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| Commitments and Contingencies | Commitments and Contingencies Contingencies
As of March 31, 2026, the Company had $11.8 million of unconditional purchase obligations with remaining terms in excess of one year. These obligations primarily relate to the Company’s purchase agreements for certain aircraft parts through 2028.
The Company has contractual relationships with various aircraft operators to provide aircraft service for the Blade chartered flights. Under these capacity purchase agreements (“CPAs”), the Company pays the operator contractually agreed fees (carrier costs) for operating these flights. The fees are generally based on fixed hourly rates for flight time multiplied by hours flown. Under these CPAs, the Company is also responsible for landing fees and other costs, which are either passed through by the operator to the Company without any markup or directly incurred by the Company.
As of March 31, 2026 the Company has remaining unfulfilled obligations under agreements with various aircraft operators to provide aircraft service. The remaining unfulfilled obligation includes amounts within operating lease liability related to aircraft leases embedded within its capacity purchase agreements as included in the operating right-of-use asset and lease liability.
These future unfulfilled obligations were as follows:
The Company is subject to claims and assessments from time to time in the ordinary course of business. Accruals for litigation and contingencies are reflected in the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements based on management’s assessment, including the advice of legal counsel, of the expected outcome of litigation or other dispute resolution proceedings and/or the expected resolution of contingencies. Liabilities for estimated losses are accrued if the potential losses from any claims or legal proceedings are considered probable and the amounts can be reasonably estimated. Significant judgment is required in both the determination of probability of loss and the determination as to whether the amount can be reasonably estimated. Accruals are based only on information available at the time of the assessment due to the uncertain nature of such matters. As additional information becomes available, management reassesses potential liabilities related to pending claims and litigation and may revise its previous estimates, which could materially affect the Company’s condensed consolidated results of operations in a given period. As of March 31, 2026, and December 31, 2025, the Company was not involved in any material legal proceedings except as noted below:
Archer Litigation
On November 18, 2025, we filed a complaint in the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Santa Cruz against Archer Aviation, Inc. (“Archer”) and George Kivork alleging, among other things, breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets, and interference with contract and prospective economic advantage related to the improper acquisition, retention, and use of our confidential and proprietary business information and trade secrets. The complaint requests damages, disgorgement and restitution, injunctive relief, and attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses. This lawsuit was removed to the United States District Court, Northern District of California, where it remains pending. On January 23, 2026, Archer and Mr. Kivork filed motions to dismiss the complaint, and we filed our opposition to the motion to dismiss on February 13, 2026. On March 9, 2026, Archer filed counterclaims against us alleging false advertising and unfair competition. We filed a motion to dismiss Archer’s counterclaims on April 6, 2026, and Archer filed an opposition on April 20, 2026. We intend to aggressively pursue our claims against Archer and vigorously defend against Archer’s counterclaims.
On March 10, 2026, Archer filed a Section 337 complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking an Exclusion Order to block Joby from importing electric aircraft, power systems, and related components into the United States that allegedly infringe 5 Archer patents. We intend to aggressively defend against Archer’s claims.
Indemnifications
In the normal course of business, the Company enters into contracts and agreements that contain a variety of representations and warranties and provide for general indemnifications. The Company’s exposure under these agreements
is unknown because it involves claims that may be made against the Company in the future, but that have not yet been made. To date, the Company has not paid any claims or been required to defend any action related to its indemnification obligations. However, the Company may record charges in the future as a result of these indemnification obligations. The Company has indemnified its Board of Directors and officers, to the extent legally permissible, against all liabilities reasonably incurred in connection with any action in which such individual may be involved by reason of such individual being or having been a director or officer, other than liabilities arising from willful misconduct of the individual. The Company currently has directors’ and officers’ insurance. The Company did not record any liabilities in connection with these possible obligations as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025.
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