“Archer Receives FAA Certification To Launch Pilot Training Academy”

Archer Avi­a­tion announced this week, it has received FAA cer­ti­fi­ca­tion to launch a pilot train­ing acad­e­my, reports a press release. This cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, referred to as Part 141, is award­ed to a flight school by the FAA, sig­ni­fy­ing that it’s a for­mal­ly recog­nised and reg­u­lat­ed insti­tu­tion for pilot train­ing.

Archer can now train and qual­i­fy avi­a­tors as part of this new­ly launched acad­e­my, with plans to build a “pilot pipeline” in prepa­ra­tion for the company’s planned com­mer­cial air taxis ser­vices with its Mid­night Air­craft. 

The eVTOL com­pa­ny has now received a third cer­tifi­cate required by the FAA for it to launch air taxi oper­a­tions and is on course for its Type Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. It pre­vi­ous­ly received a Part 135 Air Car­ri­er & Oper­a­tor Cer­tifi­cate from the FAA in June of 2024 and pri­or to that, in Feb­ru­ary of 2024, its Part 145 cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. Part 142 is the fourth and final cer­tifi­cate Archer will be pur­su­ing, for which the appli­ca­tion has already start­ed.

Tom Ander­son, Archer COO, com­ment­ed, “We now have the  Part 141 cer­tifi­cate in hand. This is yet anoth­er step towards our com­mer­cial launch. I look for­ward to see­ing the results of this effort in the form of tal­ent­ed pilots who can one day be at the con­trols of our Mid­night air­craft.”

(Mid­night Air­craft — Cred­it: Archer Aviation/Business Wire)

The FAA grant­ed Archer its Part 141 cer­tifi­cate dur­ing a cer­e­mo­ny at its flight test facil­i­ty in Sali­nas, Cal­i­for­nia. Those present includ­ed Tom Ander­son; Tosha Perkins (Chief Peo­ple Offi­cer); Thom Hold­en (Man­ag­er of the FAA’s San Jose Flight Stan­dards Dis­trict Office); and David Pease, (an FAA Avi­a­tion Safe­ty Inspec­tor).

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(Top image: The cer­ti­fi­ca­tion award cer­e­mo­ny — Cred­it: Archer Aviation/Business Wire)

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