Project Speedbird

Project Owner... LanzaJet and British Airways  
Project name Speedbird  
Status planned  
Startup 2028  
Geodata
Country United Kingdom  
City Teesside  
Production
Type TRL 8 First-of-a-kind commercial  
Technology Alcohol-to-jet  
Raw Material unknown  
Input 1 Second generation ethanol  
Output 1 sustainable aviation fuels SAF (90,000 t/y )  
Additional Information
Funding Explanation Project Speedbird – a joint partnership between LanzaJet, British Airways (BA), and Nova Pangaea Technologies (NPT) – has secured new funding totaling $11.2M (£9 million) from the Government’s Advanced Fuels Fund (AFF) competition.  
Technology Brief Located in Teesside, UK, this facility will produce over 90,000 tonnes (30 million US gallons) of SAF and renewable diesel annually. All the SAF produced is destined for British Airways, where it will help reduce their carbon emissions by 230,000 tonnes per year — equivalent to 26,000 domestic flights. Project Speedbird uses LanzaJet’s Alcohol-to-Jet technology to convert second-generation ethanol — produced from sources like agricultural residues and woody biomass — into SAF.  
Contact Information
https://www.lanzajet.com/speedbird  
Last Update: 2025-12-16 07:38:19