{"id":204015,"date":"2026-03-24T15:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204015\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:05:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:05:20","slug":"aircraft-maker-prepares-for-production-at-cecil-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204015\/","title":{"rendered":"Aircraft maker prepares for production at Cecil Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Otto Aerospace is putting into motion its plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2025\/06\/11\/airplane-maker-tax-break-downtown-board-independence-air-quality-study-pass-city-council\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">build a production facility<\/a> in Jacksonville, as the city issued a permit to the aircraft maker for interior demolition in a hangar at Cecil Airport.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h924152-p2\">The permit for the hangar at 6105 Flightline Road is for 59,130 square feet of demolition at a project cost of $500,000. Balfour Beatty Construction LLC is the contractor.<\/p>\n<p>Otto, based in Texas, announced in June 2025 it would establish a manufacturing and production facility to build its Phantom 3500 business jet at Cecil Airport. The company was known then as Otto Aviation but changed its name in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/mar\/24\/city-issues-demolition-permit-for-otto-aerospace-at-cecil-airport\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story<\/a> at the Jacksonville Daily Record, a Jacksonville Today news partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Otto Aerospace is putting into motion its plan to build a production facility in Jacksonville, as the city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-204015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}