{"id":36779,"date":"2026-10-05T20:28:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=36779"},"modified":"2026-10-05T20:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:30:01","slug":"kdot-partners-with-kansas-aviation-museum-to-host-jobys-electric-skies-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/aam-uam\/kdot-partners-with-kansas-aviation-museum-to-host-jobys-electric-skies-tour\/%20","title":{"rendered":"KDOT Partners with Kansas Aviation Museum to Host Joby\u2019s Electric Skies Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Photo above &#8211; Ray Seif, Wichita Mayor Lily Wu and Textron VP of Global Sales and Strategy, Special Missions and Defense, Bob Gibbs.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/825279895_1086172290981840_5424941575800767225_n-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36782\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4992888417882142;width:283px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/825279895_1086172290981840_5424941575800767225_n-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/825279895_1086172290981840_5424941575800767225_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/825279895_1086172290981840_5424941575800767225_n-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/825279895_1086172290981840_5424941575800767225_n.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>At the simulator are Mayor Wu and Joby Aviation\u2019s Earl Lawrence.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sept 28th, the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT), Division of Aviation partnered with Joby Aviation and the Kansas Aviation Museum to host a stop along Joby\u2019s Electric Skies tour across the US. The Kansas stop was held at the Kansas Aviation Museum, located at McConnell AFB.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"621\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ray-Seif-and-Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36781\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.1250354408846044;width:236px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ray-Seif-and-Bill.jpg 621w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ray-Seif-and-Bill-300x267.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>W.K. Bergman, left and Ray Seif.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joby Aviation flew a Cessna Caravan piloted by Joby&#8217;s XWing SuperPilot autonomous platform. Ray Seif, KDOT, Director of Aviation, shared with the State Aviation Journal that Kansas was one of the stops along Joby&#8217;s multi state Electric Skies tour across the country, showcasing the next wave of aviation automation technology. \u201cLanding at the Air Capital of the World was especially meaningful since this is the birthplace of the Cessna Caravan. We were treated to a visit from the original Cessna Caravan test pilot W.K. &#8220;Bill&#8221; Bergman, who took the Caravan on its first flight out of McConnell AFB on December 9, 1982,\u201d noted Seif.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/825271096_1504509371704783_6479955114992157832_n-edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/825271096_1504509371704783_6479955114992157832_n-edit.jpg 800w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/825271096_1504509371704783_6479955114992157832_n-edit-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A mix of city\/county, state, federal, and industry stakeholders attended.&nbsp;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo above &#8211; Ray Seif, Wichita Mayor Lily Wu and Textron VP of Global Sales and Strategy, Special Missions and Defense, Bob Gibbs. On Sept 28th, the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT), Division of Aviation partnered with Joby Aviation and the Kansas Aviation Museum to host a stop along Joby\u2019s Electric Skies tour across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[142,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aam-uam","category-kansas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/828363938_1794470524928184_8402950539913027729-edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36784,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36779\/revisions\/36784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}