A French aircraft manufacturer since 1990 opens its US home at Scottsdale, Arizona, with a two-seat hybrid eVTOL: the range of a Robinson R22, with the safety a piston helicopter never had.
Oshkosh, Wisconsin. July 23, 2026. 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. While pure-electric eVTOLs stay stuck at 15 to 45 minutes, the JP1's production hybrid powertrain matches the endurance of a Robinson R22. 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 Montélimar, 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-seat piston helicopter. It flies far safer.
Priced at $365K, the JP1 lands at or below a new Robinson R22. 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 at dta-aircraft.com.
DTA has been designing and building aircraft in Montélimar, France since 1990, primarily gyroplanes and trikes, with 595+ machines flying across 33+ countries and 300,000+ cumulated flight hours. Its new aircraft, the JP1, is a two-seat hybrid-electric personal eVTOL: eight rotors, a whole-airframe ballistic parachute, and two real hours of flight. Designed in France. Produced in the USA. US home at Scottsdale, Arizona. Priced at $365K, on a Light Sport Aircraft certification path under MOSAIC.
Théo Parant, Co-founder & CEO, DTA Americas
theo@dta-aircraft.com · dta-aircraft.com
DTA Aircraft at Jet Aviation, 14650 North Airport Drive, Scottsdale, AZ 85260