{"id":234521,"date":"2026-04-03T02:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/aurora-begins-final-assembly-of-revolutionary-x-65-aircraft"},"modified":"2026-04-03T02:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:04:19","slug":"aurora-begins-final-assembly-of-revolutionary-x-65-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/aurora-begins-final-assembly-of-revolutionary-x-65-aircraft","title":{"rendered":"Aurora begins final assembly of revolutionary X-65 aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aurora-begins-final-assembly-of-revolutionary-x-65-aircraft.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aurora Flight Sciences said the fuselage of its X-65 experimental aircraft has arrived for final systems integration.<\/p>\n<p>The Boeing subsidiary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AuroraFlightSciences\/posts\/pfbid024t4Std9XLy5LoUqDd9pGzaUmT7aSR5scgWesTisP9EfK41SgjeRywvPDfMQTHYghl\">said teams in Virginia<\/a> are now installing the aircraft\u2019s electrical, propulsion, and active flow control systems, while wing and tail production continues at its facility in West Virginia. The update marks the program\u2019s transition from major structural assembly into the final integration phase ahead of flight testing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe X-65 fuselage has arrived! Our teams are now integrating electrical, propulsion, and AFC systems into the aircraft fuselage in Virginia, while wing and tail manufacturing is advancing at our facility in West Virginia,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurora Flight Sciences said the fuselage of its X-65 experimental aircraft has arrived for final systems integration. The Boeing subsidiary said teams in Virginia are now installing the aircraft\u2019s electrical, propulsion, and active flow control systems, while wing and tail production continues at its facility in West Virginia. The update marks the program\u2019s transition from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}