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Group Photo at the HADES Prototype Rollout

Group photograph of many people posing in front of a white business jet inside a large aircraft hangar

What This Image Shows​

A group photograph inside a large hangar: a crowd of people posed in front of a white Bombardier business jet, with rows of empty black chairs in the foreground and a large screen displaying an aerial view of an aircraft at the right.

The framing text reads: "Tail Number N808LP. A group shot in front of the first HADES prototype aircraft at the Bombardier Defense facility in Wichita, Kansas, today. Bombardier. November 25, 2024."

This is the public rollout of the first HADES airframe, and it is useful for two reasons. It fixes a date -- late November 2024 -- for when the first prototype was presented, which is nine and a half months before September 10, 2025. And it shows the aircraft in the same plain white livery as N1098L, undercutting the mental image of a grey, sensor-covered machine that circulated with the drone-launch claim.

The scale of the gathering also says something plain: this is an openly announced defence programme with a public rollout, photographed and captioned by the manufacturer, not a covert asset.

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