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China's AutoFlight Appoints U.S. Leadership Team for Prosperity eVTOL Aircraft
Omer Bar-Yohay, founder and former CEO of Eviation Aircraft, has become AutoFlight's president, and Joby's head of business development, Chad Cashin, is joining as chief commercial officer.
AutoFlight's Prosperity I eVTOL aircraft is expected to complete type certification in 2025.
AutoFlight's Prosperity I eVTOL aircraft is to be certified by EASA and then the FAA to gain access to key urban air mobility markets. (Image: AutoFlight)

AutoFlight has appointed a new U.S.-based leadership team to oversee its plans to start deliveries of the four-seat Prosperity I eVTOL aircraft for commercial service in 2026. The Chinese company this week named Eviation Aircraft’s founder and former CEO, Omer Bar-Yohay, as its president. It also named Joby Aviation’s former head of business development, Chad Cashin, as its chief commercial officer.

At a new U.S. base at Napa County Airport in California, AutoFlight will expand the flight envelope for the current version of the Prosperity model as it works to freeze the design by the end of 2022. The company’s expanded U.S. subsidiary will now work alongside the design organization it established earlier this year in Augsburg, Germany, and its manufacturing hub near Shanghai.

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