Loveland-based Scion Aviation opening assembly facility in Cheyenne

LOVELAND – Scion Aviation LLC, which is rapidly outgrowing its Loveland facility, will this fall move its final assembly, painting and delivery operations to a 43,000-square-foot building at the Cheyenne Regional Airport in Wyoming.

Scion’s chief executive, Jim Sampson, said Monday that he plans to have the new facility up and running by the end of the first quarter of 2017. He said the Cheyenne facility will initially employ 10 to 20 people, but should grow to 30 employees in the coming years.

Scion — a contract manufacturer of parts and airframes for companies that make both unmanned and full-scale aircraft —…