HAWTHORNE, Calif., - Universal Hydrogen said on Thursday it had reached a key regulatory milestone in the race to introduce emissions-free flight and demonstrate to regulators that hydrogen is safe. The California company said it had received a document known as G-1 from the Federal Aviation Administration - an important step towards establishing the way its plans to fly turboprop planes powered by hydrogen-based fuel-cells would be certified, Tim Hepher reports for Reuters. Continue reading original article.
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18 September 2023 - Universal Hydrogen is working with the FAA to finalize the full set of certification requirements in the months ahead. The company, which flew a hydrogen-powered regional airplane—the world’s largest—earlier this year, has embarked on an ambitious ground and flight test campaign to produce all the necessary data to demonstrate compliance with the airworthiness and safety standards for passenger aviation.
“I believe we have an important industry first here, and we appreciate our responsibility to ensure that the airworthiness certification criteria that are established set a positive precedent for the rest of the nascent hydrogen aviation industry,” said Mark Cousin, President and CTO of Universal Hydrogen.
“Well-deserved congratulations to Universal Hydrogen on their important and closely teamed work with the FAA in achieving these core milestones, advancing practical hydrogen aviation right into present-day processes,” noted Thomas d’Halluin, Managing Partner at Airbus Ventures, an investor in Universal Hydrogen.
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