Joby Aviation is expanding its production capacity with the acquisition of a second manufacturing plant in the Dayton, Ohio, area, the company announced on January 7, 2026.
The newly acquired 700,000 square feet (65,000 square-meter) facility is reportedly already ready for industrial use and will supplement Joby’s original manufacturing site in Marina, California, and the firm’s main assembly line, which is also being built in Dayton.
The Trump administration’s recent approval of the eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP), an initiative to accelerate eVTOL and other novel air transportation technology adoption in the United States, appears to have renewed the optimism of the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) industry in the United States.
JoeBen Bevirt, founder and CEO of Joby Aviation, said that he sees this growing industrial capacity as the basis for sustained growth over the long term.
“This site will not only support our near-term plan to double production, it can also serve as a base for significant future growth, as we turn a decade of engineering into the manufacturing scale the market is now demanding,” he said in the press release announcing the firm’s latest acquisition.
Although the certification process of its flagship all-electric eVTOL aircraft is still underway, Joby is already gearing up to double its expected production rate by 2027, from two to four aircraft per month.
In July 2025, Joby also announced that it would be doubling the production capacity at its Californian plant.