet­ed key ear­ly cer­ti­fi­ca­tion steps, includ­ing agree­ment on the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion basis, means of com­pli­ance and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion plan. Type cer­ti­fi­ca­tion has not yet been achieved.

Reg­u­la­to­ry coop­er­a­tion between Chi­na and Malaysia could be rel­e­vant to the aircraft’s future mar­ket entry. On 21 Sep­tem­ber 2026, CAAC and CAAM signed an avi­a­tion safe­ty coop­er­a­tion MOU cov­er­ing areas includ­ing air­wor­thi­ness, organ­i­sa­tion­al cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, per­son­nel licens­ing and oper­a­tional over­sight. The agree­ment pro­vides a frame­work for coop­er­a­tion between the author­i­ties, but does not in itself estab­lish approval for the E20 to oper­ate in Malaysia.

Malaysia is also devel­op­ing its reg­u­la­to­ry approach to advanced air mobil­i­ty. CAAM has begun work on an AAM tech­ni­cal work­ing group, a con­cept of oper­a­tions and a nation­al roadmap, along­side con­sid­er­a­tion of reg­u­la­to­ry sand­box arrange­ments.

As part of the wider part­ner­ship, TCab Tech founder and chief exec­u­tive Ng Yon Wui has been appoint­ed an indus­try advis­er to SIDEC, with a remit cov­er­ing aero­space, advanced air mobil­i­ty and oth­er emerg­ing tech­nol­o­gy sec­tors.

The lat­est agree­ment estab­lish­es a frame­work for TCab Tech’s engage­ment in Malaysia. Any oper­a­tional deploy­ment will depend on progress with air­craft cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, local reg­u­la­to­ry require­ments and the devel­op­ment of suit­able infra­struc­ture and busi­ness mod­els.

Thomas Sleightholm

Thomas is a con­tent writer for eVTOL Insights, cov­er­ing all aspects of the glob­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty ecosys­tem. Got a sto­ry for him? Please send an email to editorial@evtolinsights.com

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