China's 19-seat CE-25A electric passenger plane has made its first manned flight - with two pilots and an engineer on board. The plane spent 16 minutes and 38 seconds in the air and traveled 60.4 km. All systems were working normally. Before that, the passenger plane was tested in an unmanned state for a year. This is a short-range 10-engine aircraft. Cruising speed - 300 km/h, cruising altitude - 2,400 m, range - up to 400 km. Traction batteries are from CATL.

China's 19-seat CE-25A electric passenger plane has made its first manned flight - with two pilots and an engineer on board. The plane spent 16 minutes and 38 seconds in the air and traveled 60.4 km. All systems were working normally. Before that, the passenger plane was tested in an unmanned state for a year. This is a short-range 10-engine aircraft. Cruising speed - 300 km/h, cruising altitude - 2,400 m, range - up to 400 km. Traction batteries are from CATL.