According to Merlin, the test campaign, which is using a Merlin Pilot-equipped Cessna Grand Caravan 208B, will culminate in an STC that can be extended across other FAA Part 23 aircraft types and ...

New Zealand’s Civil Aviation Authority approved Merlin’s plan to prove the safety of a single-engine Cessna Caravan cargo plane kitted out with an initial limited autonomy package, making it ...

today announced it successfully began the flight test campaign of its certification-ready Cessna Caravan aircraft equipped with the Merlin Pilot. This campaign is a first for the industry and ...

Testing and validating key system capabilities such as Flight Guidance and Autothrottle significantly progresses Merlin’s supplemental ... its certification-ready Cessna Caravan.

All these startups plan to move on from the single-engine Cessna to popular larger turboprops ... deployment of automated flight capability. Merlin Labs, Reliable Robotics and XWing are all ...

The Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand (CAANZ) has awarded Merlin an experimental airworthiness certificate for its ...