As part of his plea agreement, Peter Tripp Akemann agreed to pay full restitution of just over $65,000 to the government of Quebec, which supplied the plane, and an aircraft repair company that handled the necessary fixes.

The defendant has agreed to pay more than $65,000 in restitution and faces up to a year in federal prison, prosecutors said.

A drone that authorities say was flying in restricted airspace on Jan. 9 put a fist-sized hole in the wing of a Super Scooper, taking it out of service.

A Culver City man has agreed to plead guilty to flying a drone that crashed into a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft, grounding it in the midst of the devastating Palisades Fire​, federal prosecutors announced Friday.

Former president of Skydance Interactive Peter Akemann pleaded guilty today to recklessly operating a drone that crashed into and damaged a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft battling the Palisades Fire last month.