EHang Holdings Limited, an autonomous aerial vehicle (“AAV”) technology platform company, has announced the latest updates of its passenger-grade AAV EH216-S Type Certification (“TC”) process. The company has received official approval for the Project Specific Certification Plan from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (“CAAC”). Currently, various specified review subjects regarding the EH216-S have been confirmed, including performance and flight, structural strength, design and configuration, ground control station, airborne human-computer interaction, totality, continued airworthiness, etc.
The company is in the process of preparing the vehicle for demonstration and verification of compliance. According to EHang, the company has achieved multiple positive results on the specific algorithms based on aerodynamics, test flights for the overload ratio boundary, etc. The Company has decided to conduct further supplementary test activities and test flights for verification in October 2022 based on more than 30,000 safe trial flights of EH216-S that have been accumulated.