{"id":15348,"date":"2025-10-26T22:27:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15348"},"modified":"2025-10-26T22:32:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:32:34","slug":"air-new-zealand-beta-technologies-team-for-first-tauranga-electric-aircraft-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15348","title":{"rendered":"Air New Zealand &#038; BETA Technologies team for first Tauranga electric aircraft take-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tauranga, New Zealand, October 17, 2025<\/strong> &#8211; The aircraft was manufactured in the United States by global aviation innovator BETA Technologies. It arrived in the country last week and was blessed at a sunrise ceremony in Tauranga. The aircraft is expected to fly to Hamilton Airport later today where it will be based before moving to Wellington Airport for a further two months in December.<\/p>\n<p>The ALIA CX300 has been leased by Air New Zealand for four months for a technical demonstrator programme, which enables the airline, alongside partners and regulators, to learn how the aircraft will perform in New Zealand conditions, and to start pilot and engineering familiarisation.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also an opportunity for New Zealanders to see battery-electric aviation technology up close.<\/p>\n<p>During the aircraft&#8217;s time in Hamilton, Air New Zealand and BETA teams will undertake a programme of flights in a range of conditions and altitudes.\u00a0 In December it will move to Wellington, where it will complete flights between Wellington and Blenheim.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Air New Zealand Goes electric \u26a1\ufe0f The Quiet Revolution Hitting the Skies \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ucpXqj7LAQQ?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>Tauranga, New Zealand, October 17, 2025 &#8211; The aircraft was manufactured in the United States by global aviation innovator BETA Technologies. It arrived in the country last week and was blessed at a sunrise ceremony in Tauranga. The aircraft is expected to fly to Hamilton Airport later today where it will be based before moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4510,797,4813,10355,10169,868,13003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace-news","category-airline-news","category-airplane-news","category-diversity","category-news","category-transportation-news","category-urban-air-mobility-uam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15348","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=15348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15352,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15348\/revisions\/15352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}