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A single-seat flying machine just went up for pre-order, and you don’t need a pilot’s license to fly it.

On October 21, 2021, Swedish aviation startup Jetson pulled back the curtain on the Jetson ONE, an ultralight electric VTOL built for one person and priced for recreational flying rather than airline convenience. The official launch video shows co-founder and CTO Tomasz Patan strapped into the aircraft’s open frame, lifting off, banking, and setting back down in footage the company is using to open customer reservations. Jetson was founded in 2017 by Patan and Peter Ternström with a stated goal that sounds almost too simple: “make the skies available for everyone.”

• Jetson officially launched the ONE on October 21, 2021, with CTO Tomasz Patan flying the aircraft himself in the debut footage.
• At roughly 86 kg (about 190 lbs) empty, the ONE qualifies as an ultralight under FAA Part 103, meaning U.S. pilots can fly it without a pilot’s license.
• The aircraft tops out at a software-limited 102 km/h (63 mph) with 15 to 20 minutes of flight time per charge, and Jetson has opened reservations with deliveries targeted for 2022.

Launch Video Details Revealed

The footage that accompanied the announcement isn’t a rendering or a wind-tunnel mockup — it’s Patan himself flying the aircraft outdoors, climbing, hovering, and landing under his own control. That distinction matters for a category that’s produced plenty of eVTOL concept videos over the years with no human ever leaving the ground. Jetson built its launch around proof rather than promise, putting its own CTO in the seat to show the ONE is a flying vehicle today, not a rendering promising something years out.

Inside the Airframe

The Jetson ONE runs on a lightweight space-frame chassis made from aluminum and carbon fiber, with eight electric motors mounted across four arms in a coaxial multicopter layout — two motors stacked per arm rather than eight separate rotors spread wide. A pilot flies it with a 3-axis joystick and a throttle lever, with triple-redundant flight computers handling stabilization behind the scenes.

“Our mission is to make the skies available for everyone with our safe personal electric aerial vehicle.”

Built-In Redundancy for a One-Person Aircraft

Because there’s no second pilot and no cabin to buffer a hard landing, Jetson leaned on redundancy rather than size. The eight-motor coaxial setup is designed so the aircraft stays flyable even if a single motor fails outright, and a rapid-deployment ballistic parachute is built in as a last resort. Those two systems are the closest thing the ONE has to airbags, and they’re a big part of why Jetson is comfortable marketing this as a recreational aircraft rather than an experimental one.

Reservations Open, Deliveries Targeted for 2022

Alongside the launch video, Jetson opened customer reservations for the ONE, which is sold as a home-assembly kit rather than a factory-delivered aircraft. Deliveries are targeted to begin in 2022, putting Jetson in the same rough timeline as other electric aviation upstarts racing to get a personal aircraft into actual customers’ garages rather than just onto a spec sheet. For anyone who’s watched cockpit footage from military jets or general-aviation flights and wondered when personal flight would get simpler, the ONE is Jetson’s answer: no runway, no license, no crew — just a joystick and a charge.

Whether Jetson can actually hit that 2022 delivery window is the real test now. Reservation deposits are one thing; shipping a home-assembly ultralight VTOL to paying customers at scale, with the FAA’s Part 103 rules still governing exactly how and where it can be flown, is another. Patan’s own flight in the launch video was the easy part — the next milestone worth watching is the first delivered unit leaving someone’s driveway.