No more show-floor demos. AIR ONE is moving from testing to an actual factory floor — and it just happened. AIR and Florida's transportation authorities have picked the SunTrax complex to build the two-seat personal eVTOL and its uncrewed cargo sibling. According to Autoevolution, production is targeted before the end of 2026. This is bigger than another flashy flight demo: the bottleneck now isn't the factory, it's finishing aviation certification.
SunTrax is owned by the Florida Department of Transportation and spans 775 acres — roughly 314 hectares. The aviation side of the campus includes vertiports, a nearly 1,840-meter test flight corridor, hangars, charging infrastructure, and dedicated eVTOL testing grounds. FDOT flatly calls the site Florida's hub for commercial Advanced Air Mobility.
AIR already had a production base in Israel: a facility opened in 2025, built to assemble up to six aircraft simultaneously, and the company has described its architecture as the blueprint for future US manufacturing. AIR had also already run flight operations in Florida and secured an FAA experimental airworthiness certificate for its prototype.
The production AIR ONE is a two-seater, not a single-seater. Current manufacturer specs point to up to an hour of flight time and a cruise speed of 115 knots, roughly 213 km/h. Folding wings let the aircraft be prepped for towing in about five minutes, and maximum payload is rated at 250 kg.
The regulatory hurdle has also gotten lower — right on time. The FAA's MOSAIC rule opened the door for powered-lift and electric propulsion systems within the expanded Light-Sport Aircraft category, and the rules covering LSA certification specifically took effect on July 24, 2026. The FAA is already accepting a separate ASTM standard for light powered-lift and multicopter aircraft. But AIR itself still lists AIR ONE's certification as pending.
The company already has a backlog: its official site says the first production batch of AIR ONE is fully spoken for, with reservations now open for the second. So the Florida line solves the manufacturing-location problem, but it doesn't yet set a date for customer deliveries. The next real checkpoint — the one that actually turns AIR ONE from a manufacturing story into a consumer aircraft — is final FAA LSA approval. And that clock is already running.
