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EASA Certification for CityAirbus NextGen Expected in 2025
Airbus says public acceptance will be key to the future of urban air mobility and eVTOL aircraft like its CityAirbus NextGen.
Airbus’s next-generation CityAirbus eVTOL aircraft will fly up to 80 kilometers with one pilot and three passengers, and the company expects it to be certified within three years.
Airbus’s next-generation CityAirbus eVTOL aircraft will fly up to 80 kilometers with one pilot and three passengers, and the company expects it to be certified within three years.

Airbus expects its planned urban air mobility vehicle—known as the CityAirbus NextGen eVTOL aircraft—to gain EASA certification in 2025, Balkiz Sarihan, Airbus head of urban air mobility strategy execution and partnerships told media during a Dubai Airshow briefing on Monday. Meanwhile, the company continues to gauge public acceptance of the safety, viability, and convenience of urban air mobility (UAM), which will prove key to Airbus’s efforts to stake a claim to a major portion of the development in the space in the coming years, she added.

The European aerospace group unveiled the CityAirbus NextGen design in September and a prototype is expected to make its first flight in 2023. The concept builds on lessons learned from the evaluation of the earlier Vahana and CityAirbus technology demonstrators. 

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