AIR Unveils New Production Facility “to Accelerate eVTOL Deliveries in Response to Growing Demand”

AIR, a lead­ing devel­op­er of fly­ing eVTOLs, announced this week the launch of a new, state-of-the-art 32,000 sq.ft facil­i­ty in cen­tral Israel, mark­ing the first step in the company’s expand­ing pro­duc­tion oper­a­tions, reports a press release. 

The new site sup­ports the pro­duc­tion of up to six air­craft at var­i­ous stages simul­ta­ne­ous­ly, sig­nif­i­cant­ly enhanc­ing AIR’s capac­i­ty to scale pro­duc­tion and short­en deliv­ery time­lines for its 250kg pay­load-capa­ble, mul­ti-domain eVTOL.

This enables the com­pa­ny to accel­er­ate pro­duc­tion and reduce deliv­ery times as demand increas­es for both its uncrewed car­go and pilot­ed two-seater air­craft, which is soon to be LSA-cer­ti­fied.

The release states, “The pur­pose-built space will fea­ture cut­ting-edge infra­struc­ture includ­ing an air­craft assem­bly line, engi­neer­ing lab, com­pos­ite mate­ri­als work­shop, paint shop, and more. With the abil­i­ty to accom­mo­date the con­cur­rent pro­duc­tion of up to six air­craft at var­i­ous stages, AIR is posi­tioned to scale pro­duc­tion as demand grows. The new site will also serve as the blue­print for the larg­er, more advanced U.S.-based facil­i­ty, equipped with an auto­mat­ed pro­duc­tion line, for high vol­ume pro­duc­tion.”

Rani Plaut, CEO and co-Founder of AIR, com­ment­ed, “The con­tin­ued devel­op­ment of our eVTOLs brings us clos­er to real­is­ing a vision of acces­si­ble and effi­cient air trans­porta­tion across sev­er­al appli­ca­tions. We are not just build­ing air­craft, we’re cre­at­ing a future where air mobil­i­ty is inte­grat­ed seam­less­ly into every­day life, offer­ing new pos­si­bil­i­ties for indi­vid­u­als and enter­pris­es alike.”

He con­tin­ued, “This new facil­i­ty embod­ies the progress we’ve made and is a cru­cial step in turn­ing our vision into action. We are now gear­ing up to estab­lish a much larg­er man­u­fac­tur­ing hub in the U.S to sup­port high demand from our cus­tomers there, across all sec­tors.”

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The facil­i­ty allows for in-house test­ing of its air­craft before flight. The company’s “auto­mo­tive-based DNA” enables its Tier 1 sup­pli­ers to deliv­er proven and test­ed sub­sys­tems for assem­bly at the site, stream­lin­ing oper­a­tions and main­tain­ing pro­duc­tion cycle effi­ca­cy.  

Chen Rosen, CTO and co-Founder of AIR, remarked, “This new site was built with future growth in mind, offer­ing ample space and the flex­i­bil­i­ty required for increased pro­duc­tion capac­i­ty. The lay­out enhances col­lab­o­ra­tion across teams, ensur­ing greater oper­a­tional effi­cien­cy between pro­duc­tion, engi­neer­ing, and sup­port func­tions.”

Chen Rosen

This lat­est devel­op­ment marks the next phase of growth for AIR, which has already dou­bled its team size over the past year and expand­ed its prod­uct line. This comes on the heels of suc­cess­ful advanced flight demon­stra­tions in remote envi­ron­ments for AIR’s uncrewed car­go eVTOL and a col­lab­o­ra­tion with EDAG to pro­duce the main air­craft struc­ture for both crewed and uncrewed eVTOLs. 

With 15 uncrewed car­go craft sched­uled for deliv­ery in the com­ing year and over 2,500 pre­orders for the pilot­ed per­son­al vehi­cle AIR ONE, the com­pa­ny “is dri­ving the evo­lu­tion of the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty indus­try for both com­mer­cial and pri­vate use cas­es.”

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https://www.airev.aero

(Top image: new facil­i­ty)

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