China flies the first electric passenger plane in Shandong
China's first domestically developed 10-metric-ton-class electric commercial aircraft, the CE-25A, completed its first piloted test flight in Binzhou, Shandong province
Black News 
While the rest of the world is still debating Electric Vehicles versus Gas cars, China has just plugged in a 10-tonne passenger plane and took off.
Meet the COMAC’s CE-25A, which happens to be China’s first full-scale, all-electric commercial aircraft.
The bird is 100 percent electric powered, meaning zero jet fuel.
It boasts 19 seats plus a range of 400 kilometers’ range. That’s how many?
The aircraft features 10 ducted fans embedded inside the wings (not your usual propellers)
And what’s more? The Comac CE-25A is capable of both autonomous and piloted flights.
China’s first domestically developed 10-metric-ton-class electric commercial aircraft, the CE-25A, completed its first piloted test flight in Binzhou, Shandong province, on Saturday, the 14th of November 2026.
The maiden flight marked another milestone in the development of electric aircraft for short-haul commercial travel.
The aircraft, developed by Commercial Aircraft Corp of China, carried two pilots and a flight test engineer.
The test lasted 57 minutes and 46 seconds, including 16 minutes and 38 seconds in the air, during which the aircraft covered 60.4 kilometers.
The aircraft performed normally and all test results met expectations, the Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (COMAC) said in a statement.
The CE-25A is COMAC’s first electric commercial aircraft, designed to carry 19 passengers on commercial flights between cities.
It has a maximum takeoff weight of 10 metric tons, a cruising speed of 300 kilometers per hour, a cruising altitude of 2,400 meters, and a range of 400 kilometers.
The aircraft is powered by a distributed electric ducted-fan propulsion system mounted on its wings.
The inaugural November flight followed the aircraft’s first unmanned autonomous test flight previously undertaken on Feb 2. COMAC said the CE-25A completed 19 unmanned autonomous flight tests during its development.
The aircraft is being jointly developed by COMAC, Chinese battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology Company Limited, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and other domestic partners.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China has accepted the application for a type certificate for the CE-25A, according to COMAC.
The aircraft is being developed in accordance with China’s CCAR-25 airworthiness regulations for transport-category aircraft, which also apply to large commercial passenger aircraft.
The acceptance of the application marks a step in the aircraft’s certification process, which must be completed before it can enter commercial service
