According to the news on the evening of July 22 on the WeChat official account of "Yihang Intelligent", recently, the Civil Aviation Administration of China has officially accepted the application for an Air Operator Certificate (hereinafter referred to as "AOC" or "OC") submitted by Guangdong Yihang General Aviation Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Yihang Tonghang"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yihang Intelligent, which specializes in UAM operation services, and Hefei Heyi Aviation Co., Ltd., a joint venture operator in Hefei (hereinafter referred to as "Heyi Aviation"), respectively, to carry out the business license and operation qualification certification of unmanned manned aircraft for the two companies, and work with the applicant in the aspects of review process, review subjects, review framework, etc. Reach consensus. The Civil Aviation Administration of China has also recently established a professional review team to officially carry out subsequent related review work.
Yihang Intelligent introduces that as the world's first accepted unmanned manned electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL) OC certification project, the acceptance of this project application means that the world's first manned eVTOL operation standard system with epoch-making milestone significance is about to be born, and will lay a solid foundation for the commercial operation of Yihang Intelligent EH216-S.
In addition to Yihang Aviation and Heyi Aviation, Yihang Intelligent's partners in cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Taiyuan, and Wuxi are also preparing to actively promote OC approval applications and accelerate the construction of EH216-S low altitude economic commercial operation demonstration models in the local area.
Hu Huazhi, founder, chairman, and CEO of Yihang Intelligence, said, "We are working together with the Civil Aviation Administration of China to complete the construction of a new unmanned aerial vehicle operation system, which will once again achieve a breakthrough in the global new civil aviation industry from zero to one. The formal acceptance of the world's first unmanned manned aircraft OC certification project is of pioneering significance to the eVTOL industry. This is the final stage of urban air traffic entering the mass consumption stage. We look forward to the release of the world's first unmanned manned eVTOL commercial operation standard system and OC, making the low altitude economy accessible to the public