Aciturri and Boom Supersonic sign supplier agreement for Overture empennage

• Supersonic aircraft leader selects Aciturri as design and development partner for the entire empennage

• Aciturri and Alestis have a wide experience developing and manufacturing empennages based on different technologies in the leading aerospace industry programs.

Boom Supersonic, the company building the world’s fastest airliner, optimized for speed, safety, and sustainability, announced today an agreement with Aciturri to become a key supplier on the Overture program at the Paris Air Show.

Overture’s empennage features a differentiated horizontal stabilizer that allows for greater control at subsonic speeds–particularly takeoff and landing. Under the agreement, Boom selected Aciturri to design and develop the entire empennage, including Vertical Tail Plane (VTP), Horizontal Tail Plane (HTP), Rudder & Elevators.

“Overture is a generation-defining project,” said Álvaro Fernández Baragaño, CEO of Aciturri. “We are thrilled to be given the unique opportunity to bring our engineering capabilities and decades of aerostructures and aeroengine components expertise to the future of sustainable supersonic flight with Boom.”

Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, said: “We are incredibly proud of the substantive progress with Overture and Symphony from our global team of partners and suppliers who continue to operate at an accelerated pace toward the future of sustainable supersonic flight”

As a TIER1 supplier to major OEM´s, Aciturri and Alestis have a wide experience developing and manufacturing empennages based on different technologies in the leading aerospace industry programs, such as A350 VTP, A320 HTP, A380 Rudder & Elevators, B737 Rudder or Falcon 7X Elevators.

Boom also signed structural supplier agreements for Overture’s wings, and the fuselage and wing box.

About Boom Supersonic

Boom Supersonic is transforming air travel with Overture, the world’s fastest airliner, optimized for speed, safety, and sustainability. Serving both civil and government markets,     Overture will fly at twice the speed of today’s airliners and is designed to run on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The company has secured SAF offtake agreements from Dimensional Energy and AIR COMPANY, bringing its total to 10 million gallons of SAF for Overture’s net zero carbon flight test program. Overture’s order book, including purchases and options from American Airlines, United Airlines, and Japan Airlines stands at 130 aircraft. Boom is working with Northrop Grumman for government and defense applications of Overture. Suppliers and partners collaborating with Boom on the Overture program include Aernnova, Leonardo, Aciturri, Safran Landing Systems, Eaton, Collins Aerospace, and the United States Air Force.

Symphony™ is the propulsion system that will power Overture, a Boom-led collaboration with world-class partners including Florida Turbine Technologies (FTT), a business unit of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., GE Additive and StandardAero.