INTERGEO 2022 will take place in Essen from 18 to 20 October 2022. NavCert Managing Director Marcel Visser will be there on 20.10. with an interesting UAV presentation: “DR 2019/945 Type Examination-UAV requirements and cost savings”. The regulation DR 2019/945 will become mandatory for all UAV distributed and operated in…
NavCert GmbH and senseFly, an AgEagle company announce that eBee X, eBee Geo and eBee Ag are the first commercial drones to be designated with the C2 class identification label in accordance with the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) regulations. Experts from the international acknowledged and accredited certification and testing…
On August 10, 2022, Lower Saxony’s State Secretary for Digitalization, Stefan Muhle, formally opened the cooperation between NavCert GmbH and Flughafen Braunschweig-Wolfsburg GmbH for the use of the airport for the performance of the assessment of UAS according to the Delegated Regulation EU 2019/945 by NavCert GmbH. Thus, NavCert offers…
The first meeting of the Coordination Group of Notified Bodies for UAS (NB-UAS) was held on July 14, 2022, and Oliver Schneider, NavCert employee, was elected as chairman. The NB-UAS Coordination Group, established by the European Commission, provides the framework for coordination, cooperation and exchange of experience between UAS Notified…
From 30.05.-01.06.2022, the 14th European ITS Congress took place in Toulouse, France. NavCert was on site with its ACCURATE project team, where they presented the first prototype of a high-precision (absolute and relative) positioning solution. The jointly developed ACCURATE On-Board Unit (OBU) leverages Valeo’s advanced Telematics Control Unit (TCU) and…
The German Federal Aviation Agency (Luftfahrt Bundesamt – LBA) in Germany has formally appointed NavCert as Notified Body for mandatory UAS certification as per Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/945. The formal notification is based on accreditation by the German accreditation body (Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle – DAkkS, April 29, 2022) as certification…
We are pleased to announce that NavCert is now accredited as a certification body for drone assessment under Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/945. On March 29, 2022, NavCert GmbH has been formally accredited as certification body by the German accreditation authority DAkkS (Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle) according to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/945 amended…
Drones (unmanned aircraft systems or UAS) are becoming a common sight in today’s society. As their role increases from photographic and recreational use to more critical, truly unmanned applications, it is vital that the safety of UAS is assured. Whereas most drone applications do not yet require certification, this is…
