Joby Aviation Doubles California eVTOL Plant Capacity to 24 Aircraft a Year

Joby Aviation has doubled the size and output of its pilot manufacturing plant in Marina, California to roughly 435,500 square feet, enabling production of as many as 24 electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft a year. The expanded site also houses ground and flight testing, pilot-training simulators and aircraft maintenance, laying the groundwork for Federal Aviation Administration production certification. The company said its sixth pre-production aircraft rolled out of the California line and obtained an air-worthiness certificate within a week, underscoring progress toward commercial readiness after the first piloted test flights were completed earlier this summer. Engineers from long-time investor Toyota are working alongside Joby staff to streamline assembly and tooling. Toyota closed the first $250 million portion of a planned $500 million investment in May, and is advising on both the Marina plant and a newly renovated facility in Dayton, Ohio that is designed to scale to as many as 500 aircraft annually. Joby aims to begin paid air-taxi services in Dubai in early 2026 and then expand to the United States, positioning the enlarged production footprint in California and Ohio as critical to meeting those launch targets.