电动飞机是以电动机驱动的航空器，电力来源来自燃料电池、太阳电池 、超大电容(双电层电容器)、无线能量传输或电池。 现存的电动飞机有载人的，也有无人的。

• 西元1883年，Gaston Tissandier最先使用了电动机来推进飞船。
• 西元1957年，电动机被用来驱动模型固定翼飞机。

An electric aircraft is an aircraft that runs on electric motors rather than internal combustion engines, with electricity coming from fuel cells, solar cells, ultracapacitors, power beaming, or batteries.

Currently flying manned electric aircraft are mostly experimental demonstrators, though many small unmanned aerial vehicles are powered by batteries. Electrically powered model aircraft have been flown since the 1970s, with one report in 1957. The first man-carrying electrically powered flights were made in 1973. In 2015, a manned, solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse, began a planned 5-month circumnavigation of the Earth.