At a tiny airport nestled in the shadow of the Adirondack Mountains along Lake Champlain and the New York-Vermont border, few would suspect a close-knit team of pilots, engineers, managers, and technicians are working together to bring aviation into the electric age.
For the past few years, their small, privately held company, called Beta Technologies, has been quietly developing a new kind of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft from their headquarters in Burlington, Vermont, and a flight test facility at New York’s Plattsburgh International Airport (KPBG).
