Vaeridion GmbH, a Munich based aircraft manufacturer that is accelerating the green transformation of aviation with a battery-electric regional aircraft, and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the regulation and certification authority for aviation in Europe, have signed a Pre-Application Contract (PAC) on 15th November 2023. EASA and VÆRIDION are from now on cooperating towards the certification of VÆRIDION’s Microliner as a commercial commuter aircraft.

VÆRIDION is the first General Aviation aircraft manufacturer to enter into a Pre-Application Contract.

The Microliner project has successfully passed EASA’s maturity assessment. EASA has now assigned a team of renowned specialists to collaborate on a PAC project with VÆRIDION’s experts. The joint work will lay the foundation for the VÆRIDION Microliner certification path. Its initial key element is the unique multi-engine single propeller architecture of the electric powerplant.
Unlike the conventional Type Certification (TC) application process, the PAC serves to determine the provisional novel elements of a Certification Basis from the early development phases of an innovative product, well ahead of its application for certification. EASA and VÆRIDION will determine the applicable regulatory framework of both the existing specifications and the regulatory gaps to be closed. Subsequently, the respective EASA rulemaking and VÆRIDION’s development will run in parallel.
This early involvement and parallelization will help to substantially mitigate certification risk and associated delays, which often accompanies novel technology.

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