In the French Alps last summer, a plane set seven new world records. The two-seater aircraft climbed more than 20,000 feet in under two minutes, and reached speeds of 142 miles per hour.

Electric aircraft are an inevitable step for commercial aviation with the heightened focus on carbon emissions. Numerous companies are vying to develop this new technology but, with engines still ...

Beyond Aero, a startup with offices in Toulouse, Paris, and Los Angeles, presented the first concept of its hydrogen-electric light jet in France just two years ago. Since then, the team has made ...

During its barnstorming, six-week tour of the U.S., Beta Technologies’ CX300 production-intent electric aircraft was greeted with wide eyes—both of excitement and confusion. “That’s a ...

Bristow Group has placed orders for a range of electric aircraft from companies including Vertical Aerospace and Beta Technologies (pictured above). Credit: Beta Technologies SAN FRANCISCO–The ...

Joby Aviation, a California-based startup, is developing an all-electric air taxi that could soon be seen above cities ...

History was made last Saturday when the first-ever coast-to-coast flight by an all-electric aircraft was completed with the Beta CX300 touching down at Santa Monica Airport. The flight began in ...

Kyle Clark, Beta’s enigmatic founder and CEO, piloted the Alia CX300 — one of the startup’s two aircraft models — in a flight that lasted over an hour. As he climbed through clear skies in ...

An Ampaire Electric EEL aircraft flies past Maui on Nov. 22. The company became the first to complete a demonstration flight of a hybrid-electric aircraft along a commercial airline route ...

The developer of an aircraft that it describes as “so intuitive that a 4-year-old could fly it” is close to securing a major investment that could jumpstart production. Florida-based Doroni ...

In many remote regions of the world, small light aircraft take care of the people who live there. However, refueling the aircraft is often a problem because the necessary infrastructure is lacking.

Artist’s rendering of the Noemi electric seaplane. Credit: Elfly Group Scottish carrier Loch Lomond Seaplanes said March 17 that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Norway’s Elfly ...