Archer Midnight is Issued “FAA Final Airworthiness Criteria, Significant Step Towards Type Certification”

Archer Avi­a­tion announced this week, the FAA “has issued for pub­lic inspec­tion the final air­wor­thi­ness cri­te­ria for Archer’s Mid­night air­craft,” reports a press release.  This mile­stone pro­vides a firm path for Archer to achieve Type Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. The com­pa­ny is one of only two eVTOL com­pa­nies to achieve this with the FAA.

The cri­te­ria “unlocks the abil­i­ty for Archer to work with the FAA to obtain the remain­ing final approvals on its cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and test plans,” says the release. “This is an impor­tant step as the com­pa­ny ramps up its ‘for cred­it’ tri­als and pre­pares to begin its pilot­ed flight test­ing lat­er this year.”

Bil­ly Nolen, Archer Chief Reg­u­la­to­ry Affairs Offi­cer, com­ment­ed, “Mid­night is anoth­er step clos­er to tak­ing pas­sen­gers into the U.S sky. This final air­wor­thi­ness cri­te­ria for Mid­night is an impor­tant step on our jour­ney to make elec­tric fly­ing taxis an every­day real­i­ty.“

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Eric Wright, Archer Head of Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, added, “This mile­stone adds sig­nif­i­cant momen­tum to Midnight’s cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gram as we fur­ther ramp up our ‘for cred­it’ test­ing efforts with the FAA.”

The release con­tin­ues “Archer has been putting Midnight’s sys­tems and com­po­nents through rig­or­ous test­ing as part of its safe­ty of flight readi­ness for our upcom­ing pilot­ed flight tests lat­er this year and in sup­port of its ongo­ing FAA cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gram.”

And goes on, “Addi­tion­al­ly, the com­pa­ny has made sig­nif­i­cant progress on the con­struc­tion of its first three pilot­ed con­form­ing Mid­night air­craft. The first air­craft in this ini­tial fleet will begin pilot­ed flight test­ing lat­er this year, and sub­se­quent­ly be used in ‘for cred­it’ flight test­ing with the FAA as the com­pa­ny pro­gress­es towards com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion.”

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