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Airbus
CityAirbus NextGen
Eight props, fixed wing, V-tail
CityAirbus NextGen is Airbus's all-electric, four-seat lift-plus-cruise eVTOL prototype. It has eight electric propellers, a fixed wing and a V-tail, a wingspan of about 12 m and a two-tonne weight class. Airbus designed it for an 80 km operational range at 120 km/h cruise. The prototype first flew in November 2024 at Donauwörth and flew weekly tests, including transitions, through 2025. In January 2025 Airbus said it would pause the programme once that campaign was complete, because batteries can't yet support the four-passenger, 80–100 km mission. No service entry is planned. Not type-certified; not for sale.
- Range
- 80 km (Airbus design figure)
(varies with speed, reserves, and how the pilot flies the mission).
- Payload
- Not published
- Cruise
- 120 km/h (Airbus design figure)
(chosen by the pilot, and traded against range and endurance).
- Top speed
- Not published
- Flight time
- Not published
(varies with the speed the pilot selects and the reserves kept for the mission).
- Price
- Not published
- MTOW
- Two-tonne class (Airbus)
- Seats
- 4
- Battery / fuel
- All-electric (capacity not published)
- Size
- About 12 m wingspan (Airbus)
- First flight
- November 2024 (Donauwörth, Germany)
- Entry into service
- None planned: Airbus paused the programme (announced Jan 2025)
Full figures
- Seats
- 4
- Range
- 80 km operational (Airbus design figure)
- Cruise
- 120 km/h (Airbus design figure)
- Wingspan
- about 12 m
- Weight class
- two-tonne
- Layout
- lift + cruise, 8 electric propellers, fixed wing, V-tail
- Flight test
- first flight Nov 2024 at Donauwörth; weekly test flights including transitions through 2025
- Status
- Airbus paused the programme after the 2025 flight-test campaign, citing insufficient battery maturity for the 4-passenger, 80–100 km mission
For
- Airbus-published design figures: 80 km, 120 km/h, 4 seats
- Full-scale prototype flew, including transitions
Against
- Programme paused; no service entry planned
- Not for private sale; no type certificate