Archer begins construction of high-volume EVTOL manufacturing facility in Covington, Georgia

Archer Avi­a­tion has begun con­struc­tion of its 350,000 square-foot high-vol­ume man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ty in Cov­ing­ton, Geor­gia, strate­gi­cal­ly locat­ed adja­cent to the Cov­ing­ton Munic­i­pal Air­port and capa­ble of pro­duc­ing up to 650 air­craft per year.

Archer believes this type of high-vol­ume man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ty is a first for the eVTOL indus­try. The Cov­ing­ton facil­i­ty will be capa­ble of expan­sion by an addi­tion­al 800,000 square feet, which is esti­mat­ed to sup­port long-term pro­duc­tion tar­gets of up to 2,300 air­craft per year.

The news comes on the heels of Archer’s announce­ment in Jan­u­ary of an expand­ed rela­tion­ship with Stel­lan­tis, one of the world’s lead­ing automak­ers and own­er of brands like Jeep, Ram and Maserati, under which the two com­pa­nies will join forces to man­u­fac­ture the company’s Mid­night pro­duc­tion air­craft.

This ‘unique part­ner­ship will lever­age each company’s respec­tive strengths and com­pe­ten­cies to bring the Mid­night air­craft to mar­ket’. Archer brings its world-class team of eVTOL, elec­tric pow­er­train and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion experts while Stel­lan­tis will con­tribute advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing tech­nol­o­gy and exper­tise, expe­ri­enced per­son­nel and cap­i­tal to the part­ner­ship.

This com­bi­na­tion is intend­ed to enable the rapid scal­ing of air­craft pro­duc­tion to meet Archer’s com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion plans by help­ing it avoid hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars of spend­ing dur­ing the man­u­fac­tur­ing ramp up phase. The goal is for Stel­lan­tis to mass pro­duce Archer’s eVTOL air­craft as its exclu­sive con­tract man­u­fac­tur­er.

“We are thrilled to be tak­ing this next impor­tant step as we work close­ly with Stel­lan­tis to ramp up our high-vol­ume man­u­fac­tur­ing capa­bil­i­ties at this new facil­i­ty in Cov­ing­ton, Geor­gia,” said Archer founder and CEO Adam Gold­stein.

“The key to unlock­ing the promise of what the eVTOL air­craft indus­try can bring is scale, and we are thrilled by the sup­port the State of Geor­gia and New­ton Coun­ty are pro­vid­ing to this first-of-its-kind facil­i­ty in such an excit­ing new indus­try.”

Archer plans to hold a cer­e­mo­ni­al event in April in Cov­ing­ton, GA. In Jan­u­ary, Archer Avi­a­tion and Stel­lan­tis agreed to join forces to man­u­fac­ture Archer’s Mid­night eVTOL air­craft.

Stel­lan­tis to help build Archer’s Mid­night air­craft and pro­vide up to $150 mil­lion in equi­ty cap­i­tal