Advanced air mobility company AutoFlight has delivered its first Prosperity eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft to a customer in Japan, marking the world’s inaugural delivery of a civilian ton-class eVTOL craft.
“The official delivery of the first prosperity to a customer signifies a new chapter for AutoFlight as we begin to ship our innovative electric aircraft to global markets,” explained Tian Yu, founder and co-chairman of AutoFlight. The as-yet-unidentified customer is currently developing plans for demonstration flights at the 2025 Osaka World Expo, as well as a wider rollout across Japan.
In February, the manufacturer of the autonomous craft performed the world’s first inter-city electric air taxi demonstration flight between the southern Chinese cities of Shenzhen and Zhuhai, which also marked the first ever public eVTOL flight on a cross-sea and inter-city route. AutoFlight adds that the route is ‘part of the future air traffic scenario planned by the regional government as it develops its ‘low-altitude-economy’ strategy that will see the opening of thousands of vertiports and hundreds of eVTOL routes across the Greater Bay Area in southern China’.
AutoFlight delivers first Prosperity eVTOL to Japanese customer
