XPeng Aeroht Completes Overseas Maiden Flight in Dubai, Signs Bulk Order for 600 Flying Cars with Four Middle Eastern Nations
XPeng Aeroht Completes Overseas Maiden Flight in Dubai, Signs Bulk Order for 600 Flying Cars with Four Middle Eastern Nations
Author: Backhaus International Low-Altitude Economy Cooperation NetworkIn October 2025, XPeng Aeroht’s split “Land Carrier” flying car obtained special flight test certification from the UAE Civil Aviation Authority and conducted a public manned maiden overseas flight in Dubai. Members of the Dubai royal family and China’s Consul General in Dubai witnessed both the flight demonstration and procurement signing ceremony. On-site, XPeng Aeroht signed framework procurement agreements with industrial conglomerates from the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Oman for a combined 600 units of split flying cars, scheduled for phased delivery starting in 2027 to serve urban commuting, high-end cultural tourism and coastal rescue scenarios across the four Gulf nations. Integrating ground driving and vertical takeoff-and-landing capabilities, the split flying car eliminates reliance on dedicated vertiports, capable of taking off and landing atop urban parking lots and building rooftops, perfectly matching the dense urban construction landscape of the Middle East. The cooperation encompasses localized industrial chain layout: XPeng Aeroht will build a Middle Eastern R&D adaptation center in Dubai to optimize battery protection and fuselage dustproof systems for high-temperature and sandstorm climates prevalent across the region. A unified cross-border flight scheduling platform will also be constructed to streamline filing procedures for compliant cross-jurisdictional flights of flying cars among the four Gulf states. Civil aviation regulators from all four nations jointly held seminars with Chinese counterparts to explore simplified dual approval mechanisms for flying cars to operate on roads and airspace. All Middle Eastern nations are vigorously advancing future transportation transformation, and Dubai’s 2030 Air Mobility Master Plan formally incorporates flying cars into the urban public transit system with leading global policy support. The Backhaus International Low-Altitude Economy Cooperation Network analyzes this cross-border cooperation breaks the traditional boundary of eVTOL-focused aerial mobility, expanding a differentiated international market track for land-air integrated low-altitude equipment. Leveraging Dubai’s global demonstration effect, it exports land-air coordinated low-altitude transportation solutions worldwide, carving out a distinct cross-border cooperation path for domestic low-altitude enterprises and driving the low-altitude economy’s evolution from standalone aerial vehicles toward an integrated three-dimensional urban transportation system.
