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Joby Receives “Part 145 Maintenance Certificate from FAA”

Joby Avi­a­tion are feel­ing pret­ty good after receiv­ing the all-impor­tant Part 145 Repair Sta­tion Cer­tifi­cate from the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA) this week, reports a press release. The com­pa­ny believes they are “the first eVTOL devel­op­er” to receive this par­tic­u­lar cer­ti­fi­ca­tion from the FAA.

This allows the com­pa­ny to per­form select main­te­nance activ­i­ties includ­ing main­te­nance repair oper­a­tions (MRO) and over­haul on its eVTOL air­craft fleet, mark­ing anoth­er key step on the path to com­mer­cial­is­ing Joby’s elec­tric air taxi ser­vice.

Bon­ny Simi, Joby Pres­i­dent of Oper­a­tions, remarked, “This approval marks anoth­er foun­da­tion­al piece of Joby’s ver­ti­cal­ly-inte­grat­ed strat­e­gy, includ­ing air­craft devel­op­ment, man­u­fac­tur­ing, charg­ing sys­tems, com­mer­cial flight oper­a­tions, and now MRO ser­vices, as we pre­pare to bring our rev­o­lu­tion­ary eVTOL air­craft to mar­ket.”

She con­tin­ued, “Receiv­ing the Part 145 cer­tifi­cate from the FAA is an impor­tant step towards devel­op­ing the need­ed main­te­nance, repair and over­haul ser­vices to sup­port Joby’s com­mer­cial flight oper­a­tions, as well as estab­lish­ing career pipelines for peo­ple who want to become eVTOL air­craft tech­ni­cians.”

Under this par­tic­u­lar cer­tifi­cate, Joby is to begin per­form­ing select air­frame, radio and instru­ment repairs on tra­di­tion­al air­craft, with plans to expand its MRO ser­vices in the com­ing months and years. The cer­tifi­cate also allows Joby to pro­vide paid on-the-job train­ing to aspir­ing air­craft tech­ni­cians.

Bon­ny Simi

Back in 2022, Joby part­nered with Avi­a­tion High School in Queens, New York, to devel­op local tal­ent and inte­grate course mate­ri­als on elec­tric propul­sion sys­tems for stu­dents, prepar­ing grad­u­ates for career oppor­tu­ni­ties in the next gen­er­a­tion of qui­et, emis­sions-free flight.

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www.jobyaviation.com

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