{"id":15504,"date":"2026-02-02T19:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15504"},"modified":"2026-02-10T20:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:43:35","slug":"norway-completes-its-first-electric-aviation-test-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15504","title":{"rendered":"Norway completes its first electric aviation test project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Story and image from\u00a0BETA Technologies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stavanger, Norway, February 2, 2026 &#8211; <\/strong>Norway reached an important milestone last Wednesday, January 28 in its transition to low and zero-emission aviation with the completion of its first electric aviation test project, conducted as an international test arena.<\/p>\n<p>After roughly six months of operational testing, Bristow pilot Jeremy Degagne landed the BETA Technologies ALIA aircraft in Stavanger, bringing the project to a close and delivering valuable real-world experience in electric aircraft operations, infrastructure, and regulatory frameworks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Safe introduction into a highly regulated system<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The project has demonstrated how new aviation technologies can be introduced safely and gradually into a highly regulated environment, and how close cooperation among authorities, airports, operators, and technology providers is essential to a successful transition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the link to read the full story! -&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/beta.team\/stories\/norway-completes-its-first-electric-aviation-test-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Norway completes first electric aviation test project<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Signing Off in Stavanger\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k4E8s9emRUw?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\u00a0BETA Technologies Stavanger, Norway, February 2, 2026 &#8211; Norway reached an important milestone last Wednesday, January 28 in its transition to low and zero-emission aviation with the completion of its first electric aviation test project, conducted as an international test arena. After roughly six months of operational testing, Bristow pilot Jeremy Degagne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,5637,13618,5878,7929,4059],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-communications-news","category-environmental-news","category-european-news","category-green-energy-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15504","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=15504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15505,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15504\/revisions\/15505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}