Airbus launches a new generation of CityAirbus aircraft

[According to the announcement on the Airbus website on September 21, 2021] As the emerging urban air transportation (UAM) market begins to stabilize, Airbus announced a new CityAirbus plan.

CityAirbus benefits from Airbus' years of dedicated research, innovation, two electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) demonstrators, noise reduction technology developed in its product portfolio, and decades of aircraft certification experience. The demonstrator of Vahana and CityAirbus has jointly conducted 242 flights and ground tests, and has flown approximately 1,000 kilometers in total. In addition, Airbus also implemented extensive scale-down flight and wind tunnel tests, and made use of its calculation and modeling capabilities. CityAirbus is currently in the detailed design stage, and the first flight of the prototype is planned for 2023.