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Joby Announces Completion of Second Stage Certification Process, “First eVTOL Company to Achieve This”

U.S‑based Joby Avi­a­tion announced today, the com­ple­tion of its sec­ond stage of the FAA cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process, reports a press release. Joby is the first eVTOL com­pa­ny to achieve this. There are five steps in total. Joby pro­vid­ed a sum­ma­ry of these five cer­ti­fi­ca­tion stages in its Q2 2022 Share­hold­er Let­ter.

The news comes on the heels of a recent vis­it by FAA Act­ing Admin­is­tra­tor, Bil­ly Nolen, and mem­bers of his team to Joby’s man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ties in Mari­na, Cal­i­for­nia where they were able to wit­ness one of the sev­er­al test flights that Joby reg­u­lar­ly con­ducts on a dai­ly basis.

What does this most recent cer­ti­fi­ca­tion stage mean?

: With the com­ple­tion of the sec­ond stage, Joby has suc­cess­ful­ly iden­ti­fied the ways it will demon­strate it has met the reg­u­la­to­ry intent of the safe­ty rules called “Means of Com­pli­ance.”

: With 94 per­cent of the Means of Com­pli­ance now accept­ed by the FAA, Joby con­sid­ers the sec­ond stage essen­tial­ly com­plete. It is typ­i­cal for a small por­tion to remain open to allow for fur­ther col­lab­o­ra­tion on minor design changes and improve­ments that may occur lat­er in the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process.

: With the achieve­ment of this mile­stone, Joby will focus on clos­ing the remain­ing cer­ti­fi­ca­tion plans and com­plet­ing the test­ing required to cer­ti­fy its air­craft. 

: Achiev­ing this goal moves Joby one step clos­er to its tar­get of launch­ing a com­mer­cial pas­sen­ger ser­vice by 2025.  

Didi­er Papadopou­los, Head of Air­craft OEM at Joby, com­ment­ed, “Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion is an inte­gral part of every­thing that an aero­space com­pa­ny does and with the achieve­ment of this crit­i­cal mile­stone, we’re now able to con­fi­dent­ly focus our efforts on clos­ing the remain­ing cer­ti­fi­ca­tion plans and com­plet­ing the test­ing required to cer­ti­fy our air­craft.”

Didi­er Papadopou­los

Joby has already made sub­stan­tial progress in the third stage of the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process. The release states, “The four area-spe­cif­ic cer­ti­fi­ca­tion plans (ASCPs) were sub­mit­ted to the FAA as of last Novem­ber, while the company’s first equip­ment-lev­el qual­i­fi­ca­tion test plan also intro­duced. This enables for-cred­it qual­i­fi­ca­tion test­ing to pro­ceed.”

Progress also con­tin­ues in stage four (‘Test­ing and Analy­sis’) and stage five (‘Show and Ver­i­fy’)

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.jobyaviation.com/

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