TCab Tech has concluded its inaugural round of flight testing for the E20 eVTOL, after being awarded a special flight permit and aircraft registration certificate from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) in June. The eVTOL aircraft, registered with tail number BO-EEW, underwent hover, transition, and cruise flight phases at Dongyang Hengdian General Airport in Zhejiang Province. According to the Chinese start-up, this was all achieved within just four months of the aircraft’s assembly.
In a press release, TCab Tech founder and CEO Huang Yongwei expressed confidence that the E20 is poised to become China's first domestically certified tiltrotor eVTOL aircraft. On October 27, CAAC accepted its application for a type certificate. Earlier this month, EHang’s EH216-S multicopter autonomous aerial vehicle became the first eVTOL to complete type certification with CAAC, which also marked a world-first.
