Watch Video: “Electra Expands U.S, European Facilities”

Electra.aero recent­ly announced the expan­sion of its facil­i­ties in Man­as­sas, Vir­ginia, and Bleien­bach, Switzer­land, to sup­port the company’s con­tin­u­ing growth and devel­op­ment of its nine-pas­sen­ger hybrid-elec­tric EL9 Ultra Short air­craft, reports a press release.

The com­pa­ny has opened a new 15,000 sq. ft hangar and 6,000 sq. ft office space at Man­as­sas Region­al Air­port. The expand­ed facil­i­ty is to house devel­op­ment and engi­neer­ing teams. This expands on the exist­ing 36,000 sq. ft HQ facil­i­ty. 

Mean­while, Elec­tra has more than dou­bled the size of its work­force in 2025 and will add dozens more team mem­bers in the com­ing year.

In Europe, Elec­tra has also expand­ed its R&D Cen­tre in Bleien­bach, Switzer­land, to near­ly 2,000 sq. ft. The release explains, “The Swiss facil­i­ty plays a key role in attract­ing top Euro­pean tal­ent and advanc­ing the company’s glob­al engi­neer­ing and inno­va­tion efforts.”

Marc Allen, CEO of Elec­tra, com­ment­ed, “We are on a mis­sion to trans­form avi­a­tion and expand our facil­i­ties. This ensures we’ll con­tin­ue attract­ing world-class engi­neer­ing tal­ent to design, devel­op and com­mer­cialise our EL9 air­craft, while giv­ing our teams the resources they need to get our Ultra Short air­craft into the hands of cus­tomers.” 

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Electra’s EL9 is designed to take off and land in spaces as short as 150 ft, using a com­bi­na­tion of hybrid-elec­tric propul­sion and blown-lift aero­dy­nam­ics. This capa­bil­i­ty opens thou­sands of new access points rang­ing from small, under­served air­ports, to non-tra­di­tion­al sites such as park­ing lots or fields. 

The com­pa­ny plans to begin flight test­ing the air­craft in 2027 and aims for FAA cer­ti­fi­ca­tion cred­it in 2028/ 2029, lead­ing to a com­mer­cial ser­vice in late 2029, ear­ly 2030.

To date, the com­pa­ny has secured more than 2,200 pro­vi­sion­al orders from over 60 cus­tomers world­wide, rep­re­sent­ing a pipeline of more than USD13 bil­lion.

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Electra.aero, Inc. 

(Top image: Elec­tra EL9 air­craft)

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