Aerion was an American aircraft maker based in Reno, Nevada, founded by Robert Bass of Fort Worth, Texas, in 2003. From 2004 until 2021 it developed a supersonic business jet meant to cut transatlantic flights by three hours, using boomless cruise technology to negate the sonic boom, and it expected to build the first supersonic aircraft without an afterburner and the first to run on biofuels. Its projects were the Aerion SBJ, the larger Aerion AS2 with General Electric Affinity engines and partners that included Airbus, Lockheed Martin and Boeing, and a Mach 4 AS3 airliner announced in 2021. The company shut down on 21 May 2021 after failing to raise the capital it needed, with 93 orders for the AS2 on its books.
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Aerion Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Reno, Nevada.
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Aerion Corporation was founded in 2003 by Texas billionaire Robert Bass
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Aerion abruptly announced on May 21, 2021, that the company would be shutting down
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Aerion Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Reno, Nevada.
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was a proposed supersonic business jet that was being developed by Aerion Corporation
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The Aerion SBJ was a supersonic business jet concept designed by American firm Aerion Corporation.
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