Usually press release statements on certification dates are optimistic. This one says 2017. I'd guess 2018 earliest. Supposedly 70 are on order with Lady Gaga and Michael Bloomberg both on the order list (has anyone ever
seen Lady Gaga and Michael Bloomberg together?). Probably many of the rest are corporate VIP transport or options.
It's a powered-lift rating, and the only way to get that now is flying the V-22 in the U.S. Marine Corps or the U.S. Air Force (soon the JMSDF or the IDF), or working for AW.
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