Version 2026-09-C · in force from September 20, 2026
The Deposit reserves a production position for one (1) DTA JP1 and secures a chassis number, allocated by DTA when the Deposit clears, in the order deposits clear. It transfers no title and does not oblige the Purchaser to buy. DTA is bound only once the Deposit clears. DTA Americas Inc., a Delaware corporation, is the Seller and the manufacturer of record for aircraft delivered in the United States. The JP1 is designed by the DTA Aircraft group (Vichar SAS, France), building aircraft since 1990, and assembled in the United States. Founder Pre-Order chassis numbers run 26 to 50; Pre-Order from 51.
2. Certification is the objective, and it is not yet granted. DTA is pursuing acceptance of the JP1 in the light-sport category under the FAA MOSAIC framework, and its engineering, flight test and compliance programme is built for that purpose. As of today the JP1 holds no FAA or other civil aviation approval, and DTA cannot promise that it will obtain one or when. The Purchaser reserves on that basis. Specification, performance figures, weights and equipment are preliminary, given for information only, form no part of this Agreement, and are fixed only in the Purchase Agreement.
3. What it will take to fly it. The JP1 is on a light-sport path under MOSAIC, and the exact category the FAA will assign is still in discussion with the agency. The training a pilot will complete, and the certificate and rating that go with it, follow from that decision. So the qualification required to fly the JP1 is not settled today, and it depends on FAA rulemaking outside DTA’s control. DTA follows the rulemaking closely and will tell the Purchaser what applies as soon as the position is fixed. Owning a JP1 does not require the Purchaser to be a pilot: the Purchase Agreement sets out who may fly it and what training that pilot completes.
4. Price. The price in your order confirmation applies. A Founder Pre-Order price is held firm until the Purchase Agreement issues and is unaffected by any later increase in the list price. A Pre-Order price is DTA’s list price in effect on the Effective Date and may change before the Purchase Agreement issues; the price that applies is the one in effect when that Agreement is issued. DTA will give the Purchaser written notice of any change affecting this reservation, and the Purchaser is then free to keep the reservation at the new price or to cancel under Section 5, in which case the Refundable Balance is returned and the Reservation Fee stays with DTA. Options, taxes, registration, insurance, delivery and any training not stated in your order confirmation are excluded.
5. What is refundable and what is not. The Reservation Fee is not refundable. It is the price of what DTA does on receipt: allocating and recording the chassis number, opening and administering the reservation file, and holding that position off the market from that date. It is earned when DTA begins to perform those services, and is consideration for them, not a charge for cancelling and not a pre-estimate of any loss. The Refundable Balance is refundable, in the cases set out in these Terms. Both are credited in full against the price at delivery. The Purchaser may cancel at any time, for any reason, on written notice.
6. How the money is held. Deposits sit in an account dedicated to reservations and separate from DTA’s operating account, and DTA undertakes to hold there at all times at least the total of outstanding Refundable Balances. Not escrow, not held in trust. They are an unsecured obligation of DTA, unprotected against its insolvency. The Reservation Fee is outside this Section.
7. Conversion to a firm order. When a delivery position opens, DTA issues the Aircraft Purchase Agreement, carrying the full commercial terms including specification, delivery, transfer of risk, retention of title, late payment interest, warranty and acceptance. The Purchaser has thirty (30) days to sign, then fifteen (15) more after a written reminder. Failing to sign within that period is treated as a cancellation by the Purchaser under Section 5, and DTA may release the position. The table below ceases to apply on execution of the Purchase Agreement, which governs from then, including on default.
8. Payment. Indicative, and fixed in the Purchase Agreement: (i) the Deposit, credited in full; (ii) sixty percent (60%) of the price one month before production starts; (iii) the balance and all taxes and charges before delivery. Delay caused by late payment does not count toward Section 9.
9. Delivery estimate, and exit on delay. The estimated window in your order confirmation is an estimate, not a date; none is guaranteed. Delivery depends on completing development and obtaining the applicable approvals. If DTA has not tendered delivery eighteen (18) months after the end of that window, the Purchaser may exit by written notice and recover the Refundable Balance. Time in force majeure does not count. Force majeure means an event beyond DTA’s reasonable control, including act of God, weather, fire, flood, epidemic, war, terrorism, civil unrest, strike, any act, omission or delay of a government or regulatory authority including in rulemaking or certification, sanctions, export controls, shortage or interruption in the supply of materials, components or energy, failure of a supplier for any of those reasons, and interruption of transport or information systems; DTA gives written notice of any it relies on. DTA may change the aircraft, its equipment and its specification at any time without notice, and no such change gives any right to a refund or a price reduction beyond the Purchaser’s right to cancel under Section 5.
10. Cancellation by DTA. DTA may cancel by written notice where an event outside its control substantially changes the conditions or cost of building the aircraft, so that price or lead time falls outside what this Agreement provides. The table below then applies as for a programme that does not proceed. DTA may not use this Section to release a position and re-sell it higher within twelve (12) months.
11. Death or permanent incapacity. On written proof, the estate may take over the reservation free of charge, keeping price and chassis number, or transfer it, with no transfer fee, to any person who meets Section 15 and to whom DTA consents under Section 12, or cancel and receive the Refundable Balance within thirty (30) days.
12. Transfer of the reservation. The reservation may be transferred once, to a named third party, with DTA’s written consent and payment of a $1,000 transfer fee, waived where the estate transfers under Section 11, the transferee meeting this Section and Section 15. DTA may instead take the position back within fifteen (15) days of being notified of a proposed transfer, repaying what the Purchaser paid less the Reservation Fee. The Deposit follows the position. The reservation may not be advertised for sale publicly, at auction or on any marketplace.
13. Getting a refund, and chargebacks. Refunds are requested by email to contact@dta-aircraft.com, with proof of identity and payee details. The thirty (30) day period below runs from receipt of a complete request. Payment is in US dollars, to the Purchaser named in your order confirmation only, by the original channel where possible, without interest, net of intermediary bank charges, and may be held until screening clears. The Purchaser uses this procedure, and allows DTA thirty (30) days to answer, before opening a chargeback or payment dispute. Where one is opened and is resolved in DTA’s favour, DTA may recover the fees its bank or payment provider charges on it.
14. Taxes. Prices exclude tax. Taxes, duties, registration and any other public charge are the Purchaser’s and are calculated at delivery under the Purchase Agreement. The place of delivery may itself create a tax liability; take independent advice before agreeing one. DTA gives no tax advice.
15. No securities offering, no secondary market, and who may buy. This Agreement is not an investment contract, a security or an offering of securities, and grants no equity, ownership, profit participation or revenue share in DTA Americas Inc. or any affiliate. DTA makes no representation that a reservation, chassis number or aircraft will hold or gain value, and neither operates nor supports any market in reservations. The Purchaser reserves for its own use, not to resell at a profit, and represents being at least 18, not subject to US sanctions or on any restricted party list, not acting for such a person, and not exporting the aircraft in breach of US export control or sanctions law. DTA may screen identity, beneficial ownership and sanctions at any time and may decline or terminate a reservation that fails, returning the Refundable Balance and retaining the Reservation Fee. Where sanctions law requires funds to be blocked rather than returned, DTA complies with that law.
16. No warranty at this stage, and limits on liability. Any aircraft warranty will sit in the Purchase Agreement and run from delivery. This Agreement gives no warranty, and to the fullest extent permitted by law DTA disclaims all implied warranties including merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Brochures, website, press coverage and statements at exhibitions are promotional, not warranties. DTA’s total liability is limited to the Deposit actually received, with no liability for indirect, incidental, special, punitive or consequential damages, including loss of profit, use or opportunity, or costs incurred in anticipation of delivery. Nothing excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded. DTA is not liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control.
17. Personal data. DTA collects the information you give when reserving to manage the reservation, meet its legal obligations including screening, and communicate about the JP1 program. It is not sold, and is shared only with DTA affiliates, any training provider and service providers acting on DTA’s instructions. Records are kept seven (7) years. Requests to contact@dta-aircraft.com.
18. Disputes: arbitration, and waiver of class actions. The parties will try in good faith for thirty (30) days from written notice. Failing that, binding arbitration administered by the AAA under its Commercial Rules, or its Consumer Arbitration Rules where those apply, one arbitrator, seated in Phoenix, Arizona, award enforceable in any competent court. Each party waives trial by jury and any class, collective or representative action, individual small claims actions excepted. The Purchaser may opt out by written notice within thirty (30) days of the Effective Date, without affecting anything else.
19. This document is the whole agreement. This Agreement is these Pre-Order Terms, the table below and your order confirmation, and nothing else. It is the entire agreement between the parties on the reservation and supersedes any prior or contemporaneous statement, quotation, brochure, specification sheet, website page or representation, oral or written. No document published elsewhere, and no later version of any published terms, applies to this reservation. Your order confirmation prevails on price, route, amounts and chassis number. Amendment only in writing signed by both parties. Superseded by the Purchase Agreement on execution. Delaware law governs, except the arbitration agreement, governed by the Federal Arbitration Act. Notices to contact@dta-aircraft.com, and to the Purchaser at the addresses given when reserving. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest stands.
20. How a reservation is made on this website. The pre-order page is an invitation to make a reservation request, not an offer. A reservation is made when (a) you accept these Terms and pay, (b) the payment is authorised and clears, and (c) DTA sends a written confirmation allocating a chassis number. The reservation is formed on that confirmation, not on payment. Until then DTA may decline the request and return the full amount, in particular if the Founder Pre-Order allocation has closed, if the screening under Section 15 is not satisfied, or if a price or availability was displayed in error. Payments are processed by a third party payment processor; DTA does not store card details.
21. Your acceptance of these Terms, and how it is recorded. You accept these Terms before payment. The acceptance box is not pre-ticked and the reservation cannot be completed without it. DTA records, for each reservation, the version number of the Terms displayed, the date and time in UTC, the text accepted, and the payment reference. DTA keeps that record, and a copy of the accepted version of these Terms, for seven (7) years, and emails you the accepted version with your confirmation. That record is the evidence of your acceptance.
22. Versions, and changes to these Terms. These Terms carry the version number shown at the top of this page. The version that applies to your reservation is the one in force when your reservation is confirmed, and it keeps applying to that reservation after this page changes. DTA may change these Terms for future reservations at any time. Changing a reservation already made requires a written amendment signed by both parties, under Section 19.
23. How this page works with the signed Pre-Order Agreement. Sections 1 to 19 of this page are word for word the Pre-Order Terms printed on the Pre-Order Agreement signed on paper (rev. 09/2026 v4.1). Sections 20 to 23 apply only to reservations made on this website. If you signed a paper Pre-Order Agreement, the copy handed to you prevails for you in the event of any difference with this page, and the signed front page prevails on price, route, amounts and chassis number. If you reserved online and signed nothing on paper, this page and your confirmation email are the whole agreement for your reservation.
The Refundable Balance comes back in every case below, within thirty (30) days of a complete request under Section 13, and in the other cases set out in these Terms. The Reservation Fee stays with DTA.
DTA Americas Inc. · JP1 Pre-Order Terms · version 2026-09-C