Archer Aviation Showcases Midnight Aircraft in Atlanta, “Manufacturing Facility in Georgia Nears Completion”

Archer Avi­a­tion announced this week two lat­est pieces of news, reports a press release. Its Cov­ing­ton, Geor­gia man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ty is close to com­ple­tion and in prepa­ra­tion, the eVTOL com­pa­ny show­cased its Mid­night Air­craft at Atlantic Aviation’s new ter­mi­nal at DeKalb–Peachtree Munic­i­pal Air­port.

Guests includ­ed gov­ern­ment offi­cials from Georgia’s Office of the Gov­er­nor, Con­gres­sion­al Offices, the City of Atlanta, Georgia’s State Leg­is­la­ture, the FAA and oth­er local gov­ern­ments.

Archer com­plet­ed the first build-phase ear­li­er this year of its facil­i­ty inclu­sive of grad­ing and foun­da­tion work and is now close to com­ple­tion of phase two, the erec­tion of the exte­ri­or walls and roof. Phase three, its inte­ri­or fit out, and phase four, the equip­ment load in and pow­er on, are on track to be com­plet­ed by the end of the year.

Once com­plete, this facil­i­ty will be near­ly 400,000 sq. ft and is to sup­port Archer’s planned pro­duc­tion of up to 650 Mid­night eVTOLs annu­al­ly, mak­ing it one of the largest man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ties by vol­ume in the avi­a­tion indus­try. 

The com­pa­ny’s build­out is tak­ing place in close col­lab­o­ra­tion with Stel­lan­tis, where the com­pa­nies con­tin­ue to progress their plans to mass-pro­duce Archer’s Mid­night air­craft.

Atlantic Aviation’s Ter­mi­nal at DeKalb–Peachtree Munic­i­pal Air­port (Cred­it: Atlantic Avi­a­tion)

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Adam Gold­stein, co-Founder and CEO of Archer, com­ment­ed, “We’re track­ing towards com­plet­ing this man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ty by the end of the year. Once com­plete, we’ll focus on ramp­ing pro­duc­tion up to annu­al­ly 650 air­craft. Our goal is to be the first in the eVTOL indus­try to achieve scaled man­u­fac­tur­ing.”

Mid­night rep­re­sents the poten­tial for a sig­nif­i­cant step-change for avi­a­tion. Built around Archer’s pro­pri­etary elec­tric pow­er­train, Mid­night is designed to offer pas­sen­gers a sus­tain­able, low-noise and safe alter­na­tive to ground trans­porta­tion.

: Trav­els at speeds up to 150 mph, turn­ing hour-long ground com­mutes into min­utes in the air.

: Designed for back-to-back flights of 20–50 miles with min­i­mal charge time in between.

: 100x qui­eter than a heli­copter at cruis­ing alti­tudes, near­ly inaudi­ble from the streets below.

: Redun­dant sys­tems across the air­craft allow­ing Archer to tar­get sim­i­lar lev­els of safe­ty as com­mer­cial air­lin­ers.

: Designed to car­ry a pilot, up to four pas­sen­gers, and car­ry-on lug­gage.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.archer.com

(Top image: Geor­gia Man­u­fac­tur­ing Facil­i­ty)

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