The National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) published this Friday, November 1st, ordinance No. 15.760 of October 31, 2024, which contains the Airworthiness Criteria for the EVE-10 aircraft, from EVE Soluções de Mobilidade Aérea Urbana. The document contains the regulatory basis that will be observed for the certification of the model underway at the Agency.
The document presents the criteria that the aircraft must meet, regarding its structure, control systems, propulsion and battery, for example. This information is crucial to ensuring flight safety.
The publication of airworthiness criteria is an important step in the aircraft certification process, since this is a completely new piece of equipment in the aviation sector and there is no regulation that can be readily used as a basis for certification. According to the legal framework, ANAC may issue product certification criteria applicable to special cases of aircraft using parts of the existing regulations that are considered appropriate for the aircraft and applicable to the type design in question, and may also add other criteria considered necessary to provide safety equivalent to the existing regulations.
Since this is a new technology, ANAC opened a sector consultation in December 2023 so that companies, certification authorities and society could contribute to the document, in order to align practices already adopted internationally and so that the Brazilian product can compete fairly in the international market. In total, 297 contributions were presented to the text, which strengthens the Agency's certification process.
Next steps for certification
Once the certification basis definition phase is complete, the certification plan approval phase and demonstration of compliance with the requirements by EVE will continue. Next comes the compliance verification phase, before the certification can finally be issued.
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