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Tsehai (“Sun” in Amharic) is the first aircraft built in Ethiopia. It was designed and built in the spring of 1935 by the German pilot Ludwig Weber. The original name was AETHIOPIA I, but the aircraft was renamed by Emperor Haile Selassie after his daughter Princess Tsahai. It is also called the Aeroplane of the Negus.

Ludwig Weber came to Ethiopia in March 1932 with an order from the Junkers company to repair a Junkers W 33 C and became the Kaiser's personal pilot. He designed the aircraft as a monoplane, with a 115 hp, seven-cylinder Walter Venus engine and a black propeller. The fuselage consisted of a steel frame with a fabric cover, the wings were mostly made of wood and the windshield was made of plastic. It was painted in Ethiopia's traditional colors of green, yellow and red. A total of three aircraft in this series were planned, but only one could be completed.

The maiden flight took place in December 1935 and was carried out personally by Ludwig Weber. In total, this aircraft only logged thirty flying hours, as the Italian invasion forced Weber and his crew to leave the country in May 1936. The plane was brought to Italy by the Italians, where it was exhibited in the Aviation Museum of Caserta until 1941. It was then taken to the Italian Aviation Museum near Rome, where it has been exhibited ever since.

Because of its special historical significance, Ethiopia is reclaiming the Tsehai plane from Italy to display on the roof of Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa.