Elixir receives EASA CS-23 type certification

+VIDEO A brand new aircraft, the Elixir, designed, developed and built in France, has been type certified by the European Aviation Safety Agency.

The two-seat Elixir is a clean-sheet design, constructed as a one-piece carbon fibre moulding using techniques learned in the yachting industry. It has been certified in EASA’s new ‘lighter touch’ CS-23 airworthiness regulations for VFR flight.

Arthur Léopold-Léger, CEO of Elixir Aircraft, said, “On March 20, 2020 the Elixir in its 100hp VFR version received its type certificate in the queen of all categories: CS-23, under the most recent amendment (5), which reflects the highest level of safety possible today.

“Although it is hard to rejoice when our entire planet is fighting an invisible enemy, we should look back to fully appreciate how far we have come since our first certification meeting with the team of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in charge of the certification on 24 January 2017, only three years ago.

“The Elixir, to our knowledge, is the only modern light aircraft in the world designed from a blank sheet of paper to have obtained its certification following the latest amendment of the most rigorous category, CS-23, and doing this with safety objectives regularly exceeding the certification objectives!

“On a personal note, I would like to congratulate all of those who made this possible: members of Elixir Aircraft, close advisers and consultants of course, but also the EASA team, our investors, our customers, our banks, our design and production subcontractors, the administrations, and of course our families, whose support and encouragement are irreplaceable. Bravo and thank you!”

Elixir also released news of production of the aircraft:

• Production of the first four aircraft has started
• Work on the future Elixir Aircraft plant at La Rochelle airport began in December 2019. The delivery of this 2,300sqm dedicated to the production and assembly of the Elixir was initially scheduled for the end of May 2020.

When Coronavirus restrictions were imposed in France, like most companies in France, Elixir had to introduce different ways of working

“The production team was put on short-term working leave and the engineers and sales staff were switched to home office as soon as the first containment order was issued,” said Arthur.

“It is therefore at a distance from each other that we received the huge reward for which we fought so hard!”

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