Merlin shifts civil certification strategy to large aircraft
Merlin shifted its civil certification strategy to large aircraft, withdrawing its small-aircraft STC application with New Zealand’s aviation regulator.
The company kept New Zealand as its Pacific flight-test center, using prior CAANZ work to support future FAA engagement.
Merlin said its earlier program reached SOI 3, with a Stage 4 issue paper covering AI/ML-based natural-language processing.