Aerospace Certification & Systems Engineering
Highly experienced certification and systems engineers that work with chief engineers, technical program managers and systems engineers to ensure performance to plan and regulatory compliance, embedded in your program and accountable to your schedule.
Senior specialists, focused where certification is won or lost.
Certification programs rarely slip on the engineering itself. They slip on plans written late, findings found during test, and documentation that does not match what the regulator expected. Our specialists have led this work from the inside and join your team to close those gaps early.
They bring depth in four domains, and the judgment to know how each applies to your system.
Design holders, suppliers and new entrants.
Our team has worked airplane, rotorcraft, and engine certification programs across FAA, EASA, and other civil aviation authorities — including new designs still establishing their basis under special-conditions pathways like FAA 21.17(b) and EASA SC-VTOL. That range matters: a supplier delivering into a design holder needs to speak that organization's process, and a new entrant needs someone who has seen how a mature design holder gets to approval.
Defense and space programs bring their own frameworks, including MIL-STD, airworthiness authorities and mission assurance, and the same discipline carries across.
Roadmap to Design Certification.
Six short episodes on the path from working prototype to certified product: what each stage looks like, where programs get stuck, and how we get them unstuck.
Why FAA regulation governs commercialization rather than innovation, and the five stages a design moves through on its way from working prototype to Type Certified product.
Watch on YouTubeA prototype is not a product that only lacks FAA approval. What changes once buyers and investors ask how long certification will take and what it will cost, and how a certification assessment answers them.
Watch on YouTubeA production-ready design or a change to a certified part still needs FAA agreement on every regulation that applies. How to collect, assess and document them, and why designs often change along the way.
Watch on YouTubeWith the regulations known, you need FAA agreement on how you will show compliance to each one, by test, analysis or similarity, across every specialist who has to approve it.
Watch on YouTubeOnce compliance plans are agreed, the work turns to evidence: defining each test, proving the test article is the part you will produce, and writing the artifacts that show compliance.
Watch on YouTubeDrawings, acceptance test procedures and qualification test plans are ready and testing is close. Staffing the tests, writing QTRs and QSARs, and deciding whether a test failure means a retest.
Watch on YouTubeThe roles your program needs filled.
One accountable lead or a fully embedded team, the model is the same: senior people, in your program, measured against your plan.
Senior engineers
Do the certification engineering directly, from compliance planning through test and the findings that close it out, with the depth your regulator expects.
Technical contributors with accountability
Work with other equipment managers or independently to hold the certification plan to schedule by understanding sequencing plans, reviews and test, so findings surface early and milestones hold.
Systems engineers
Requirements, traceability and compliance evidence built alongside your engineers. Where your program runs model-based systems engineering, we work in the model and keep the digital thread from requirement to certification evidence intact.