EHang EH-216 operations could start in Spring 2025 in Hubei said An Sheng, head of EHang’s Hubei Region, speaking at the Hubei Low-altitude Economic Industry Innovation and Development Conference held on October 14 2024, according to the Sina news agency.
“Currently, the company’s cultural tourism scene is being tested in the East Lake Scenic Area, and once the commercial operation license is officially approved, commercial flights can be normalized,”said the company’s representative .
The infrastructure to support large scale and passenger and cargo low-altitude operations is already in place, according to speakers at the event.
“Hubei is one of the three pilot provinces for aviation emergency rescue in the country,” says the report. “It has AG600 large aircraft, which are widely used in medical assistance, agricultural and forestry plant protection, urban governance and other fields. In the provincial capital of Wuhan, the 321 pattern of low-altitude economic infrastructure has been basically formed, with three general airports such as Hannan, Puren Hospital, and Yaxin General Hospital, two low-altitude economic industrial parks such as China Optics Valley Low-altitude Economic Industrial Park and China Auto Valley Low-altitude Economic Industrial Park, and one innovation base such as the World Drone Conference·Central China Low-altitude Economy and Drone Innovation Base. In the East Lake High-tech Zone, a full coverage network of 518 square kilometers is formed by 186 urban governance inspection drones and 128 sets of automatic machine nests, successfully creating the country’s first low-altitude shared drone application demonstration zone.”
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