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Lilium Pushes Projected eVTOL Aircraft Type Certification into 2025
The company says it will build and start flying the first production-conforming versions of the seven-seat Lilium Jet in 2023 and will then need another 15 to 18 months to earn EASA type certification.
Lilium Jet technology demonstrator is conducting flight tests in Spain.
In early April, Lilium's fifth-generation eVTOL aircraft technology demonstrator was cleared to resume flight testing in Spain. (Image: Lilium)

Lilium has pushed back the projected timeline to achieve type certification of its seven-seat Lilium Jet eVTOL aircraft by potentially 12 or more months into 2025. The public company confirmed the delay to investors via a 20-F filing late on March 30 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

In a blog released to coincide with a conference on March 31 for more than 70 of its suppliers, Lilium founder and CEO Daniel Wiegand reported that the Germany-based company will now start building the first production-conforming aircraft for the EASA type certification process in 2023. “We will then spend the following 15 to 18 months running our final test campaign with the aim of receiving our initial type certification in 2025, with scale production of our aircraft set to begin immediately upon type certification,” he said.