The completion of the factory for building Boom Supersonic’s first supersonic commercial jetliner factory marks just the start of a likely expansion that will double and perhaps even triple its footprint at Piedmont Triad International Airport, its founder and chief executive said at a ceremony marking the occasion Monday morning.
CEO Blake Scholl said the company expects to build 33 of the jets a year but already plans to expand with another building housing a second manufacturing line to assemble that many a year, and perhaps a third. It is already working on a second and third version of the aircraft, larger than the first.
The additional facilities would take place on the 62-acre campus on the northwestern edge of PTI’s vast grounds, Scholl told media representatives after the ceremony. Scholl likened the 180,000-square-foot building that’s now completed to a Lego block that the company can repeat as needed. Chris Taylor, Boom’s vice president of manufacturing, told TBJ later than while there is enough land on that tract to accommodate a third building, the design work thus far place two on the site, with a third that would likely be built on other land at PTI. Scholl had noted in his remarks that future Superfactory blocks might need to be a bit larger to allow for larger models of the Overture.
Triad Business Journal
