A Chinese drone company has just been granted permission to test its on-demand, passenger-carrying autonomous aerial vehicle in Nevada, making it the first such drone to be tested anywhere in the United States.

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, state authorities from the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems granted permission Monday for EHang to fly its EHang 184 in the Silver State. EHang already makes a consumer model, the "Ghost Drone."

EHang debuted its drone at CES in Las Vegas earlier this year.

As TechCrunch reported at the time, a press kit declared that the drone is "about four-and-a-half feet tall, weighs 440 pounds, and will be able to carry a single passenger for 23 minutes at a speed of 60 MPH. The 184 also has gull-wing doors and arms that fold up."

Neither the Nevada authorities nor EHang immediately responded to Ars’ request for comment.

"We will help them submit necessary test results and reports to the FAA and all that kind of stuff," Mark Barker, the institute’s director, told the newspaper. "It’s a big deal for EHang and it’s a big deal for NIAS and the state of Nevada because we will be helping them to test and validate their system."

The Review-Journal also noted that EHang hopes to begin tests later this year.