{"id":58328,"date":"2026-11-15T21:29:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T15:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=58328"},"modified":"2026-11-15T21:29:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T15:44:56","slug":"comacs-electric-aircraft-completes-first-piloted-test-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/comacs-electric-aircraft-completes-first-piloted-test-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"COMAC&#8217;s electric aircraft completes first piloted test flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>chinadaily<\/strong> :\u00a0China&#8217;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, marking another milestone in the development of electric aircraft for short-haul commercial travel.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft performed normally and all test results met expectations, COMAC said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The CE-25A is COMAC&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft is powered by a distributed electric ducted-fan propulsion system mounted on its wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>chinadaily :\u00a0China&#8217;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, marking 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58334,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58328\/revisions\/58334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}