Focusing on four core types of low-altitude aircraft—Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft

helicopters

and light small fixed-wing aircraft—the study analyzes their current development status and phased characteristics. From the perspectives of technological autonomy

airworthiness certification

market application

and ecosystem collaboration

it proposes a tiered

progressive high-quality development pathway. This aims to provide a reference for building a safe

efficient

integrated

and open low-altitude equipment industrial system. The research indicates that in the short term

the low-altitude equipment industry needs to strengthen technological foundations and expand closed-loop scenario applications

while in the medium-to-long term

it should gradually achieve a systematic transition from cargo transport to passenger transport

and further to intelligent air-ground integrated coordination.