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It was type certified as an aircraft in January 2022.
Klein Vision’s AirCar was issued a Certificate of Airworthiness in January 2022, not a type certificate.
Full reasoning
Klein Vision’s own January 2022 announcement says the AirCar “has been issued the official Certificate of Airworthiness by the Slovak Transport Authority.” It does not say the vehicle received a type certificate. That distinction matters: EASA explains that a Type Certificate is the approval for a new aircraft design, while its airworthiness rules state that a certificate of airworthiness is issued to an aircraft that conforms to an already issued type certificate. In other words, these are different regulatory approvals, and the January 2022 milestone described by Klein Vision was an airworthiness certificate, not type certification.
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- Flying Car Certified to Fly! Civil Aviation Authority issues AirCar the Certificate of Airworthiness
AirCar the dual-mode car-aircraft vehicle has been issued the official Certificate of Airworthiness by the Slovak Transport Authority...
- From idea to the sky: how EASA ensures that aircraft is safe to fly
To become operational, new aircraft must obtain a validation known as a “Type Certificate” from the responsible aviation regulatory authority.
- Easy Access Rules for Initial Airworthiness and Environmental Protection (Regulation (EU) No 748/2012)
Certificates of airworthiness shall be issued to aircraft which conform to a type-certificate that has been issued...