Chinese regulators have approved AutoFlight’s application for a Type Certificate for its Prosperity eVTOL aircraft.
The 5-seater Prosperity is a five-seat lift + cruise eVTOL aircraft with a range of 250km (155 miles) and a maximum speed of 200km/h (155mph). The aircraft uses eight propellers mounted on booms that extend from its wings and two pusher propellers.
Autoflight is also developing a cargo variant of Prosperity called CarryAll, which has a payload capacity of 400kg and a firefighting version. The company said it has more than 900 pre-orders across all three of its aircraft models.
The CarryAll was certified by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) in March.
In February, Prosperity also made the world’s first cross-sea and intercity eVTOL flight from Shenzhen to Zhuhai in China. The 50km (31 miles) flight across the Pearl River Delta was to demonstrate the potential of a plan that could see thousands of vertiports open and hundreds of eVTOLs operating in the Greater Bay Area of southern China.
