{"id":23975,"date":"2022-11-14T23:43:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T23:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=23975"},"modified":"2022-11-14T23:43:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T23:43:21","slug":"archer-aviation-selects-georgia-site-adjacent-to-covington-municipal-airport-for-manufacturing-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/georgia\/archer-aviation-selects-georgia-site-adjacent-to-covington-municipal-airport-for-manufacturing-facility\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Archer Aviation Selects Georgia Site Adjacent to Covington Municipal Airport for Manufacturing Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Archer Aviation Inc.<\/a> has announced plans to locate its manufacturing facility in Covington, Georgia at a site adjacent to the Covington Municipal Airport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Archer plans to initially build out a 350,000 square-foot\nfacility on a 96-acre site capable of producing up to 650 aircraft per year. The\nplanned eVTOL aircraft manufacturing facility is expected to create over 1,000\njobs over the long term. Construction is expected to be completed in the first\nhalf of 2024 with initial production expected to begin in the second half of\n2024. The facility will be capable of being expanded by an additional 550,000\nsquare feet, which is estimated to support production of up to 2,300 aircraft\nper year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In selecting the location for its first manufacturing\nfacility, Archer completed a comprehensive survey of potential sites across the\nUnited States. Key considerations included the availability of talent in the\nlocal labor market, utility availability, ability to conduct seamless flight\ntest operations, construction costs, and logistics. Archer will receive an\nincentive package, which includes land conveyance, tax incentives and Georgia\nREBA grant. As Archer looks to build its local community-focused relationships\nin Georgia, it anticipates that financing for the project will be provided by\nSynovus, the largest bank headquartered in the state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter many months of discussion and evaluation, we\u2019re\nexcited to select Georgia as the location for our manufacturing facility,\u201d said\nAdam Goldstein, Archer’s CEO. \u201cThe U.S. has long led the world in aerospace\ntechnology, and Georgia has played a vital role in that industry. Our eVTOL\ntechnology can transform how urban and rural communities live and commute and\nthis factory can create pathways to highly skilled manufacturing jobs and other\nladders of social and economic opportunity. I am grateful to Governor Kemp\nalong with Bob Kosek, Sara Gershon, Serra Hall, Frank Turner, and their teams,\nas well as all my colleagues at Archer as we work together to pioneer these\ninnovative aviation technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commenting on the decision to locate the facility in\nGeorgia, Governor Brian P. Kemp commented, \u201cGeorgia has made nurturing\ninnovation a priority as we work with businesses to define the future. Our\nestablished leadership in the aerospace industry was essential to landing\nArcher Aviation in Newton County. We are thrilled to welcome Archer to the\nstate of Georgia, where they can take advantage of our signature workforce training\nprogram Quick Start to help fill, in the long-term, over 1,000 jobs in\nCovington.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Home to more than 800 aerospace companies, Georgia maintains\na robust aerospace education pipeline, with a dozen high schools that offer\ntraining in the field, five technical colleges with aviation programs, and\nseveral universities offering degrees in aerospace engineering. A strategic arm\nof the Georgia Department of Economic Development, the Georgia Center of\nInnovation for Aerospace, has been cultivating an ecosystem of opportunities\nfor innovative companies like Archer for more than 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archer Aviation Inc. has announced plans to locate its manufacturing facility in Covington, Georgia at a site adjacent to the Covington Municipal Airport. Archer plans to initially build out a 350,000 square-foot facility on a 96-acre site capable of producing up to 650 aircraft per year. The planned eVTOL aircraft manufacturing facility is expected to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evtol","category-georgia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Archer-for-Covington-edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23975","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=23975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23978,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23975\/revisions\/23978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}