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First Electric Flight Test at Amazon Air

Beta Technologies has conducted the first flight test of an electric aircraft at Amazon facilities.

Thom Patterson

Friday, June 24, 2022 at 11:45 AM ET

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Beta Technologies prototype electric aircraft flew Thursday from KCVG to KILN. [Courtesy: Beta Technologies]

Key Takeaways:

Beta Technologies has conducted the first flight test of an electric aircraft at facilities of online retail giant Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) .

Beta’s Alia electric prototype demonstrator departed from Amazon Air’s “superhub” at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (KCVG) on Thursday and flew approximately 60 nautical miles to the company’s sorting hub at Wilmington Air Park (KILN) outside Dayton, Ohio.

Thom Patterson

Thom is a former senior editor for FLYING. Previously, his freelance reporting appeared in aviation industry magazines. Thom also spent three decades as a TV and digital journalist at CNN’s bureaus in Washington and Atlanta, eventually specializing in aviation. He has reported from air shows in Oshkosh, Farnborough and Paris. Follow Thom on Twitter @thompatterson.