China’s Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) completes the CE-25A’s first crewed flight, with the electric 19-seat airliner flying in Shandong province. Euronews reports the aircraft takes off and lands in Binzhou, covering roughly 60 kilometres.
Other outlets add more operational detail and performance context. Times of India describes the CE-25A as a 19-seat electric passenger plane that cruises at about 300 km/h and is designed for up to 400 km of range, using distributed electric propulsion technology. Pandaily specifies that the first flight carries two pilots and a flight test engineer, lasting 16 minutes and 38 seconds over a distance of 60.4 km.
Overall, the accounts broadly agree on the aircraft type (CE-25A), its 19-seat configuration, the location in Shandong, and that the mission is the first piloted test. Differences mainly reflect how much technical and performance information each outlet chooses to include.
