Boom Supersonic’s factory taking shape at PTI

The first of two final assembly lines at Boom Supersonic’s aircraft facility at Piedmont Triad International Airport is slated for completion next summer

The $500 million project is at the center of economic development efforts at Piedmont Triad International Airport

by CHRIS BURRITT

NW GREENSBORO – Boom Supersonic’s factory is rising at Piedmont Triad International (PTI) Airport, putting the $500 million project on track for completion of its first airplane assembly line next summer. During last week’s air show in Paris, France, Boom announced it had signed

Oak Ridge gets $140,000 in unexpected county funds

OAK RIDGE – Guilford County has appropriated $140,000 for two Oak Ridge projects –construction of a Heritage Farm Park playground that’s

by CHRIS BURRITT

Budget, $50,000 matching funds for ballpark approved

by PATTI STOKES

STOKESDALE – “It’s a lot of money, but it was well-examined,” Stokesdale’s mayor pro tem Derek Foy said after the council voted unanimously to approve the FY2023-24 budget at a special called meeting on June 21.

Prior to approving the budget, the council had held four budget agreements with three companies to supply wings, the fuselage, wing box and tail assembly for Ovation, the passenger airplane that will fly faster than the speed of sound. Final assembly of the plane is planned for two assembly lines on Boom’s 65-acre campus at PTI. www.nwobserver.com

“We’re putting those pieces together like a world-class jigsaw puzzle,” Boom President Kathy Savitt told Winston-Salem public radio station WFDD 88.5 in an interview last week. She and others monitor the progress of the Greensboro factory by viewing realtime cameras at the company’s headquarters in Denver, Colorado.

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