Title of Working Group: Digital Transformation in Aircraft Certification
Category: Task Forces
Excerpt: ICAO - IFAR action on the investigation of the benefits and limitations of digitalization for improving the certification processes
Content: Goal: Investigation of the benefits and limitations of digitalization for improving the certification processes

Context:

•Aviation authorities and industry seek to accelerate the exchange of certification documents and data through digital platforms

•Recent research explored methods to increase confidence in the interpretation of certification documents via structured engineering models and artificial intelligence (AI)

Approach: 2-year collaboration between IFAR and ICAO, led by ONERA and NRC

•Identify needs of certification stakeholders and specify assurance scenarios

•Examples: Cross-check of national/international regulations,
guidance for setting certification plans,
detection of gaps in safety cases, etc.

•Assess research enablers and gaps to implement
assurance scenarios

•Demonstration case (single-aisle large aircraft):
Help substantiate the assessment

•Deliver a roadmap on deployment opportunities and
research gaps by the end of 2026

Digital Transformation in Aircraft Certification