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slug: "10-ce-25a-0310eac5"
title: "COMAC's 10-ton-class electric commercial aircraft CE-25A completes successful crewed maiden flight."
headline: "COMAC's 10-ton-class electric commercial aircraft CE-25A completes successful crewed maiden flight."
canonical: "https://silinex.xyz/wire/10-ce-25a-0310eac5"
date_published: "2026-11-14T04:08:13.000+00:00"
date_modified: "2026-11-14T04:20:42.128+00:00"
author: "IT之家"
publisher: "Silicon Nexus"
category: "frontier"
summary: "Compiled from public reports including IT之家: According to a report today by CCTV News, the 10-tonne-class electric commercial aircraft CE-25A developed by COMAC completed its first manned intelligent flight in Binzhou…"
key_facts:
  - "IT Home, November 14 — According to a CCTV News report today, the 10-tonne-class electric commercial aircraft CE-25A, developed by COMAC, completed its first manned intelligent flight in Binzhou, Shandong."
  - "On board that day were 2 pilots and 1 flight test engineer. During the flight, the aircraft remained in normal condition, and all indicators met expectations."
  - "This marks another milestone in the aircraft's development process, following its successful unmanned intelligent maiden flight on February 2, 2026."
  - "The CE-25A is COMAC's first electric commercial aircraft, positioned for intercity commercial flights. It can carry 19 passengers, has a maximum takeoff weight of 10 tonnes, a cruising speed of 300 km/h, a cruising altitude of 2,400 meters, and a range of 400 kilometers."
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# COMAC's 10-ton-class electric commercial aircraft CE-25A completes successful crewed maiden flight.

## Silicon TL;DR

1. IT Home, November 14 — According to a CCTV News report today, the 10-tonne-class electric commercial aircraft CE-25A, developed by COMAC, completed its first manned intelligent flight in Binzhou, Shandong.
2. On board that day were 2 pilots and 1 flight test engineer. During the flight, the aircraft remained in normal condition, and all indicators met expectations.
3. This marks another milestone in the aircraft's development process, following its successful unmanned intelligent maiden flight on February 2, 2026.
4. The CE-25A is COMAC's first electric commercial aircraft, positioned for intercity commercial flights. It can carry 19 passengers, has a maximum takeoff weight of 10 tonnes, a cruising speed of 300 km/h, a cruising altitude of 2,400 meters, and a range of 400 kilometers.

## Wire brief

Compiled from public reports including IT之家: According to a report today by CCTV News, the 10-tonne-class electric commercial aircraft CE-25A developed by COMAC completed its first manned intelligent flight in Binzhou, Shandong.

In terms of the sequence of events, the aircraft carried two pilots and one flight-test engineer on the day, and the aircraft remained in normal condition throughout the flight, with all parameters meeting expectations. This marks another milestone in the development process following the aircraft's unmanned intelligent maiden flight on February 2, 2026. The CE-25A is COMAC's first electric commercial aircraft, positioned for intercity commercial flight. It can carry 19 passengers, has a maximum takeoff weight of 10 tonnes, a cruise speed of 300 km/h, a cruise altitude of 2,400 meters, and a range of 400 kilometers.

Public information also notes: The core highlight of this flight lies in the combination of "manned piloting" and "intelligent flight." The previous 19 verification flights were all unmanned autonomous flights. Manned intelligent flight means that after the pilots enter the cockpit, the aircraft can still rely on autonomous systems to complete flight missions while the pilots retain in-the-loop monitoring and intervention capability. From an engineering verification perspective, this is closer than a purely unmanned maiden flight to the actual human-machine collaboration scenario of "pilot + intelligent system" in future commercial operations. In terms of powertrain architecture, the CE-25A adopts an over-wing distributed electric ducted propulsion system (a distributed electric ducted propulsion system distributes multiple lower-power electric ducted fans across the wings, replacing a small number of high-power engines and leveraging the divisibility of electric motor power to improve fault tolerance and aerodynamic efficiency).

Follow-up points to watch include: Public information shows that the CE-25A has five electric ducted fans on each of the left and right wings, 10 in total, integrated with the wings. This layout enables the aircraft to maintain controllable flight when some propulsion units fail, while also reducing the impact of a single point of failure on overall aircraft safety. The CE-25A was jointly developed by COMAC with CATL, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and others. Silicon News Wire has only rewritten the key points; details remain subject to the original text.

## Source & notice

This Silicon News Wire brief paraphrases public reporting from **IT之家** for carbon readers and silicon citation. **It is not a verbatim full-text reprint.**

Read the original: [COMAC's 10-ton-class electric commercial aircraft CE-25A completes successful crewed maiden flight.](https://www.ithome.com/1/027/075.htm)