EPlane Company

EPlane Company We're developing India’s 1st flying electric taxi for up to 7x faster intra-city commute and cargo transport. Incubated at IIT Madras, Chennai since 2019.

When you zoom in close enough, an aircraft is just a thousand small decisions made real.What you see in these details is...
03/06/2026

When you zoom in close enough, an aircraft is just a thousand small decisions made real.

What you see in these details is the actual, tangible work that happened on the hangar floor. We shaped the structures, aligned the metal, and locked down the geometry of the airframe. It took a steady hand to get the smallest elements right, knowing those details would eventually carry the weight of the entire machine today.

The Crew That Built The e200X.

e200X PT-01 is coming.

He engineered the wings of the A380. He built the composite structures for the 777X.Now, he’s in the cleanrooms of Chenn...
30/05/2026

He engineered the wings of the A380. He built the composite structures for the 777X.

Now, he’s in the cleanrooms of Chennai, forging the exact geometry of the e200X.

Legacy aviation has precedent. But building an entirely new category of flight requires an entirely different obsession. We are writing the rules from scratch, millimeter by millimeter.

Meet the engineer leading our airframe team. Read his full journey from the drafting boards of legacy aerospace to the hangar floor.

Link in bio. 👇

26/05/2026

In the world of high-performance aviation, the things you don’t see are what matter most.

While the world waits for the final form of the aircraft, our engineers are deep in the architecture of the invisible. Every perfectly routed wire and every precisely placed sensor is a silent promise of reliability.

This level of mastery doesn’t happen by accident. It is the result of a team that has been with us on this journey for more than six years building these systems digitally, then proving them through countless missions on subscale platforms like ATVAs & e50. They bring a relentless focus because they know that in the air, there is no such thing as a small detail.

Over the coming weeks, as we prepare the machine to leave the hangar, you are going to hear directly from the people making it a reality: The Crew That Built The e200X.

e200X PT-01 is coming. 🚀

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Renders don’t fly. Hardware does.The process starts with the weave. Layers of aerospace-grade carbon fiber, laid down an...
15/05/2026

Renders don’t fly. Hardware does.

The process starts with the weave. Layers of aerospace-grade carbon fiber, laid down and cured under exact heat and pressure. This is the physical reality of manufacturing; converting raw composite into a high-tolerance aerodynamic shell.

This fuselage is the structural core of the e200X. It is engineered to meet a strict set of requirements: light enough for highly efficient vertical lift, yet strong enough to carry the weight of a broken transit system.

On the assembly line, the day-to-day work is a quiet war against the margin of error. Testing tensile strength. Verifying tolerances. Aligning the physical hardware with the math.

Every millimeter of this machine is a calculated departure from the way things have always been done.

e200X-PT01 is on the way.

What does it actually take to build a new category of aviation? 🧠✈️Most people look at the e200X and see the hardware th...
08/04/2026

What does it actually take to build a new category of aviation? 🧠✈️

Most people look at the e200X and see the hardware the carbon fiber, the rotors, the sheer scale of the airframe. But the real friction isn’t in the hardware; it’s in the intelligence. It’s in the “brain” that has to make a thousand split-second decisions in an environment where “maybe” isn’t an option.

After a few months of quiet, intense focus on our first full-scale prototype, the series is officially back. We’re starting with the engineer teaching the e200X how to see: Kabilan N.

Kabilan’s path to the hangar wasn’t linear. He traded a guaranteed corporate path for a seat at the table where the manual for Indian electric aviation is being written in real-time. He isn’t just “coding” he is solving multi-dimensional physics problems.

How do you train an aircraft to track an obstacle 2km away while traveling at high speeds? How do you do that within the brutal weight constraints of an eVTOL, where every gram of computing power carries a cost?

Kabilan is architecting this situational awareness from scratch, tearing down the “black box” of AI to build a system that is transparent, accountable, and above all, safe. He’s moving us from theory to telemetry, one neuron at a time.

The subscale era is behind us. The “safe” path is for someone else.

Tap the link in our bio to read the full story of the man building the intelligence behind the e200X. 🚀

6 Days. 1 Mission. 0 Boundaries. ✈️☁️Inside the AWS Pavilion at Bharat Mandapam, the conversation wasn't just about airc...
18/03/2026

6 Days. 1 Mission. 0 Boundaries. ✈️☁️

Inside the AWS Pavilion at Bharat Mandapam, the conversation wasn't just about aircraft it was about scale. While we build the wings in the hangar, AWS provides the high-velocity backbone that brings them to life.

At The ePlane Company, we’re leveraging the cloud for two critical missions:

Engineering Velocity: Turning weeks of aerodynamic simulations into just hours with High-Performance Computing.

Fleet Intelligence: Building a real-time, cloud-native pipeline for predictive maintenance.

From discussing the "Golden Hour" in emergency care to the future of urban logistics, the energy at the India AI Impact Summit was a reminder: we aren’t just building an aircraft. We are building a necessity.

The mission is in motion. We’re defying gravity very soon. 🇮🇳

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Building the Future at Scale: India’s Largest eVTOL Prototyping Hub 🇮🇳✈️The transition from a validated subscale model t...
27/02/2026

Building the Future at Scale: India’s Largest eVTOL Prototyping Hub 🇮🇳✈️

The transition from a validated subscale model to a full-scale aircraft is the most critical milestone in our journey. To meet this challenge, we have moved from our initial 10,000 sq. ft. prototyping center into a state-of-the-art 60,000 sq. ft. integrated facility at the IIT Madras Discovery Campus.

We were honoured to have Professor V. Kamakoti, Padma Shri recipient and Director of IIT Madras, inaugurate this space. His vision for the Discovery Campus as a cradle for indigenous high-tech hardware has been the perfect catalyst for our growth within this ecosystem.

Prof. Satya Chakravarthy’s vision for the e200X has always been about solving for the density of Indian cities. This 6x increase in our facility size marks a massive turning point it allows us to transition from subscale demonstrators to a scale where we can parallelly assemble multiple full-scale prototypes on the same shop floor.

The Minds and the Machine 🧠⚙️
While the facility provides the space, our engineers provide the momentum. This is our new nerve center:

1. Aerostructures: Fabricating the e200X wing spars and fuselage at final, flight-ready dimensions.

2. Integrated Testing: Our Ground Test Vehicle (GTV) facility is now operational, validating every subsystem in a controlled, industrial environment.

3. Sovereign Engineering: Working with the DGCA to ensure global safety standards for our 7x faster air ambulance missions.

The subscale era is behind us. The full-scale e200X is taking shape on our hangar floor right now.

The mission is scaling. Defying gravity very soon. 🚀

The Intelligence Behind the AirframeSix days of conversations, and one consistent theme: the future of flight is as much...
25/02/2026

The Intelligence Behind the Airframe

Six days of conversations, and one consistent theme: the future of flight is as much about computing as it is about aerodynamics.

Our time at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 was an incredible deep dive into the “digital reality” we are building. While our aircraft is taking shape in the hangar, it is living a thousand lives in the NVIDIA Omniverse.

As the first electric aviation OEM in the subcontinent to leverage this platform, we aren’t just using it for “simulation”. We are creating a Digital Twin of the e200X to validate complex flight physics, autonomy algorithms, and sensor fusion before the physical aircraft ever leaves the ground.

Beyond the Virtual Edge Computing in the Sky
The collaboration extends directly into the cockpit. The e200X will utilize the NVIDIA IGX platform as our on-board computing powerhouse. This allows us to integrate a multitude of sensors from cameras to radars deploying advanced algorithms for real-time decision-making and enhanced situational awareness for our pilots.

A huge thank you to the team at NVIDIA for hosting us at the Innovation Pavilion. These six days were filled with insightful discussions with industry leaders, policymakers, and fellow innovators who share our vision for a sovereign, tech-led aerospace ecosystem in India.

We don’t just fly; we compute.

Defying gravity very soon.

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