Aircraft
Cape Air, Eviation Sign LOI Covering 75 Alice Electric Aircraft
Massachusetts-based Cape Air sees a business case for electric aircraft service to “a panoply” of communities.
Program schedules call for the all-electric Eviation Alice to gain certification in 2024. (Image: Eviation)
Program schedules call for the all-electric Eviation Alice to gain certification in 2024. (Image: Eviation)

Massachusetts-based regional airline Cape Air has signed a letter of intent with Eviation Aircraft covering the purchase of 75 all-electric Alice commuter aircraft, the companies said. The contract signing comes nine months after Cape Air chairman Dan Wolf told a gathering at the Vertical Flight Society’s Electric Aircraft Symposium that the Alice could enter service with his airline as early as 2023 on scheduled routes connecting Boston and the Massachusetts communities of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket as well as linking Nantucket with Hyannis. By that time Eviation and Cape Air ostensibly placed an order in 2019 for the nine-seat Alice, but terms remained undisclosed and Wolf expressed some ambivalence about the economic case.