{"id":21831,"date":"2022-04-25T16:44:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T16:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=21831"},"modified":"2022-04-25T16:44:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T16:44:06","slug":"natilus-expanding-at-san-diegos-brown-field-as-construction-begins-on-autonomous-cargo-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/california\/natilus-expanding-at-san-diegos-brown-field-as-construction-begins-on-autonomous-cargo-aircraft\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Natilus Expanding at San Diego\u2019s Brown Field as Construction Begins on Autonomous Cargo Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Natilus<\/a>, a U.S. company producing the world\u2019s first purposefully designed and manufactured autonomous aircraft for air freight transport, has announced its expansion to Brown Field<\/a> to host engineering and manufacturing facilities for the Natilus family of aircraft. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Brown Field facility includes a 12,000 square-foot\nhangar for prototype final assembly, structural testing, systems\u2019 integration\nand secondary structural bonding. There is also a generous 8,000-foot runway\nfor testing, with the ability to land large, oversized cargo aircraft. The\n1,500 square feet of additional office space will supplement Natilus\u2019\nengineering offices in downtown San Diego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As the design of the prototype aircraft nears\ncompletion, we are expanding the team and facilities to move into final\nassembly,\u201d stated Aleksey Matyushev, co-founder and CEO of Natilus. \u201cOur tier\none suppliers are excited about the new platform which will reduce carbon\nemissions, while increasing cargo volume. On continents, such as Africa and\nparts of Asia, with limited infrastructure, our new 3.8T autonomous aircraft\nwill become an essential mode of rapid and safe transportation.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natilus has initial plans to design and manufacture a family\nof four aircraft. The first aircraft – the 3.8 ton payload short-haul feeder\nUAV – has begun manufacturing for first flight in 2023. Last month, Natilus\nsigned a contract with Collins Aerospace for design, development, and\nintegration of a specialized loading system. Additionally, Natilus has designs\nfor a 60 ton payload medium\/long range UAV; 100 ton payload long-range UAV and\n130 ton long-range large cargo aircraft. All aircraft use JetA or SAF fuels and\nexisting ground infrastructure and standard air cargo containers, to produce an\ninnovative turnkey solution for its customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, Natilus announced purchase commitments of\nmore than $6 billion for delivery of more than 440 aircraft in pre-orders, from\nmajor airlines and integrators, including Volatus Aerospace, Astral Aviation,\nAurora International, Dymond and Flexport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Natilus, a U.S. company producing the world\u2019s first purposefully designed and manufactured autonomous aircraft for air freight transport, has announced its expansion to Brown Field to host engineering and manufacturing facilities for the Natilus family of aircraft. The Brown Field facility includes a 12,000 square-foot hangar for prototype final assembly, structural testing, systems\u2019 integration and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-california"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Natilis-.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21833,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21831\/revisions\/21833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}