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EASA grants Pipistrel Electro type certificate
SLOVENIAN AIRPLANE maker Pipistrel has
worked for several years to get an electric
aircraft certified, and European regulators
signed off on the first such type certificate
in June. The Velis Electro is a two-seat, single-motor version of the Pipistrel Virus SW
121, which first flew in 1999 and is powered
by a Rotax 912S3 engine.
Pipistrel has worked on electric aviation for many years and flew its first
electric two-seater in 2007. Pipistrel won
the NASA Green Flight Challenge in 2011
and has produced nine different experimental and serially produced electric
aircraft. (The Velis Electro is a certified
successor of the Alpha Electro.) The Velis
was conceived as part of Pipistrel's Velis
Training System, designed to electrify
flight training and reduce both carbon
footprint and cost. The switch to electric power (stored on board in lithium-ion
batteries that Pipistrel designed and
produced) reduces the complexity and
maintenance cost of the aircraft.
"The type certification of the Pipistrel
Velis Electro is the first step towards the
commercial use of electric aircraft, which
is needed to make emission-free aviation
feasible. It is considerably quieter than
other aeroplanes and produces no combustion gases at all," said Ivo Boscarol,
Pipistrel's founder and CEO. "It confirms
and provides optimism, also to other
electric aircraft designers, that the type
certificate of electric engines and aeroplanes is possible. The engine, which
Pipistrel type certified separately, is also
available to other aircraft OEMs. For
Pipistrel, this achievement injects additional motivation for the future eVTOL and
multiseat hydrogen-powered projects."
The European Union Aviation Safety
Agency approved both powerplant and
aircraft in less than three years, a remarkable feat because no regulator in the world
had previously certified either an electricpowered aircraft or an electric aviation
powerplant.
It remains to be seen what additional
validation and testing the FAA might
require before issuing a type certificate for
the Velis Electro, or if Pipistrel will pursue
that. The company noted plans to deliver
aircraft to 31 Velis Electro customers in
seven countries before the end of the year.
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