Joby, USAF “Complete Electric Aircraft Maintenance Training”

Joby Avi­a­tion has announced this week it has com­plet­ed a train­ing pro­gram with the U.S. Air Force (USAF) cov­er­ing the main­te­nance of the company’s elec­tric air taxi, reports a press release.

The release explains, “The main­te­nance train­ing pro­gram, which trained sev­er­al U.S. Air Force ser­vice mem­bers includ­ing a flight test pilot and air­craft main­tain­ers, on the specifics of inspect­ing and main­tain­ing Joby’s elec­tric air­craft, was com­plet­ed as part of the Company’s exist­ing con­tract with AFWERX Agili­ty Prime.”

It con­tin­ues, “The four-week pro­gram took place at Joby’s flight test and man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ties in Mari­na, Cal­i­for­nia, and was based on the Air­craft Main­te­nance Man­u­al devel­oped by Joby as part of the Company’s ongo­ing work towards air­craft type cer­ti­fi­ca­tion with the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA). The pro­gram includ­ed class­room instruc­tion as well hands-on com­ple­tion of inspec­tions and pre-flight checks on Joby’s pro­duc­tion pro­to­type air­craft.”

Bon­ny Simi, Pres­i­dent of Oper­a­tions at Joby, com­ment­ed, “We’re pleased to have suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed anoth­er engage­ment with the U.S. Air Force, pro­vid­ing the gov­ern­ment with a tech­ni­cal overview of elec­tric air­craft main­te­nance oper­a­tions while we received feed­back from expe­ri­enced ser­vice mem­bers to fur­ther hone our in-house main­te­nance train­ing pro­gram.”

In April 2023, Joby announced that four USAF pilots had com­plet­ed pilot train­ing and become the first Air Force per­son­nel to fly an eVTOL air­craft as sole remote pilot-in-com­mand through the full flight enve­lope, includ­ing tran­si­tion from ver­ti­cal to wing-borne flight.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.jobyaviation.com

www.afresearchlab.com

www.afwerx.com 

(Top image: Joby and the U.S. Air Force com­plet­ed a train­ing pro­gram in Mari­na, Cal­i­for­nia, focused on main­te­nance of the Joby air­craft. Pho­to: Joby Avi­a­tion)

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