Joby “Applies for Aircraft Certification in Australia”

Joby Avi­a­tion announced this week it has for­mal­ly applied for its eVTOL Air­craft to be cer­ti­fied for use in Aus­tralia, reports Busi­ness Wire. The appli­ca­tion to Australia’s Civ­il Avi­a­tion Safe­ty Author­i­ty (CASA) for the val­i­da­tion of an FAA (Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion) type cer­ti­fi­ca­tion builds on a bi-lat­er­al agree­ment between the U.S reg­u­la­tor and CASA and lays the ground­work for the intro­duc­tion of elec­tric air taxis in Aus­tralia.

Joby’s eVTOL is designed to car­ry a pilot and four pas­sen­gers at speeds of up to 200 mph, offer­ing high-speed mobil­i­ty, zero oper­at­ing emis­sions, and with a frac­tion of the noise pro­duced by heli­copters.

JoeBen Bevirt, Founder and CEO of Joby, enthused, “We’re incred­i­bly excit­ed about the poten­tial for air taxis to offer new and more sus­tain­able ways to trav­el around Australia’s glob­al cities.”

He con­tin­ued, “With com­mer­cial pow­ered-lift oper­a­tions already con­sid­ered in CASA’s reg­u­la­to­ry frame­works, we’re pleased to be work­ing with Aus­tralian author­i­ties using a reg­u­la­to­ry path to mar­ket that is active­ly being pur­sued by numer­ous coun­tries around the world.”

JoeBen Bevirt (Cred­it: Joby Avi­a­tion)

The report explains, “Type cer­ti­fi­ca­tion is a mul­ti-year process which sees a com­pa­ny under­take rig­or­ous test­ing and doc­u­men­ta­tion across each air­craft sys­tem to prove the air­craft meets safe­ty stan­dards and is ready for com­mer­cial oper­a­tions. 

“Joby was the first elec­tric air taxi devel­op­er to have its FAA cer­ti­fi­ca­tion basis pub­lished in the U.S. Fed­er­al Reg­is­ter, and was also the first com­pa­ny to com­plete the first, sec­ond and third of five stages of the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion type cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process required for com­mer­cial ser­vice.”

Joby has also applied to have its FAA type cer­tifi­cate, once received, val­i­dat­ed by the Japan Civ­il Avi­a­tion Bureau (JCAB) and the UK’s Civ­il Avi­a­tion Author­i­ty (CAA).

Aus­tralian ver­ti­port devel­op­er, Sky­portz, has wel­comed the news. Its Founder and CEO, Clem New­ton-Brown, com­ment­ed, “In Aus­tralia there is strong pol­i­cy sup­port for the devel­op­ment of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty from our safe­ty reg­u­la­tor, CASA, our Fed­er­al and State Gov­ern­ments. What we have been miss­ing is a seri­ous com­mit­ment from a lead­ing elec­tric air taxi oper­a­tor to enter our mar­ket via local cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. This announce­ment by Joby is very excit­ing for the emerg­ing local ecosys­tem.”

Sky­portz aims to break the nexus between avi­a­tion and air­ports and enable com­mer­cial and indus­tri­al prop­er­ty devel­op­ers to host ver­ti­ports. Over 400 prop­er­ty sites have expressed an inter­est in host­ing them in Aus­tralia.

Sky­portz Ver­ti­port Water­front Con­cept

New­ton-Brown con­tin­ued, “With this announce­ment today, we could see Joby air­craft com­mence oper­a­tions in Aus­tralia from our planned Sky­portz sites in the fore­see­able future.”

CASA recent­ly released verti­port guide­lines, sig­nalling a com­mit­ment to facil­i­tate Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty in Aus­tralia. These envis­age that new ver­ti­ports will exclude heli­copters to assist with devel­op­ing com­mu­ni­ty sup­port for Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.jobyaviation.com

https://skyportz.com

(Top image: Joby Avi­a­tion)

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