Joby Completes Submission of Stage Three Certification Plans to FAA

Good news just keeps rolling on for Joby Avi­a­tion.

While its share price con­tin­ues to rise and closed on USD10.69 (July 5th), the com­pa­ny announced yes­ter­day (July 6th), it has now sub­mit­ted all of its Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Plans to the FAA, “mark­ing fur­ther progress toward com­plet­ing the third of five stages required to cer­ti­fy its air­craft for com­mer­cial use,” reports a press release.

In this third stage, Joby spec­i­fies, “the tests, analy­ses and design reports it intends to per­form to demon­strate com­pli­ance with each safe­ty reg­u­la­tion that applies to the Company’s air­craft, as defined in the sec­ond stage.”

In Feb­ru­ary, Joby became the first eVTOL com­pa­ny to com­plete the sec­ond stage of the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process, “after becom­ing the first to com­plete stage one and have its Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Basis pub­lished in the Fed­er­al Reg­is­ter.”

Didi­er Papadopou­los, Head of Air­craft OEM at Joby, com­ment­ed, “Joby con­tin­ues to lead the way on cer­ti­fy­ing eVTOL air­craft with the FAA, and today’s news is anoth­er step towards launch­ing com­mer­cial ser­vice in 2025.”

Didi­er Papadopou­los

The release con­tin­ues, “Joby’s stage three sub­mit­tals include about a dozen Area-Spe­cif­ic Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Plans (ASCPs), which cov­er both hard­ware and soft­ware aspects of every sys­tem onboard the Company’s five-seat eVTOL air­craft, includ­ing its flight con­trols, ener­gy stor­age and dis­tri­b­u­tion sys­tem, and propul­sion sys­tem.”

It goes on, “In addi­tion to sub­mit­ting all of its ASCPs, as expect­ed, Joby has also sub­mit­ted all oth­er Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Plans com­pris­ing the third stage of its air­craft type cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gram, includ­ing detailed plans for air­craft cyber­se­cu­ri­ty and sys­tems safe­ty.”

Last week, Joby cel­e­brat­ed the pro­duc­tion launch at its Mari­na facil­i­ty in Cal­i­for­nia, when the first air­craft built on the line, secured a Spe­cial Air­wor­thi­ness Cer­tifi­cate from the FAA, clear­ing it to begin flight test­ing. The air­craft is expect­ed to be deliv­ered to Edwards Air Force Base as part of Joby’s con­tract with the U.S. Air Force worth up to USD131 mil­lion.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.jobyaviation.com

(Top image: Joby’s pro­duc­tion pro­to­type eVTOL air­craft at the company’s man­u­fac­tur­ing and flight test­ing facil­i­ties in Mari­na, Cal­i­for­nia. Cred­it: Joby)