The ePlane Company, an eVTOL maker incubated at IIT Madras, reports it has completed assembly of its full-scale eVTOL aircraft, the e200X, integrating the aircraft’s core subsystems into a single structure. “The completed prototype, designated PT-01, moves the e200X from design and simulation into the physical testing phase that precedes flight,” said the company in a press release. “The aircraft is designed as one airframe serving three markets: a passenger air taxi, an urban cargo carrier, and an air ambulance.
The e200X will now enter ground testing, in which the structure and onboard systems are subjected to aerodynamic and mechanical loads on specialised equipment at ePlane’s facility, followed by flight testing and the pursuit of Type Certification. The e200X has been designed and assembled at ePlane’s own facilities, with its major systems, the propellers, the airframe structure, the landing gear and the battery pack, developed in-house rather than imported as finished assemblies. In a category where many developers rely on a global supply chain, that vertical integration gives ePlane unusual control over performance, cost and iteration speed.
The company has reached this stage on roughly USD21 million raised to date, “a fraction of what many international eVTOL programmes have consumed,” said the company. ePlane will unveil the completed e200X publicly in the coming weeks and then begin a ground testing campaign, followed by flight testing of the full-scale aircraft, building on the subscale prototypes it has already flown. It will pursue Type Certification with India’s DGCA, the first regulator to accept an eVTOL into its certification process, and then seek international validations to open export markets.
“First operations will begin with early commercial applications and scale across the passenger, cargo and medical markets as certification milestones are met,” said ePlane. T”he programme has already drawn international recognition: ePlane, incubated at IIT Madras, is among the Indian deep-technology ventures showcased at Bharat Innovates 2026, inaugurated in France in June 2026, and was recently featured in NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote in Taipei.”
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