Joby Aviation purchases facility in Dayton, Ohio, and begins hiring to support initial manufacturing operations in US state

Joby Avi­a­tion has acquired an exist­ing facil­i­ty at Day­ton Inter­na­tion­al Air­port and begun hir­ing in sup­port of the company’s ini­tial man­u­fac­tur­ing oper­a­tions in Ohio.

The facil­i­ty acquired by Joby will be fit­ted out to sup­port ini­tial man­u­fac­tur­ing oper­a­tions in the city, which are expect­ed to begin lat­er this year. The facil­i­ty will be used for the man­u­fac­tur­ing of air­craft parts in sup­port of Joby’s Pilot Pro­duc­tion Line in Mari­na, Cal­i­for­nia.

Didi­er Papadopou­los, Pres­i­dent of Air­craft OEM at Joby, said: “We’re pleased to be able to acquire an under­uti­lized facil­i­ty at Day­ton Inter­na­tion­al Air­port and repur­pose it as a mod­ern, high-tech man­u­fac­tur­ing cen­ter to serve as our ini­tial man­u­fac­tur­ing foot­print in the region. Lat­er this year, we expect to begin sub­trac­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing of tita­ni­um and alu­minum air­craft parts as we con­tin­ue to grow our work­force in Day­ton.”

Joby’s acqui­si­tion of the on-air­port facil­i­ty is the first step in the Company’s plan to devel­op facil­i­ties capa­ble of build­ing up to 500 air­craft per year in Day­ton, which is expect­ed to include the design and con­struc­tion of a larg­er green­field fac­to­ry.

Papadopou­los added: “I am deeply appre­cia­tive to the Day­ton com­mu­ni­ty, and Ohio more broad­ly, for the warm wel­come we have received as well as the high lev­el of inter­est in join­ing our team. We look for­ward to con­tin­ued col­lab­o­ra­tion and to grow­ing our pres­ence in the Mia­mi Val­ley region as we build the future of flight in the birth­place of avi­a­tion.”

Joby announced in Sep­tem­ber 2023 that it had select­ed Day­ton as the loca­tion for its scaled man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ty, capa­ble of pro­duc­ing up to 500 eVTOL air­craft per year. The com­pa­ny also plans to invest up to $500 mil­lion and cre­ate up to 2,000 high-qual­i­ty, clean man­u­fac­tur­ing jobs in the region.

Joby’s elec­tric air taxi is designed to car­ry a pilot and four pas­sen­gers at speeds of up to 200 mph, offer­ing high-speed mobil­i­ty with a frac­tion of the noise pro­duced by heli­copters and zero oper­at­ing emis­sions.