Osprey flight engineer Tech Sgt. Brett McGee sits on the back open ramp of the V-22 and holds the aircraft's .50 caliber gun as the crew flies over a New Mexico training range Oct. 9, 2024, near Cannon Air Force Base. (AP Photo/Tara Copp)

FILE - A V-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft taxi's during a mission in western Iraqi desert, Oct. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, File)

Marine Two, an Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, with Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff aboard, lifts from Soldier Field in Chicago, Aug. 23, 2024.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

FILE - Maj. Barry Moore shows a photo of a V-22 Osprey aircraft at a news conference, July 20, 1992, at Quantico Marine Air Station in Quantico, Va., after an experimental V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft crashed into the Potomac River near the air station. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi, File)

Former Air Force Osprey pilot Brian Luce, left, speaks with museum visitors inside of the Wright Patterson AFB Air Force Museum, Aug. 9, 2024, in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

Former Air Force Osprey pilot Brian Luce poses for a portrait inside of the Wright Patterson AFB Air Force Museum, Aug. 9, 2024, in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

FILE - Wreckage of a U.S. military MV-22 Osprey is seen in shallow waters off Nago, Okinawa, southern Japan, Dec. 14, 2016, after it crash landed. (Yu Nakajima/Kyodo News via AP, File)