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Beta Makes Second Cross-Country eVTOL Flight as Charging Infrastructure Expands
Beta Technologies, which is building a network of charging stations for electric aircraft across the U.S., recently completed a cross-country trip with its prototype eVTOL aircraft.
Beta's Alia 250 prototype is pictured in flight, as seen from the cockpit of a Cessna Caravan chase plane during the eVTOL aircraft's cross-country flight from Plattsburgh, New York to Louisville, Kentucky.
Beta's Alia 250 prototype is pictured in flight, as seen from the cockpit of a Cessna Caravan chase plane during the eVTOL aircraft's cross-country flight from Plattsburgh, New York to Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo: Beta Technologies)

While Beta Technologies works to build out its network of charging stations throughout the U.S., the company’s all-electric Alia 250 eVTOL aircraft has been flying across the country for a series of demonstration flights.

Most recently, the eVTOL developer sent its Alia aircraft on a five-day journey across the eastern half of the U.S. The 876-mile (762 nm) mission began on November 30 in Plattsburgh, New York—about 20 miles northwest of the company’s headquarters in Burlington, Vermont—and ended in Louisville, Kentucky.