POA Clears The Way For Manufacturing To Hit High Gear

Switzerland s Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) has granted Production Organization Approval (POA) to Kopter Group, confirming Kopter as a duly recognized Production Organization. It is attesting that Kopter has in place qualified personnel, the necessary methods, processes and procedures, as well as a reliable quality system. Granting the authorization is a major milestone for Kopter, making it eligible to produce and ramp up its light single-engine SH09 helicopter.

The handover ceremony of the certificate took place today at the Kopter premises in Mollis with the participation of the Chief Operations Officer of Kopter, Dr. Jan Nowacki, the FOCA POA Team Leader for Kopter, Urs Frei, and Andreas Boss, national FOCA POA coordinator.

"We are extremely satisfied to receive this certificate, which acknowledges all the work we’ve done in building a well performing team and organization," Nowacki said. "We thank FOCA for their trust and strong support in reaching this key step and look forward to pursuing our close cooperation on our way to produce our new turbine engine helicopter.”

"We are proud to handover this POA certificate to Kopter. It demonstrates that Kopter fulfills the highest aviation standards and possesses the capability, facilities, manpower, resources and quality assurance systems to produce and support the SH09 helicopter which is on its way to certification,” Boss said.

(Image provided with Kopter Group news release. [L-R] Andreas Danner, Head of Production Kopter, John Davidson, POA / MOA Quality Manager Kopter, Giuseppe Giannone, Head of Quality Management Kopter, Dr. Jan Nowacki, Chief Operations Officer Kopter, Urs Frei, FOCA POA Team Leader for Kopter, Andreas Boss, National FOCA POA Coordinator)

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