French business‑jet developer Beyond Aero has begun searching for a site for a production campus for its fuel‑cell BYA‑1 after completing feasibility studies for a facility sized to produce up to 60 aircraft per year, with potential expansion to 120. The move signals a step toward serial production.
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Facility sized for up to 60 BYA‑1s/year (expandable to 120) sets clear industrial scale requirements — a pivotal datapoint for capital, tooling and supplier capacity decisions.
The programme moves hydrogen/fuel‑cell propulsion closer to commercial business‑jet operations, reinforcing industry momentum on hydrogen‑electric systems (see hydrogen‑electric powertrains integration).
Pursuing a dedicated production campus mirrors recent French OEMs establishing new manufacturing sites, underlining broader industrialisation trends for emerging low‑emission aircraft (see recent French factory and U.S. production site openings).
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(NL) Beyond Aero is already considering large-scale series production • pilootenvliegtuig.nl
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• Dominic Perry