DTA brings the JP1 to America, the personal hybrid eVTOL that flies for two full hours

At EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, DTA is opening its US chapter, with its American home base at Scottsdale, Arizona. The JP1 is a two-seat, hybrid-electric personal eVTOL that flies for two full hours on a single tank and refuels like a car. This is the difference that stops people at the stand: while pure-electric eVTOLs stay stuck under an hour, the JP1's production hybrid powertrain matches the range of a two-seater helicopter, 180 miles with two people on board and up to 270 miles flown solo. Hybrid is how DTA solved the range problem the electric eVTOL field still has not.

The JP1 did not start as a product. DTA's owner, a former gyroplane pilot, bought the company with a personal idea: build himself a far safer machine, one he could fly straight from the office to his weekly Tuesday lunch with his mother. There was no plan to sell it. The plan was to fly it. Today the idea has grown: why not let a wider public fly it too.

"I left everything in France to open this chapter here. America is where owning your own aircraft still means something. The JP1 was built safety first, and built to be flown and owned by one person. That is the adventure I came to start." Théo Parant, Co-founder & CEO, DTA Americas.

DTA is not a startup. It has been designing and building aircraft in France since 1990, primarily gyroplanes and trikes, with 595+ machines flying across 33+ countries and 300,000+ cumulated flight hours. The JP1 itself has logged 200+ hours of flight testing in France, data that now supports its FAA Light Sport certification path in the US. The aircraft flies. It is not a slideshow.

Safety is the whole point. Eight rotors keep the JP1 flying through up to four propeller failures, an autopilot flies the aircraft while the pilot makes the decisions, and a whole-airframe ballistic parachute is the final layer: if everything fails, the entire aircraft comes down under one canopy. The JP1 does not fly farther or longer than a two-seater helicopter. It flies far safer, and far easier: the autopilot handles the flying, so a helicopter's demanding stick-and-pedal skills are not part of the deal.

Priced at $385,000, the JP1 sits in the same bracket as a new two-seater helicopter. Its width folds from 10 to 8 feet, the US road-legal trailer width, so owners store it at home and tow it like a boat. Under the FAA's new MOSAIC rule (Light Sport provisions effective July 24, 2026), a Sport Pilot can fly it with a passenger after about 20 hours of training, no FAA medical required. DTA is meeting press, pilots, and prospective owners at AirVenture all week, and the US pre-order book is open.