Companies · United States
Samson Sky
Samson Motors, Inc., which the September 15, 2026 release says does business as Samson Sky, said that day that it had secured an $80 million investment from Dubai-based Matin Group under a Joint Investment Agreement, toward a planned 180,000 square foot Switchblade production facility in the United States, with $20 million more still to be raised. The release says the joint venture is being set up. It does not show the investment as closed in a filing. The September 26 company page calls the same effort commitments toward a $100 million initiative and says the remaining $20 million is still under discussion. Samson says the Switchblade is a two-seat hybrid-electric flying car, that its official first flight was in November 2023, and that it is an experimental-category aircraft. Samson says the FAA does not certificate that category the way it certificates factory-built aircraft, and that the owner must build 51 percent. An experimental category is not a type certificate. No purchase price or delivery date is stated. The September 26 page describes a $500 non-refundable deposit for a delivery position, or a reservation with no money down, and refers to thousands of reservation holders without a count. It does not call those firm orders. The photograph is the one AeroTime published with its September 15 report and credited to Samson Sky.
- Status
- Active
- Updated
- Where the source places it
- PR Newswire dateline Prineville, Oregon; the company page gives 915 SW Rimrock Way, Suite 201-134, Redmond, OR 97756
Vehicles
- Switchblade Prototype
Certificates
No certification row is recorded here yet.
Funding and orders
| Date | Kind | Parties | Amount | What the source says | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Funding round Conditional |
$80 million announced; Samson says $20 million more is still to be raised. Not shown as closed in a filing. |
Samson Sky said on September 15, 2026 that it had secured an $80 million investment from Dubai-based Matin Group under a Joint Investment Agreement, toward a planned 180,000 square foot Switchblade production facility in the United States, and that $20 million more still has to be raised for full production funding. The release says the companies have begun setting up the joint venture. It does not say the funds have been received in a filing, and it is not a completed closing on the pages opened. Samson's September 26 page calls the same effort commitments toward a $100 million initiative, with Matin providing 80 percent, and says the remaining $20 million is still under discussion. AeroTime reported the September 15 announcement the same day. The investment is not an aircraft order. Samson says the Switchblade is an experimental-category aircraft. That is not a type certificate. |