STORY: :: June 3, 2025
:: New York
:: This is the first time a passenger-carrying electric airplane has landed at a New York airport
:: Kyle Clark, Founder and CEO, Beta Technologies
“So this is a 100% electric airplane that just flew from East Hampton to JFK with passengers on it, which was a first for the New York Port Authority, for the New York area, and we covered 70 odd nautical miles in 35 minutes.”
:: Beta Technologies’ flight showcases the quiet, low-cost potential of electric air travel
“The most transformative thing is that you drastically reduce the cost of flying. Charging this thing up and flying out here cost us about $8 in fuel, right? Of course, you have to pay for the pilot, gotta pay for airplane, but fundamentally, it’s way less expensive. It’s quieter, so the communities are happier. It’s a simpler aircraft, so you’re quiet, you’re accessible, and people love flying it. If you asked the passengers how they liked it, we could talk to each other the whole time. There’s no propeller in front of you, there’s no jet engine. It’s just a quiet whooshing across the plane.”
The flight to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport flew 45 minutes with a pilot and four people, they said in a statement.
Transportation companies, including airlines, are looking to develop services using electric battery-powered aircraft that can take off and land vertically to ferry travelers for short city trips, allowing them to beat traffic.
In October, the Federal Aviation Administration finalized comprehensive training and pilot certification rules for flying air taxis, calling it “the final piece in the puzzle for safely introducing these aircraft in the near term.”
In the same month, Beta raised $318 million in equity capital to fund production, certification, and commercialization of electric aircraft, bringing its total raised value to more than $1 billion.
The Vermont-based company was founded in 2017.
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