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FAA Accepts SkyDrive’s “Type Certification Application” for U.S

Japan-based eVTOL com­pa­ny, Sky­Drive, announced this week it has sub­mit­ted a Type Cer­tifi­cate appli­ca­tion to the U.S Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA) via Japan’s Civ­il Avi­a­tion Bureau (JCAB), reports a press release. The appli­ca­tion was accept­ed on April 29th.

To pre­pare for Sky­Drive’s entry into the U.S mar­ket for com­mer­cial oper­a­tions with its SD-05 eVTOL air­craft, the com­pa­ny estab­lished a local sub­sidiary last year. The release states, “Sky­Drive is now active­ly col­lab­o­rat­ing with local cus­tomers to devel­op prac­ti­cal use cas­es and tai­lor its offer­ings to meet the unique needs of the Amer­i­can mar­ket.”

The com­pa­ny’s goal is to obtain FAA Type Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion (TC), build­ing upon the antic­i­pat­ed JCAB TC in 2026 or lat­er.

Tomo­hi­ro Fukuza­wa, CEO of Sky­Drive, com­ment­ed, “Our team has been work­ing on both air­craft devel­op­ment and type cer­ti­fi­ca­tion activ­i­ties in par­al­lel. We are very grate­ful to the Japan Civ­il Avi­a­tion Bureau for sup­port­ing our appli­ca­tion and look­ing for­ward to a suc­cess­ful FAA type cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.” 

He added, “This col­lab­o­ra­tion allows us to advance our cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process­es in both Japan and the Unit­ed States simul­ta­ne­ous­ly.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://en.skydrive2020.com

(Top image: From left to right, Nobuo Kishi, CTO, Tomo­hi­ro Fukuza­wa, CEO, and Arnaud Cov­ille, Chief Devel­op­ment Offi­cer of Sky­Drive)

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