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Eviation Says Alice Prototype Will Start Flight Tests in 2021
Flight testing of the all-electric Alice fixed-wing aircraft was delayed following a fire in the batteries during ground testing in January 2020.
Eviation Aircraft Alice
Eviation Aircraft has made design changes to the earlier technology demonstrator that it unveiled at the Paris Air Show in June 2019. (Photo: Eviation Aircraft)

Eviation Aircraft expects to start testing the prototype of its Alice all-electric aircraft during 2021. Speaking on December 15 at the International Aerospace Innovation Forum organized by Aero Montreal, cofounder and CEO Omer Bar-Yohay said that the prototype features some modifications made to the aircraft since it was unveiled at the last Paris Air Show in June 2019.

The Israel-based company had intended to start flight testing in December 2019. The program was further delayed when a fire broke out in the first prototype's batteries during ground tests on January 22 at Prescott Regional Airport in Arizona.