AutoFlight delivers first Prosperity eVTOL to Japanese customer

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’.