EASA Publishes Final MOC-5 SC-VTOL Issue 2

EASA's Special Condition VTOL page was updated on 5 November 2026 with the final fifth publication of means of compliance, MOC-5 SC-VTOL Issue 2. The PDF itself is marked "Final publication," document number MOC-5 SC-VTOL, Issue 2, dated 5 November 2026. That is a means-of-compliance publication. It is not a type certificate for any aircraft, and it is not a new Special Condition.

The photograph is a Volocopter 2X on display at the Frankfurt motor show in September 2017. It shows one VTOL configuration. EASA's November document does not certificate that aircraft.

The Special Condition for small-category, person-carrying VTOL-capable aircraft sets safety and design objectives. EASA issued it in July 2019 after consultation. The means of compliance, published in successive documents, are EASA's account of how an applicant can show those objectives are met. Some of the material is guidance for understanding an objective rather than a single defined method, and EASA says applicants can propose alternatives for particular design features. Publishing a means of compliance does not mean an aircraft has completed type certification. The August 2026 certification roundup is the earlier snapshot of that longer process.

What Issue 2 is, and what was consulted

Issue 1 of MOC-5 SC-VTOL was the text put out for public consultation through EASA's Comment Response Tool from 18 July 2025 to 10 October 2025. Issue 2, dated 5 November 2026, is the second issue and the final publication. EASA's log of issues calls Issue 1 "First Issue for Public Consultation" and Issue 2 "Second issue for publication."

The final PDF says the publication includes a limited modification of MOC VTOL.2215, made for ongoing projects, to add technical clarifications and flexibility, and that this particular change is published without public consultation because of its content and scope. It also adds references to later industry standards, including ED-342, "Guidance on using Simulation in Handling Qualities Certification of VTOL," inside MOC VTOL.2510. A comment-response document to Issue 1 is published beside the final text. Readers should not treat the whole of Issue 2 as if every line had been through the 2025 consultation, and should not treat the consultation as if it were still open.

The contents run through structures, design and construction, lift/thrust installation, systems and equipment, and flight-crew information. Named items include flight-load conditions, high-energy fragments, bird impact, emergency landing conditions, fly-by-wire hidden failures, simulation-bench credit, electrical wiring, flight recorders, pressurised systems and air-data systems. Several of those sections replace or correct means of compliance in earlier MOC documents, including MOC SC-VTOL Issue 2 of 12 May 2021. The PDF says the MOC publications will continue to be consolidated into the Easy Access Rules. EASA's consultation page, in the same update, says the Easy Access Rules for small-category VTOL-capable aircraft currently consolidate Special Condition VTOL Issue 2, MOC Issue 2, MOC-2 Issue 3 and MOC-3 Issue 2. That sentence does not list MOC-5.

Eve and ANAC are not a November finalisation

The Eve Air Mobility page titled "Final eVTOL Airworthiness Criteria Published by ANAC" is a company release whose own archive dates it 5 November 2024. The dateline is São José dos Campos, 4 November, and the release says ANAC had published the final airworthiness criteria and that Eve would next work on means of compliance. That matches ANAC Portaria No. 15.760 of 31 October 2024, published in Brazil's official gazette on 1 November 2024, which made public the special-class airworthiness criteria for the EVE-100. It is not a November 2026 event, and criteria are not a type certificate.

In July 2026 ANAC opened a further sectoral consultation, Consulta Setorial No. 08/SAR/2026, on Revision 1 of the EVE-100 airworthiness criteria, process 00058.073662/2023-38, open from 17 July 2026 to 18 August 2026. A companion consultation on noise criteria, No. 07/SAR/2026, ran until 8 August 2026. ANAC's list of consultations closed in 2026, updated on 1 September 2026, still records the result of both as suggestions under analysis. This desk did not find a later ANAC ordinance publishing a final Revision 1. Until that document exists, Revision 1 is a closed consultation, not a finalised certification basis, and neither document is an aircraft type certificate.

Sources

• EASA: Special Condition for VTOL and means of compliance, updated 5 November 2026
• EASA PDF: MOC-5 SC-VTOL Issue 2, final, 5 November 2026
• ANAC: sectoral consultations closed in 2026, including EVE-100 Revision 1
• Eve Air Mobility release archived by the company as 5 November 2024
• Brazilian official gazette: Portaria No. 15.760 of 31 October 2024