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Construction Starts On JetZero’s Greensboro Assembly Site
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Guy Norris<br>June 15, 2026
JetZero has broken ground on its 8-million-ft.2 Z4 blended wing body manufacturing facility at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina, with initial production targeted for the early 2030s.
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One year after announcing its aircraft production site selection, blended wing body developer JetZero has broken ground on its new Z4 manufacturing and assembly facility at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina.<br>The 8 million-ft.2 factory is being built on a 600-acre site that was selected after an exhaustive nationwide competition among 24 locations in 13 states. The site, announced by JetZero in 2025, forms part of a North Carolina-backed $4.7 billion investment plan designed to create 14,500 aerospace jobs over the next 10 years.<br>JetZero is expected to begin initial production in the early 2030s. Assembly of the baseline blended wing body prototype is meanwhile underway at Northrop Grumman’s Scaled Composites site in Mojave, California, close to JetZero’s Long Beach headquarters, with first flight due in late 2027.<br>For the first Z4 production version, JetZero provisionally plans to hold a critical design review around mid-2027, leading to assembly of production prototypes before the end of the decade. Under plans disclosed last year, JetZero aims to assemble an initial batch of aircraft before ramping up to an early build rate of three per month, gradually expanding to five per month.
JetZero has outlined plans to grow production to as many as 20 aircraft per month by the end of the fifth full year of production sometime in the mid-2030s.<br>The company’s Greensboro plant will be designed using advanced digital and artificial intelligence native platforms developed in collaboration with Deloitte and Siemens, the latter providing its Xcelerator open digital business platform. For the assembly site, Siemens also is helping JetZero plan the facility’s automation, layout and power requirements. This includes planning for composites, fiber layup capabilities, robots and other automated guided vehicles.<br>Piedmont Triad International Airport also was chosen in January 2022 by Boom Supersonic as the production site for its planned Overture Mach 1.7 airliner and is also home to Honda Aircraft’s HondaJet business jet assembly site. In addition, UK-based Marshall Aerospace picked the airport in 2023 for its main U.S. engineering facility.
Guy Norris
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Guy is a Senior Editor for Aviation Week, covering technology and propulsion. He is based in Colorado Springs.
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