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Archer buys three Boeing units and a defense business in one eVTOL deal
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Archer buys Boeing's eVTOL units, gains defense business overnight
Boeing just sold three of its subsidiaries to Archer Aviation in exchange for equity, turning the air-taxi startup into a full-stack manufacturer with a ready-made defense arm. Instead of building supply chains and expertise from scratch, Archer now owns the production capacity, engineering talent, and a business line selling military drones. The deal compresses years of vertical integration into a single transaction, which means Archer can scale faster and generate defense revenue while its commercial air-taxi service is still in trials. For Boeing, shedding these units lightens the balance sheet, but it also cedes a foothold in urban air mobility to a competitor that just became much harder to catch.
