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Beta Flies Manufactured Organs in First eIPP Mission

Electric airplane carried United Therapeutics’ organ products

N336MR — The Alia CX300 flies over rolling countryside along the Virginia-Maryland corridor, where Beta Technologies and United Therapeutics conducted the eVTOL Integration Pilot Program’s first operational organ-logistics missions on July 10, 2026.

By Hanneke Weitering • Science & Technology Editor

July 10, 2026

Beta Technologies completed the first operational flights under the FAA’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP) today, carrying manufactured organ products in development by United Therapeutics across a corridor of four airports in Virginia and Maryland.

This inaugural eIPP campaign involved the company’s Alia CX300 electric airplane, a conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) version of the Alia 250 eVTOL that Beta is also working with the FAA to certify. Beta expects to have the CX300 model certified by year-end, followed by the eVTOL version about 12 months later.

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