VIDEO: AutoFlight completes first eVTOL aircraft flight as part of landmark demo in Kazahkstan

Aut­oFlight has suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed the first ton-class eVTOL demon­stra­tion flight in Alatau City, Kaza­khstan – mark­ing the first eVTOL Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM) flight in Cen­tral Asia.

Dur­ing the cer­e­mo­ny, Alatau Advance Air Group Ltd (AAAG) signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) with Aut­oFlight for 50 more units of V2000/V5000 series eVTOL, build­ing on an exist­ing pur­chase agree­ment for Aut­oFlight’s large-scale eVTOL.

Alish­er Abdykady­rov, CEO of Alatau City Author­i­ty, said: “This is more than a demon­stra­tion of a new tech­nol­o­gy. It rep­re­sents a tran­si­tion toward a new mod­el of urban devel­op­ment, where inno­va­tion, dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion, and advanced mobil­i­ty solu­tions become a new eco­nom­ic sec­tor.”

Aut­oFlight will work close­ly with AAAG and Kaza­kh author­i­ties to advance air­wor­thi­ness cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, oper­a­tional stan­dards, and pilot train­ing frame­works across the region.

AAAG’s momen­tum in Kaza­khstan con­tin­ues to gath­er pace and this mile­stone with Aut­oFlight is on top of sev­er­al oth­er key announce­ments made last year.

In Decem­ber 2025, AAAG signed an agree­ment with UrbanV to design Kazakhstan’s first ver­ti­port net­work.

The ini­tia­tive will ini­tial­ly focus on the emerg­ing Smart City of Alatau and the met­ro­pol­i­tan area of Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, to sup­port the country’s ambi­tion to become a lead­ing hub for next-gen­er­a­tion mobil­i­ty in Cen­tral Asia.

The first project will be the design of a Test-Cen­ter in Alatau City, a ded­i­cat­ed facil­i­ty that will serve as the foun­da­tion­al infra­struc­ture to enable ear­ly test­ing and demon­stra­tion flights with eVTOL air­craft.

Addi­tion­al­ly, AAAG strength­ened this com­mit­ment by sign­ing a Let­ter of Intent with Joby Avi­a­tion, to sell eVTOLs and relat­ed ser­vices val­ued up to $250 mil­lion

The agree­ment, which includes pre-deliv­ery pay­ments, is being sup­port­ed by a par­al­lel Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) between Joby and Kazakhstan’s Min­istry of Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence and Dig­i­tal Devel­op­ment.