Certification
CAAC type certificate Oct 2023; production certificate Apr 2024; air operator certificates Mar 2025; on CAAC first compliance roster (Jul 2026)
Launch operators and orders: EHang General Aviation (Guangzhou) and Heyi Aviation (Hefei); 3,000+ trial flights since Mar 2025; ticketed service awaiting CAAC clearance (Hefei plan: four aircraft, 14 flights a day); 215 EH216 units delivered in 2025.
Battery: Lithium-ion; solid-state cell flight test (2025). Charging: not published.
Program record
Program record
| Class | eVTOL passenger |
| Country | China |
| Powertrain | battery-electric |
| Seats or payload | 2 passengers, no pilot |
| Range (km, published target) | 35 |
| Battery | Lithium-ion; solid-state cell flight test (2025) |
| Autonomy | autonomous (pilotless, remote supervision) |
| Certification | CAAC type certificate Oct 2023; production certificate Apr 2024; air operator certificates Mar 2025; on CAAC first compliance roster (Jul 2026) |
| Status | active |
| Launch operators and orders | EHang General Aviation (Guangzhou) and Heyi Aviation (Hefei); 3,000+ trial flights since Mar 2025; ticketed service awaiting CAAC clearance (Hefei plan: four aircraft, 14 flights a day); 215 EH216 units delivered in 2025 |
| Manufacturing | Yunfu, Guangdong |
| Parent or backers | NASDAQ EH |
| Record updated | 2026-10 |
Official site: ehang.com
In context
Where it fits
Listed in the eVTOL Directory. Programs are ranked on battery, charging, autonomy, certification stage and launch operators - the factors that decide whether an aircraft enters commercial service.
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|---|---|
| AE200-100 (Aerofugia) | active |
| Midnight (Archer Aviation) | active |
| Land Aircraft Carrier (Aridge (XPeng)) | active |
| Prosperity (V2000EM) (AutoFlight) | active |
| ALIA A250 (BETA Technologies) | active |
| VT35 (EHang) | active |
| e200x (ePlane Company) | active |
| Eve eVTOL (Eve Air Mobility) | active |
Sources
Sources and scope
- Scope
- EH216-S (EHang)
- Sources
- ElectronsX aviation dataset; company filings and regulator records
- Updated
- 2026-10