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Air National Guard Trains with Beta's Alia Electric Airplane Prototype
The Air National Guard spent a week training with Beta Technologies' Alia prototype at the Air Dominance Center in Savannah, Georgia.
Beta's Alia prototype is pictured in flight with a fighter jet in the foreground
The Air National Guard spent a week training with Beta's Alia prototype at the Air Dominance Center in Savannah, Georgia. (Photo: Beta Technologies)

Shortly after Beta Technologies’ Alia electric airplane prototype completed its three-month deployment at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida last month, it spent more than a week in Savannah, Georgia, where the U.S. Air National Guard used it for a series of military training exercises, the Vermont-based aircraft developer announced February 12. 

During the weeklong military mission assessment sequence, Beta and the Air National Guard—a military reserve for the U.S. Air Force—jointly conducted an agile combat employment (ACE) and domestic response exercise at the Air Dominance Center, also known as the Savannah Combat Readiness Training Center.