Two and a half months after Piedmont Triad International Airport landed the state’s biggest economic development project, JetZero has begun hiring the first of the 14,574 workers it’s projecting for its futuristic jet factory.
The Long Beach, California-based aviation startup plans to break ground in next year’s second quarter, JetZero President and COO Dan De Silva told reporters after a Greensboro Chamber of Commerce gathering on Wednesday. The company plans to build the plane from the ground up on more than 600 acres at the Greensboro airport.
The company is refitting a building owned by the airport authority as part of hiring engineers to design the new plane, which will be made of composite materials lighter than traditional aviation materials such as aluminum, according to De Silva…