EHang Conducts EH216 Trial Flights in Japan with Official Support
China's EHang this week conducted demonstration flights with its two-seat EH216 eVTOL aircraft during an event at the Kasaoka Air Station in Okayama prefecture in the west of Japan.
EHang this week flew its EH 216 autonomous eVTOL aircraft for the first time in Japan. The Chinese company said that it conducted the trial flights under a special permit from Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Tourism (MILT) with support from the Okayama Kurashiki Mizushima Aero & Space Industry Cluster Study Group (MASC).
One of the flights in the two-seat, all-electric aircraft was made at the “Leading the Revolution of Urban Air Mobility” event during the first few days of June at the Kasaoka Air Station in Okayama prefecture. The manufacturer organized the flight in conjunction with the MASC. The two organizations say they intend to collaborate in work on possible eVTOL aircraft use cases in Japan.
