Chinese air mobility maker EHang said on define eroticizedThursday that its EH216-S, a passenger-carrying unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), had been granted China’s standard Airworthiness Certificate (AC), marking it the world’s first unmanned electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft to receive such certification. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) certified EH216-S, produced at EHang’s Yunfu Production Base, complies with the type certificate (TC) issued by the CAAC in October 2023 and follows procedures set by CAAC for production. The first EH216-S has already been delivered to ETON, an aviation technology subsidiary of China’s Guangzhou Development District Communications Investment Group, which is managed by Guangzhou’s Huangpu District local government. [CAAC, in Chinese]
