Joby Aviation has begun power‑on testing of the first FAA‑conforming S4 eVTOL, a Type Inspection Authorization (TIA) milestone in the FAA's final stage of type certification. The step allows thousands of hardware and software integration tests ahead of 'for‑credit' flight testing with FAA test pilots.
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Joby cleared a TIA milestone: the first of several FAA‑conforming aircraft is in power‑on test, enabling thousands of hardware and software integration tests and progression to ‘for‑credit’ FAA flight testing.
The move materially advances Joby’s commercialization path and follows public S4 demonstrations and efforts to integrate Blade bookings into the Uber app ahead of service launch.
This testing phase sets up large‑scale validation of software and autonomy workstreams, building on Joby’s partnership to bring NVIDIA IGX Thor compute into its autonomy stack.
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