Volocopter Secures EASA Production Approval Through Acquisition of Manufacturing Partner

Volocopter will soon hold both EASA production and design organization approvals when it completes the acquisition of DG Flugzeugbau, which has been helping it to build eVTOL prototypes for the past 10 years.

Volocopter will produce eVTOL prototypes including the VoloCity model under the EASA production organization approval secured through the acquisition of DG Flugzeugbau. (Image: Volocopter)

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

July 6, 2021

Volocopter is close to attaining EASA’s Part 21G Production Organization Approval (POA) through the acquisition of German light aircraft manufacturer DG Flugzeugbau. On the basis of a July 6 announcement, the company says that when the transaction closes later this summer it will the first and only eVTOL aircraft developer to hold both a POA and design organization approval (DOA), having attained the European aviation safety agency’s Part 21J clearance in 2019.

DG Flugzeugbau, which has been making composite gliders since 1973, has supported Volocopter since its formation in 2011 by helping to construct prototypes for its VC200, 2X, VoloDrone, and VoloCity aircraft. Both companies are based in the southern German town of Bruchsal.

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