Next year will see Joby Aviation fully engaged in the type certification process for its four-passenger eVTOL aircraft, with the FAA expected to accept the means of compliance (MoC) for the process during the first half of 2022. In a recent briefing to update reporters and others on progress with its plans to bring the all-electric vehicle into commercial service during 2024, Greg Bowles, the U.S. company’s head of government and regulatory affairs, said that it has been working on its Part 23 certification plans so that it will be ready to file its application as soon as the MoC is confirmed by the aviation safety agency.
Joby’s head of programs and systems engineering, Didier Papadopoulos, explained that once the MoC is agreed to, plans to test all aircraft systems and components will be finalized; then the tests will get underway and the results will be analyzed. Finally, the test results will be verified by the FAA, whose own test pilots will fly the aircraft before the type certificate is issued.
