Boom Supersonic Expands Turbine Production Near Denver, Still Plans to Build Jets in Greensboro
Why It MattersDeveloping its own turbine in-house ties a supersonic program's schedule to engine test results, so the engine milestone, not final assembly, becomes the gating item for the whole aircraft effort.
What happened
Boom Supersonic is expanding turbine production near Denver. The company plans to fire up its turbine before Thanksgiving, and data from that test is meant to help finalize production details for engines designed for supersonic jets.
Boom Supersonic CEO and Founder Blake Scholl showed a newly unveiled supersonic engine to U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright during an event at the company's R&D facility in Centennial, Colorado, on October 22, 2026.
The company still plans to build those jets in Greensboro, North Carolina, despite a series of delays.
Industry impact & what to watch
A supersonic airframe maker that builds its own engine ties the aircraft schedule to the engine program. Test-cell results feed directly into production specifications, so the turbine test is the point where design assumptions meet measured data, and the timing of everything downstream depends on how that data reads.
The split between engine work in the Denver area and planned aircraft production in Greensboro also means two sites have to reach readiness on compatible timelines. Delays at either end of that chain carry through to the other.
The next dated milestone is the turbine start planned before Thanksgiving; what the test data shows about production details is the first concrete signal on whether the engine side is converging.
