No, but regional aviation can be well served by electrification - a jet engine needs to run at a speed it pushed enough air through itself to propel the plane forward, but a turbine feeding a generator that powers a couple electric motors can run at a far more forgiving regime.

As pointed out elsewhere, all it might take is a paradigm shift to unseat the current incumbents.

This isn't really true. Chinese ICE vehicles are also sold worldwide, and Geely has some genuine ICE engineering achievements:

https://www.autoblog.com/news/geely-just-built-one-of-the-mo...