Joby Completes “Third Stage of FAA Certification Process” 

Joby Avi­a­tion announced this week it has become “the first devel­op­er of eVTOL air­craft to com­plete the third of five stages of the FAA type cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process,” reports a press release. 

Dur­ing the third stage process, the com­pa­ny sub­mit­ted cer­ti­fi­ca­tion plans that cov­er all of the aircraft’s struc­tur­al, mechan­i­cal, and elec­tri­cal sys­tems, as well as the company’s intend­ed cer­ti­fi­ca­tion approach to cyber­se­cu­ri­ty, human fac­tors and noise. 

“These plans,” says the release, “which detail the tests and analy­ses that Joby will use to cer­ti­fy every aspect of its air­craft for com­mer­cial use, have now all been reviewed and accept­ed by the FAA, lay­ing the ground­work for Joby to sub­mit test plans and begin for-cred­it test­ing across every area of the company’s air­craft pro­gram.” 

JoeBen Bevirt, Founder and CEO of Joby, remarked, “Joby con­tin­ues to lead the indus­try towards bring­ing eVTOLs to the com­mer­cial mar­ket. Our cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and engi­neer­ing teams are work­ing close­ly with the FAA and con­tin­ue to sup­port U.S lead­er­ship in this new area of avi­a­tion.” 

Joby is now “ful­ly focused” on the fourth stage of the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process, where the com­pa­ny is to com­plete tests and analy­sis for FAA cred­it also cov­er­ing every com­po­nent and sys­tem on the Joby air­craft, as well as the entire air­craft itself. 

JoeBen Bevirt

Didi­er Papadopou­los, Pres­i­dent of Air­craft OEM at Joby, com­ment­ed, “With all of the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion plans accept­ed by the FAA, we are now com­plete­ly focused on the exe­cu­tion phase of the process. We have a clear path to cer­ti­fy­ing every aspect of our air­craft and the team is full steam ahead on exe­cut­ing that path as we con­tin­ue to lead the indus­try to com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion.” 

In the fourth quar­ter of 2023, Joby com­plet­ed 30 for-cred­it tests cov­er­ing a num­ber of flight elec­tron­ics units as well as struc­tur­al mate­ri­als. The test­ing meth­ods and process­es val­i­dat­ed through these tests lay the foun­da­tion for the Company’s con­tin­ued expan­sion of FAA for-cred­it test­ing. 

Joby also recent­ly received its Part 145 Repair Sta­tion Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion from the FAA, allow­ing the Com­pa­ny to per­form select main­te­nance activ­i­ties on air­craft and mark­ing anoth­er key step on the path to com­mer­cial­is­ing Joby’s elec­tric air taxi ser­vice. 

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www.jobyaviation.com

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