Atlantic Aviation and BETA Technologies to bring electric charging network online at four Atlantic locations

Atlantic Avi­a­tion and BETA Tech­nolo­gies are col­lab­o­rat­ing to install BETA’s elec­tric charg­ing sta­tions at sev­er­al of Atlantic’s air­port loca­tions across the East and Gulf Coasts.

The two have already installed one mul­ti­modal, inter­op­er­a­ble charg­er – at Elmi­ra Region­al Air­port – and have signed host site agree­ments (HSAs) for three addi­tion­al loca­tions, with more sites in the works.

With these sites, Atlantic exem­pli­fies its lead­er­ship posi­tion in the space as it mod­ern­izes its infra­struc­ture to enable next-gen­er­a­tion avi­a­tion oper­a­tions.

John Red­cay, Atlantic Avi­a­tion Chief Com­mer­cial and Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Offi­cer, said: “We are thrilled to work with BETA as we look to inno­vate in the avi­a­tion infra­struc­ture space and expand the avail­abil­i­ty of elec­tric air­craft charg­ing for the mar­ket. We are focused on a tech­nol­o­gy-agnos­tic approach to elec­tri­fi­ca­tion and new avi­a­tion tech­nolo­gies and see BETA’s charg­ers as a key piece of that sto­ry.”

BETA’s charg­ers are designed to be mul­ti­modal and inter­op­er­a­ble. They uti­lize a stan­dard that is com­pat­i­ble with BETA’s own all-elec­tric ALIA air­craft and oth­er top orig­i­nal equip­ment man­u­fac­tur­ers (OEMs) across the indus­try, as well as elec­tric ground vehi­cles, offer­ing a sin­gle solu­tion for ground- and air-based elec­tric trans­porta­tion alike.

As air­ports and the broad­er trans­porta­tion sec­tor con­tin­ue to tran­si­tion to elec­tric and sus­tain­able alter­na­tives, this tech­nol­o­gy pro­vides an impor­tant foun­da­tion for inte­grat­ed oper­a­tions.

Nate Ward, BETA Tech­nolo­gies head of Charge Net­work Devel­op­ment, said: “As a pre­mier FBO com­pa­ny, Atlantic Avi­a­tion has a strong pulse on the needs of the mar­ket and a long his­to­ry of inno­vat­ing to meet demand.

“Over the past sev­er­al years, BETA has been focused on deploy­ing a reli­able, well-dis­trib­uted net­work of fast charg­ers to enable the entire advanced air mobil­i­ty indus­try, and we are aligned with the team at Atlantic on our mis­sion. This col­lab­o­ra­tion rep­re­sents an impor­tant step in grow­ing a net­work across North Amer­i­ca, and we look for­ward to work­ing togeth­er to bring this vision to fruition.”

The par­ties have infra­struc­ture in the ground or HSAs in place for Birm­ing­ham Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (BHM), Elmi­ra Region­al Air­port (ELM), Jack­son-Medgar Wiley Evers Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (JAN), and West­field-Barnes Region­al Air­port (BAF), and are active­ly work­ing with addi­tion­al air­port author­i­ties to con­tin­ue their col­lab­o­ra­tive expan­sion.

These Atlantic sites will join BETA’s grow­ing net­work of charg­ing sta­tions across the U.S. The com­pa­ny has brought its mul­ti­modal and inter­op­er­a­ble charg­ers online at 17 loca­tions, with anoth­er 55 sites in the per­mit­ting or con­struc­tion process.

In addi­tion to imple­ment­ing future-focused infra­struc­ture that will enable advanced air mobil­i­ty (AAM) in key region­al mar­kets along the East and Gulf Coasts, Atlantic and BETA have devel­oped a mod­el approach for the indus­try.

With this agree­ment, they have cre­at­ed a tem­plate for FBO OEM rela­tion­ships that will expe­dite the exe­cu­tion of HSAs mov­ing for­ward, allow­ing for expand­ed infra­struc­ture imple­men­ta­tion as the indus­try read­ies itself for pro­ject­ed 2025 AAM oper­a­tions.

The exist­ing net­work, which spans from Ver­mont to Arkansas and Flori­da, includes the Depart­ment of Defense’s first-ever elec­tric air­craft charg­er installed at Duke Field, Eglin Air Force Base, where BETA’s ALIA air­craft was deployed for sev­er­al months.

Many of these sites have been test­ed first-hand by BETA’s all-elec­tric ALIA air­craft as it has trav­eled from Burling­ton, Ver­mont to Ben­tonville, Arkansas, Louisville, Ken­tucky, and Eglin, Flori­da, respec­tive­ly. 

Togeth­er, Atlantic and BETA are cre­at­ing greater access to elec­tric avi­a­tion which, with its reduced costs and net-zero oper­at­ing emis­sions, will enable region­al air mobil­i­ty, unlock new mis­sion sets and net­work con­fig­u­ra­tions, and allow for the recon­nec­tion of com­mu­ni­ties.