MARINA – Last year Joby Aviation delivered the first electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to the U.S. Air Force, and last week the company announced it would deliver two more aircraft that are now part of Joby’s AFWERX Agility Prime contract with the Air Force.
Joby’s longstanding partnership with the Department of Defense dates back to its 2016 engagement with the Defense Innovation Unit, which granted the company early funding as well as access to test ranges and expertise that have aided its aircraft development program.
Joby’s Agility Prime contract with the U.S. Air Force includes the provisioning of up to nine aircraft total to the Air Force and other federal agencies. In 2020, Joby became the first eVTOL developer to receive military airworthiness approval for its pre-production prototype aircraft. The company has designed and is producing an electric air taxi that will carry a pilot and four passengers at speeds up to 200 mph and offer high-speed mobility with a fraction of the noise produced by helicopters and zero operating emissions. Joby Aviation plans to operate these aircraft as part of aerial ridesharing networks in cities and communities around the world, starting in 2025, building on partnerships it has developed with Delta and Uber.
Last September, Joby announced it had selected Dayton, Ohio – beating out Marina and other contenders – as the location for its scaled manufacturing facility, capable of producing up to 500 electric vertical take-off and landing eVTOL aircraft per year, with plans to invest up to $500 million and create up to 2,000 high-quality, clean manufacturing jobs in the region. Construction of the scaled Ohio facility is expected to start this year and it is expected to come online in 2025.
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