“Billy Nolen Joins ZeroAvia” 

Who says you can’t have two jobs in the eVTOL indus­try and car­ry out some moon­light­ing. For­mer FAA act­ing admin­is­tra­tor, who after leav­ing his role joined Archer Avi­a­tion in June 2023 as its Chief Safe­ty Offi­cer, has been appoint­ed as a Senior Strat­e­gy & Reg­u­la­to­ry Advi­sor for ZeroAvia, reports a press release. He will split his time between the two Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) com­pa­nies. Both are quite con­tent with Nolen’s lat­est stand­ing.

The release explains, “A vast­ly expe­ri­enced safe­ty expert, air­line exec­u­tive and pilot, he will work with ZeroAvia’s team to expe­dite the push towards cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of both its 600kW elec­tric propul­sion sys­tem and its full hydro­gen-elec­tric pow­er­trains.

Val Mif­takhov, Founder and CEO, ZeroAvia, com­ment­ed,  “Billy’s exper­tise on safe­ty and the reg­u­la­to­ry land­scape will be a big advan­tage for us as we seek to cer­ti­fy our first engine and enter into ser­vice. We’re excit­ed to lever­age his expe­ri­ence in this direc­tion.” 

Bil­ly Nolen, now the Senior Strat­e­gy & Reg­u­la­to­ry Advi­sor at ZeroAvia, added, “We are on the cusp of a shift towards alter­na­tive propul­sion sys­tems and new air­craft modal­i­ties that is going to be the most excit­ing time in avi­a­tion since the dawn­ing of the jet age. I could not be more thrilled to be join­ing one of the most stand­out pio­neers and look for­ward to help­ing the team make his­to­ry by obtain­ing the company’s first type cer­tifi­cates.”  

ZeroAvia recent­ly announced a sig­nif­i­cant reg­u­la­to­ry mile­stone after receiv­ing an FAA G‑1 issue paper for its 600kW elec­tric propul­sion sys­tem. The com­pa­ny is also work­ing to cer­ti­fy its first full hydro­gen-elec­tric pow­er­train – ZA600 – with the UK CAA.

ZeroAvia has already exten­sive­ly tri­alled a pro­to­type of the first ZA600-engine aboard a Dornier 228 air­craft at its UK base. The com­pa­ny has also per­formed advanced ground tests in the U.S and UK “for the key build­ing block tech­nolo­gies for the ZA2000 sys­tem, includ­ing cryo­genic tanks or LH2 and pro­pri­etary high-tem­per­a­ture PEM fuel cell and elec­tric propul­sion sys­tems,” con­tin­ues the release. 

ZA2000 will sup­port up to 80-seat region­al tur­bo­prop air­craft such as the ATR72 or the Dash 8 400. 

For more infor­ma­tion

https://zeroavia.com/

(Top image:Billy Nolen)

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