{"id":14582,"date":"2024-12-15T23:37:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T05:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14582"},"modified":"2024-12-15T23:38:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T05:38:09","slug":"mission-next-gen-aircraft-announces-technical-demonstrator-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14582","title":{"rendered":"Mission Next Gen Aircraft announces technical demonstrator program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Story and image from Air New Zealand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>December 12, 2024<\/strong> &#8211; Air New Zealand&#8217;s dream to fly its first electric aircraft around Aotearoa is a step closer today with the announcement it will fly a battery-electric aircraft in a technical demonstrator programme based in Hamilton and Wellington from April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The ALIA CX300 aircraft, manufactured in the US by partner BETA Technologies, will allow the airline to understand how this new technology performs in New Zealand before the battery-electric commercial aircraft arrives in 2026 to fly cargo between Wellington and Blenheim.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement brings an ALIA aircraft to Aotearoa one year earlier than the airline&#8217;s commercial cargo services between Wellington and Blenheim begin. Having the aircraft type here before commercial services start gives the airline a longer runway to understand how the aircraft will perform in New Zealand, begin pilot and crew familiarisation, and allow ample time to share the technology with New Zealanders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the link to read the full story!<\/strong> -&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.airnewzealandnewsroom.com\/press-release-2024-mission-next-gen-aircraft-announces-technical-demonstrator-programme-with-beta-technologies-aircraft-flying-aotearoa-from-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mission Next Gen Aircraft announces Technical Demonstrator Program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beta Technologies on building electric aircraft | Alia-250 and CX300\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kDyX6zRUDTM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story and image from Air New Zealand December 12, 2024 &#8211; Air New Zealand&#8217;s dream to fly its first electric aircraft around Aotearoa is a step closer today with the announcement it will fly a battery-electric aircraft in a technical demonstrator programme based in Hamilton and Wellington from April 2025. The ALIA CX300 aircraft, manufactured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,10355,13003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-news","category-diversity","category-urban-air-mobility-uam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14584,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14582\/revisions\/14584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}