Airobotics Drone Receives FAA Type Certification

14 September 2023
Unmanned Systems Technology

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted Airobotics Type Certification for its Optimus-1EX system.

The certification verifies the compliance of the system’s design with the required FAA airworthiness and noise standards, ensuring safe operation within the National Airspace System (NAS) thereby significantly broadening the range of operational scenarios and scaling up of operations for automated uncrewed aircraft.

Airobotics stands as the first non-air carrier vehicle to achieve it among numerous companies pursuing UAS type certification with the FAA.