We’ve known about N547JX for a while. It’s Joby’s first “conforming” aircraft, a candidate for post TIA “for credit” test flying by FAA pilots, as I understand it.
And for most of its life so far, it’s been showing up in this one spot on the airport that’s inside a hangar.
We also usually get 0 degree heading, 0 speed readings from it. So, its turned on in some capacity and showing up on ADS-B, but not doing much else. It’s indoors.
Last night, however, the SkyZero algorithm decided that it had seen an N547JX flight. We’ve done that before, and those were in the same spot in the hangar, too, so I marked them as ground activity (it was an altitude test). But not this one - this one is out on the Marina apron.
And, it is showing 150 feet altitude and an actual heading.
I went back and checked, and we haven’t seen it in the hangar since May 11th - its been doing ground activity like things out on the apron quite a bit in the last few days (18th, 19th, 20th) followed by this …. well, dare I call it a flight?
It sure looks like one.
Now, its too bad that ADS-B doesn’t tell us who was flying…
SkyZero.io “Flight Planning” subscribers can see the full history here.