Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) releases Eve Air Mobility’s eVTOL Airworthiness Criteria for public consultation

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty has released its pro­posed air­wor­thi­ness cri­te­ria for pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion, which has been unveiled by the Nation­al Civ­il Avi­a­tion Agency of Brazil (ANAC).

ANAC’s pro­posed air­wor­thi­ness cri­te­ria are sub­ject to pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion until mid-Feb­ru­ary 2024. After this peri­od, ANAC will analyse the feed­back received, poten­tial­ly incor­po­rat­ing changes into the cri­te­ria and sub­se­quent­ly unveil­ing the final cer­ti­fi­ca­tion basis.

This lat­est announce­ment rep­re­sents a note­wor­thy mile­stone in the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process and show­cas­ing the con­sid­er­able progress achieved in the devel­op­ment of Eve’s eVTOL air­craft.

Luiz Valen­ti­ni, chief tech­nol­o­gy offi­cer of Eve, said: “The pub­li­ca­tion of the pro­posed air­wor­thi­ness cri­te­ria is an impor­tant mile­stone towards the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion path of Eve´s eVTOL, and the open­ing for pub­lic com­ments con­tributes to the align­ment of the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion basis with­in the indus­try and among dif­fer­ent cer­ti­fi­ca­tion author­i­ties.

“This is in line with Eve´s path of hav­ing the vehi­cle type cer­tifi­cate issued by ANAC, as the pri­ma­ry cer­ti­fi­ca­tion author­i­ty, and val­i­dat­ed by oth­er author­i­ties around the world, where the eVTOL will be oper­at­ed.

Upon the final­iza­tion of the cri­te­ria, Eve and ANAC will focus on the means of com­pli­ance to be con­sid­ered for the eVTOL cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. As pre­vi­ous­ly stat­ed, ANAC is the pri­ma­ry cer­ti­fi­ca­tion author­i­ty for Eve’s eVTOL project.

Eve for­mal­ized the process for obtain­ing a Type Cer­tifi­cate for its eVTOL with ANAC in Feb­ru­ary 2022. The eVTOL cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process aligns with pro­ce­dures for obtain­ing a ‘spe­cial class cat­e­go­ry’ air­craft Type Cer­tifi­cate, adher­ing to air­wor­thi­ness require­ments out­lined in the exist­ing Brazil­ian Civ­il Avi­a­tion Reg­u­la­tions and oth­er stip­u­lat­ed cri­te­ria.

In a sig­nif­i­cant step towards glob­al recog­ni­tion, Eve also for­malised the Type Cer­tifi­cate val­i­da­tion with the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA) ear­li­er this year and is active­ly work­ing towards achiev­ing con­cur­rent val­i­da­tion.

To read the pro­posed cri­te­ria and sub­mit feed­back, vis­it ANAC’s web­page by click­ing here.