Regent Craft Finishes Electric Seaglider Production Center in Rhode Island

Manufacturer officially lays anchor in Ocean State, completing one of the world’s first such facilities.

Jack Daleo

Tuesday, June 16, 2026 at 03:30 PM ET

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Travis Tingle

Regent Craft’s Viceroy is an electric, wing-in-ground effect seaglider design. [Credit: Regent Craft]

Key Takeaways:

Regent Craft has completed the world's first dedicated 255,000-square-foot manufacturing facility for electric, wing-in-ground effect (WIG) seagliders in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
This new facility will handle end-to-end production for Regent's 12-passenger Viceroy and autonomous military Squire models, and is expected to create hundreds of jobs.
Regent's seagliders are maritime vessels designed for high-speed (up to 180 mph) transport over water, with crewed testing planned for this year and significant customer interest from global airline and ferry operators, as well as the U.S. Marine Corps.

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Regent Craft, the Rhode Island-based developer of electric, wing-in-ground effect (WIG) seaglider vessels, said Tuesday that it completed the facility that will anchor its global manufacturing activities.

The 255,000-square-foot site at 1 Seaglider Way in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, will handle end-to-end production for Regent’s 12-passenger Viceroy craft, as well as Squire, its autonomous, hybrid-electric military variant. The company is also developing a 50-100-passenger model, Monarch, that was not mentioned in its news release Tuesday.