“BETA 916LF Aircraft Completes Stunning 3,064 Nautical Mile Flight Across America”

There are times when a com­pa­ny must tell the world of a remark­able accom­plish­ment and BETA Tech­nolo­gies’ stun­ning 3,064 nau­ti­cal mile flight across Amer­i­ca is such an exam­ple.

Achieved via a series of stag­gered flights, its pro­duc­tion-intent air­craft 916LF took off from the company’s test cen­tre in Platts­burgh, New York, even­tu­al­ly land­ing on the West Coast at San­ta Mon­i­ca Munic­i­pal Air­port. The air­craft flew through VFR, IFR, day and night con­di­tions, as grant­ed by the FAA’s Spe­cial Air­wor­thi­ness Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. 

Over the course of the trip, the 916LF flew across 11 states, includ­ing New York, Ohio, Indi­ana, Arkansas, Mis­souri, Arkansas, Okla­homa, Texas, New Mex­i­co, Ari­zona, Neva­da and Cal­i­for­nia. The craft flew through munic­i­pal and state air­ports, as well as DoD bases, includ­ing Creech Air Force Base and Nel­lis Air Force Base. 

Through Snow and Desert Heat

The jour­ney referred to by the com­pa­ny as “The BETA Barn­storm” met all forms of weath­er from snow and ice to desert heat and took close to a week to com­plete after var­i­ous stops for bat­tery recharg­ing.

The two pilots involved, Nate Dubie and Noah Ranal­lo, pilot­ed the air­craft on a rotat­ing basis. A lim­it­ed road crew joined for the cross-coun­try trip, pro­vid­ing addi­tion­al back-up sup­port for any required main­te­nance and data cap­ture.

BETA’s con­stant “push­ing of the bound­aries” fol­lows the aircraft’s first night flight last month.

Fly­ing At Night Video

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(Images: BETA Tech­nolo­gies)

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