Lilium Gets Clearance To Resume eVTOL Flight Testing in Spain

The company had to suspend flight testing for just over two years after losing a technology demonstrator to a ground fire in February 2020.

Lilium's Phoenix 2 eVTOL technology demonstrator at the Atlas Flight Test Center in Villacarrillo, Spain. — Lilium's Phoenix 2 eVTOL technology demonstrator has been cleared by Spanish officials to start flight testing at the Atlas Flight Test Center in Villacarrillo. (Image: Lilium)

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

March 29, 2022

Spanish civil aviation officials this week issued the required operational authorization permit for Lilium to resume flight testing with its fifth-generation eVTOL aircraft technology demonstrator. In January, the German manufacturer moved its so-called Phoenix 2 aircraft to Atlas Flight Test Center in Villacarrillo, and it expects to add another example to the test campaign in the next few months.

Lilium had to suspend flight testing in February 2020 after its first technology demonstrator was destroyed in a fire during maintenance work on the ground. The company is finalizing the design of a larger, seven-seat production aircraft and aims to be ready to start flight testing this version by the first quarter of 2023.

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