The Brazilian National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) published on Friday (1) Ordinance No. 15,760 of October 31, 2024, which sets out the Airworthiness Criteria for Eve Air Mobility’s EVE-10 aircraft. The document sets out the regulatory basis that will be observed for the certification of the model currently underway at the agency.
The document sets out the criteria that the aircraft needs to meet, in terms of its structure, control systems, propulsion and battery, for example. This information is crucial to ensuring flight safety.
The publication of the 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 are no regulations that can be readily used as a basis for certification.
According to the legal framework, ANAC can 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 also add other criteria deemed necessary to provide safety equivalent to the existing regulations.
As 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. A total of 297 contributions were submitted to the text, which strengthens the agency’s certification process.
Next steps for certification
Once the phase of defining the certification basis is complete, the phase of approving the certification plans and demonstrating compliance with the requirements by Eve continues. This will be followed by the compliance verification phase, before certification is finally issued.