Aircraft
Airbus Backs Aerion To Take AS2 Supersonic Business Jet to Market
Under the agreement, both companies will exchange knowledge and capabilities in aircraft design, manufacturing and certification.
Aerion’s collaboration with Airbus on technology for the AS2 brings the company one step closer to a full program launch.
Aerion’s collaboration with Airbus on technology for the AS2 brings the company one step closer to a full program launch.

Aerion’s long-awaited AS2 supersonic business jet (SSBJ) program received a major boost last month when Airbus signed up for a partnership involving an exchange of knowledge and capabilities in design, manufacturing and certification. According to Aerion, the collaboration will support the Mach 1.6, $100+ million AS2 through to certification. Although the industrialization plan for the new jet has still to be confirmed, the Reno, Nev.-based group said that this will happen “over the course of the next year” and confirmed that it is no longer searching for a manufacturing partner.