New Delhi, March 5 -- India-based aerospace startup The ePlane Company said its electric air taxi prototype is designed with an 8 metre by 10 metre footprint, which it describes as one of the most compact designs for urban air mobility aircraft. The company says the design is intended to help facilitate operations in densely populated cities where space constraints usually limit the use of larger aircrafts.

The startup plans to initially deploy its aircraft for air ambulance services, to reduce emergency medical transport time in certain cases. According to the company, this service can shorten emergency transport durations by several times compared with ground travel in congested urban spaces.

These plans come as the startup inaugurate...