EHang has conducted maiden test flights in Japan with its two-seater 216 eVTOL, which is the first passenger-grade autonomous aircraft to be granted permission to fly in open airspace in the country.

The company obtained a trial flight permit from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan (MLIT) with a local partner.

One of the trial flights was completed at the ‘Leading the Revolution of Urban Air Mobility’ event, which was organised together with the Okayama Kurashiki Mizushima Aero & Space Industry Cluster Study Group (MASC) at Kasaoka Air Station in Okayama Prefecture.

Video credit: EHang.

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