Boom Supersonic is facing doubts about its supersonic airliner timeline as it shifts focus toward gas turbines for AI data centers. United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said on the Office Hours: Business Edition podcast, which appeared on October 28, 2026, that the company's official 2029 delivery target for the Overture airliner "is going to take longer." Kirby also said Boom has "a lot of hurdles to overcome" in developing the aircraft and getting it certified by the FAA, and earlier put the chances of Overture entering commercial service at "50-50." He praised Boom CEO Blake Scholl and the company overall.
Boom's Overture factory in Greensboro, North Carolina, was completed in 2024 but has mostly sat dormant since then, according to the report. North Carolina provided more than $50 million in taxpayer funding to help build it.
On October 22, Boom unveiled a factory in Centennial, Colorado, to produce its 42-megawatt Superpower natural gas turbine for data centers. The company says it aims to deliver the first turbines to AI data center customers in mid-2027, ramping to 25 turbines in 2028 and 50 in 2029. Scholl acknowledged in a September 25 post on X that a $1.25 billion deal with data center developer Crusoe, covering 29 turbines, had been lost. He said Boom will deliver about 250 MW of Superpowers to other sites next year but did not name those customers.
Boom says its Sprint Core turbine prototype will power both the Superpower turbine and the Symphony engine for the Overture airliner. The company plans to fire the core for the first time before Thanksgiving at the Colorado Air & Space Port.