Stavatti and loathing in Las Vegas: Dark Secrets Inside Stavatti Grove

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On May 9th, 2025, Stavatti posted on their public X account informing the public of their participation in an aerospace industry conference dubbed the Air Dominance Summit, hosted in Henderson, NV (a Las Vegas suburb) on May 13th and 14th. They casually invite folks on X to join them at the event. Little did they know, I would take their invitation literally.

During the course of my 2+ years of Stavatti research, I have found only lukewarm participation by Stavatti in aerospace industry events such as this. This presented a golden opportunity for myself to see Stavatti “in the wild” and gain valuable information for my research and writing. I booked myself a room at the same hotel hosting the conference and made the 14+ hour journey to Henderson on May 12. Little did I know how close to Stavatti I would actually get.

Upon arrival, I checked into my room and enjoyed a complimentary beer. I walked around and oriented myself to the hotel, scoped the place out and within 15 minutes spotted Stavatti CEO Chris Beskar dining at one of the hotel’s public restaurants, Rick’s Cafe. He was dining with 2 other men and I did not immediately recognize their faces. It hadn’t taken long to confirm that not only had Stavatti paid thousands of USD to sponsor the event but had actually bothered to show up. For the most part, the hotel in the late evening seemed mostly empty with just a few evening stragglers. I had been through a long journey with little sleep over the past 36 hours and decided to retire to bed around 9:30pm PDT.

That night I had a deep and vivid dream. I dreamt that, on the following day, I was in the hotel and Beskar managed to recognize me and we struck up a lively conversation. The dream wasn't sexual and I am sure I had the dream because Stavatti and the conference were taking up my waking thoughts so naturally they would also invade my dreams. My interpretation of the dream is that I should be extra careful not to reveal myself. If I were David Wilcock, my interpretation would be that Beskar is my gay lover who was sent back in time by the Alliance in order to defeat the Deep State.

The next morning I went to Rick’s Cafe around 7am PDT for breakfast. The hotel still seemed mostly empty. I didn’t mind the peace and tranquility but it wasn't the type of setting that gave off "millions of $ of aerospace deals" vibes. David Wilcock had told his YouTube audience that this was a big event for Stavatti, but breakfast had fewer people than the average Starbucks. I had been eating at a table by myself for perhaps 20 minutes when, in a dazzling incidence of synchronicity, a man and his companion sat at the table directly next to mine…

I did not expect David Wilcock to be at this event, much less sit right next to me at breakfast. David knows little about the aerospace industry and is better left to tasks which he can perform such as scribbling notes during Stavatti board meetings. Nevertheless, here he was in the flesh and my first thought was that my foreboding dream warning of revealing myself would be put to the test. I suspect that David and Stavatti’s financial desperation has reached the point where he is insisting to Chris Beskar that he attend such events as he believes his “star power” could potentially help Stavatti close a business deal which they both desperately need. David was accompanied by another man at his table who I immediately recognized as Stavatti’s Dimitriy Giebeler. I hung around for 15 minutes, ate my toast and couldn’t help but overhear their conversation and small talk (I could have recorded audio, but didn’t as I wasn’t a participant in the conversation and recording it would be a violation of privacy). Their discussion was trivial and unrelated to Stavatti anyway. It is worth pointing out that David’s personality and demeanor in real life seem identical to his YouTube personality. I could have hung around longer but I didn’t want to draw attention (remember my dream?). David will probably describe this incident as an assassination attempt but he came in and sat next to me, not the other way around.

The conference paused for lunch at half past noon. I walked past the ballroom where lunch was held and noticed a lot of people (over 100), particularly officers in formal dress uniform. It seems that many of the attendees were perhaps not guests of the hotel. Attendees were wearing blue Boeing lanyards around their necks (Boeing was the lead sponsor of the event).

That evening I spotted Chris Beskar again, this time dining at Marssa, another one of the public restaurants at the hotel. He was dining with Dimitriy Giebeler and a man who I did not immediately identify. David Wilcock was strangely absent.

On Wednesday morning I went to Rick’s Cafe for breakfast again. I was not so lucky this time and there was no sign of Beskar, Wilcock or Giebeler.

Stavatti's presentation at the Air Dominance Summit took place at 1pm PDT after lunch. The original PDF agenda does not contain their presentation, indicating that Stavatti sponsored the event "at the last minute" and after this agenda was produced.

The doors to the ballroom were closed and in the interest of privacy I did not record the presentation audio. I stood outside a closed door and overheard Chris Beskar's presentation through the door while taking notes in a general sense (note: security for the event was lax and I probably could have just walked in and sat down but I did not cross that line as I did not purchase admission).

1. Stavatti's presentation began with an overview of their aircraft designs with special emphasis on the SM-39;

2. Beskar mentioned that the SM-39 has speeds ranging from 80kn to Mach 4.2;

3. Beskar discussed the market ecosystem for fighter aircraft, bemoaning industry consolidation while pointing out that there used to be substantially greater vendor diversity in the military aircraft industry;

4. Beskar talked about possibly using GE engines in Stavatti aircraft and briefly discussed next-generation materials technology;

5. Beskar discussed aspects of Stavatti's aircraft including radar, lidar, sensors, cockpit design, HUD (heads-up display) technology and weapons including the allegation that Stavatti's SM-39 will utilize a gas-dynamic laser weapon;

6. Beskar discussed EWAR (electronic warfare) including the notion that Stavatti may possibly utilize EWAR systems from Lockheed Martin;

7. Chris Beskar briefly discussed Stavatti's use of CFD (computational fluid dynamics);

8. Beskar described Stavatti's aircraft as "fully engineered designs";

9. Beskar pointed out that Stavatti's SM-39, as advertised to the public, is only their 2014 design and implied that they have since developed an updated design that is not available to the public;

10. Beskar advertised the SM-39 as having a significant competitive advantage in the form a long 50-75 year lifespan;

11. Beskar detailed Stavatti's marketing materials on the SM-39 including performance charts, flight envelope and an alleged flight range of up to 3,000nm (note: this number may be inaccurate, this is my best guess hearing through a closed door);

12. Stavatti provided their contact info and informed the audience that they are "easy to reach."

At the end of Stavatti's presentation, they were allowed only one question from the audience. The question that was posed to them was an inquiry as to when prototypes would be available. Beskar responded, saying an SM-39 prototype would be available in 2 years and an SM-31 prototype would be available by March 2026. After Beskar's answer, he was informed by conference staff that his time was up and that the agenda needed to proceed to the next item. Stavatti received only modest applause, perhaps because much of the audience was involved with their competitors and naturally resent them.

I was concerned that even standing outside the ballroom in a public hotel corridor and taking handwritten notes might violate Stavatti’s reasonable expectation of privacy. However, David Wilcock helped me out in this regard. During David’s YouTube livestream on May 18, 2025, David publicly presented for the audience video he captured of the presentation inside the ballroom. Because David has publicized the presentation on YT, Stavatti no longer has any reasonable expectation of privacy regarding it. Their public release of the presentation also makes my handwritten notes partially redundant. Thanks, David!

Toward the end of the video, David Wilcock (who is the cameraman) pans the camera and shows the very door outside of which I was taking notes.

Immediately after Stavatti's presentation (shortly after 1:30pm PDT), Chris Beskar left the ballroom and could be seen loitering in the hotel’s public lobby with his mobile device. Eventually he sat down in the lobby and had a conversation with Dimitriy Giebeler. It seems Beskar decided to skip the rest of the conference (note: Stavatti spent thousands of dollars to sponsor the event).

At 2:45pm PDT, a little over an hour after the Stavatti presentation ended, I spotted Wilcock, Beskar and a man who is best described as “hobo Santa Claus” conversing outdoors in the public hotel courtyard named "Lotus Court." I took pictures and video but did not record audio as I was not a participant in the conversation. The hobo Santa Claus was having a casual if lively conversation with them and it didn't look like they are closing on any kind of big "aerospace deal." David did mention during his May 18th livestream that some new benefactor was allegedly going to give Stavatti 10 million USD to tide them over for a while. Perhaps Beskar and Wilcock asked Santa for an early Christmas gift?

After their conversation ended, I spotted hobo Santa Claus walking around in the public hotel lobby. The time after their presentation was a prime opportunity to network and sell their products but it seems Beskar and Wilcock would rather waste their time goofing off. Or, perhaps I’m wrong and Stavatti never took this event too seriously to begin with. In any case it seems that Stavatti wasn’t taking advantage even though they probably want people to think they were.

By 5:30pm PDT the conference was over and every trace of it inside the hotel had been removed. There was a new conference that had taken over for a company named "Schedule Validator." It seemed like all of the Air Dominance Summit attendees with blue Boeing lanyards around their necks had vanished.

Around 6:30pm PDT, I did manage to have a discussion with an attendee of the Air Dominance Summit regarding Stavatti. The man described himself only as someone who works in "government." We talked for about five minutes. He had never heard of Stavatti before that day. He described Stavatti's ambitions as "too good to be true." He stated that he had worked many years in his field and detailed years of hard work in order to achieve marginal gains in aircraft performance. He hardly believed Stavatti's advertisement of their aircraft with double digit gains in performance capabilities versus current comparable aircraft.

It is unfortunate I was only able to get an opinion of Stavatti from one attendee. Despite this, I did manage to gauge the event’s reception of Stavatti and Stavatti’s attitude towards the event. There is no indication that this event was a success for Stavatti or that anyone associated took anything tangible away from the event. David Wilcock even admitted during his May 18th livestream that many of the attendees were cold towards Stavatti and sponsorship of the event by an ostensible competitor. Ultimately time will tell if this event has any relevance other than the facts and observations laid out here. Despite baseless rumors of an FBI investigation, Chris Beskar’s alleged CIA history, teams hired by David Wilcock for “protection,” David’s own alleged psychic powers and even allegations that a private investigator has been hired by Stavatti to look into their critics, nothing could stop me from getting closer to Stavatti than even I could have foreseen. I went home satisfied with my findings and knowing that throughout the trip I was undetected and Stavatti had no idea of what was going on.