Don’t expect a trifle like the crash of one of its two electric takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi prototypes to slow Joby’s drive to obtain a Part 135 Air Carrier Certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). This week the company revealed it had begun the fourth of the five steps in that process, and expects to complete it by the end of the year.
Joby appears to pursuing its push to obtain FAA certification of its eVTOL air taxis at warp speed. The company only filed to begin the Part 135 Air Carrier marathon last June, and in August completed the second stage – involving among other things, Joby says, “submission of a complete package of manuals.” Last week the company commenced the fourth and penultimate phase at around the same time the National Transportation Safety Board issued a preliminary report finding the February 16 crash of a Joby air taxi prototype was caused by “a component failure.”
That accident…
