Electra's October Manhattan demonstration is the kind of event an AAM scoreboard should record precisely: an identified aircraft, a location, a date and an activity.
It should not sit in the same undifferentiated column as a reservation, a production delivery or recurring passenger service. All can matter; each answers a different question.
A useful operating record would identify the mission and authority, completed activities, operating conditions and source. Where possible, it would also include the denominator: attempted missions, eligible days, cancellations and downtime. Successful flights alone cannot establish dispatch reliability.
Customer evidence deserves its own column. Was the customer paying for the flight, buying an aircraft, funding a demonstration or reserving a future product? Revenue should be identified by activity and period. An acquisition can add revenue without showing that a new aircraft program is earning it.
Orders still have a place. Their terms, cancellation rights and delivery conditions may say something about demand. They should be examined as commitments, rather than discarded or promoted into operations.
The goal is an auditable record that becomes more informative over time. Count what happened, explain its scope and name the next uncertainty. That is a more useful measure of commercialization than letting every announcement count as another step across the same finish line.