Archer Receives Part 135 Air Carrier and Operator Certification From FAA 

Archer Avi­a­tion announced today it has received its Part 135 Air Car­ri­er & Oper­a­tor Cer­tifi­cate from the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA), reports a press release.

This cer­tifi­cate allows Archer to refine its sys­tems and pro­ce­dures in advance of launch­ing Mid­night into com­mer­cial ser­vice for com­pa­nies like Unit­ed Air­lines, once it receives the Type Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. 

The release says, “Receiv­ing this Part 135 cer­tifi­cate shows that Archer has devel­oped and demon­strat­ed to the FAA its adher­ence to the nec­es­sary poli­cies and pro­ce­dures, to begin oper­at­ing air­craft com­mer­cial­ly in accor­dance with the strin­gent safe­ty and oper­a­tional stan­dards set forth by the FAA.”

It goes on, “Today’s suc­cess is anoth­er key step that demon­strates Archer’s work with the FAA con­tin­ues to gain momen­tum and is now one of only two air taxi man­u­fac­tur­ers in the world to have announced receipt of a Part 135.”

Adam Gold­stein, co-Founder and CEO of Archer, com­ment­ed, “This mile­stone reflects our team’s ded­i­ca­tion to safe­ty and oper­a­tional excel­lence as we stand up one of the world’s first elec­tric air taxi ser­vices for com­mu­ni­ties across the U.S.”

In addi­tion, Archer has also received the Part 145 cer­tifi­cate from the FAA, allow­ing it to per­form spe­cialised air­craft repair ser­vices.

Archer receives its Part 145 Cer­tifi­cate from the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion

The com­pa­ny has now achieved the two key oper­a­tional cer­tifi­cates required from the FAA to be in a posi­tion towards air taxi oper­a­tions when Mid­night receives the all-impor­tant Type Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. The FAA also recent­ly issued the final air­wor­thi­ness cri­te­ria for the air­craft. 

The com­ple­tion of the Part 135 process involved five rig­or­ous stages, entail­ing the sub­mis­sion of exten­sive doc­u­men­ta­tion of oper­a­tional man­u­als and pro­ce­dures, as well as Archer’s pilots need­ing to demon­strate pro­fi­cien­cy with those areas under FAA obser­va­tion.

Mike Lesk­i­nen, Unit­ed Air­lines CFO, remarked, ”The pace of progress and inno­va­tion that Archer has achieved over the last few years is noth­ing short of impres­sive and today marks anoth­er crit­i­cal mile­stone in their jour­ney to bring safe, sus­tain­able and low noise air taxi ser­vices to mar­ket.” He con­tin­ued, “Togeth­er, we look for­ward to shap­ing the future of air trans­porta­tion and deliv­er­ing unpar­al­leled fly­ing expe­ri­ences to Unit­ed pas­sen­gers.”

The FAA pre­sent­ing Archer’s Air­line Team and rep­re­sen­ta­tives from Unit­ed with Archer’s Part 135 Cer­tifi­cate. (Pho­to: Busi­ness Wire)

Tom Ander­son, Archer Air’s COO, added, “Over my career, I’ve helped lead the build­out of Jet­Blue and Breeze Air­ways and now that Archer has its Part 135 and 145 cer­tifi­cates from the FAA, I’m thrilled for our team to soon com­mence oper­a­tions on this inno­v­a­tive new air taxi ser­vice.”

For more infor­ma­tion

www.archer.com

https://www.united.com/en/gb

(Top image: Archer Avi­a­tion)

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