[1] The aircraft was first shown at the Zhuhai China Airshow, in November 2012 and in 2015 at the AERO Friedrichshafen show in Germany.
[1] The result of a three-year development process started in June 2012, the RX1E is an electric powered, two-seat side-by-side configuration, carbon fibre composite construction aircraft with a T-tail and tricycle landing gear and is one of the first electric airplanes in production.
As of September 2016 it does not appear on the US Federal Aviation Administration list of approved LSAs and, in fact, the category excludes electric-powered aircraft and requires a single reciprocating engine.
The launch customer was the Liaoning Ruixiang General Aviation Co., which will employ the aircraft in the flight training role.
[6] An improved version, the RX1E-A, was first flown in November 2017 and features a two-hour endurance and a new ballistic parachute design.