“BETA Aircraft Lands at Toronto Billy Bishop Airport, Part of Demonstration Flight with Partner FBO, Stolport”

BETA Tech­nolo­gies announced this week a suc­cess­ful land­ing of its ALIA CTOL air­craft at the Bil­ly Bish­op Toron­to City Air­port, reports a press release.

This was part of a flight demon­stra­tion with co-host fixed-base oper­a­tor (FBO) Stol­port. The Cana­di­an show­case pub­li­cised the FBO’s pur­chase of BETA’s elec­tric charg­er, the first to be sold in Cana­da.

The demo of the air­craft sig­ni­fied Toron­to Airport’s readi­ness to invest in the foun­da­tions and tech­nol­o­gy required for elec­tric air­craft, as aligned with a mod­ernised gov­er­nance agree­ment.

In addi­tion, Stol­port announced the pur­chase of a BETA Minicube charg­er for use in their oper­a­tions at the air­port. The mobile unit is mul­ti­modal and inter­op­er­a­ble, mean­ing it can pow­er elec­tric air­craft and ground vehi­cles alike.

Nico­las Pap­palar­do, Stol­port CEO, com­ment­ed, “Join­ing BETA’s glob­al charg­ing net­work is more than an oper­a­tional upgrade, but a com­mit­ment to being on the lead­ing and green­ing edge of avi­a­tion in Cana­da.”

Roelof-Jan Steen­stra, Pres­i­dent & CEO of Port­sToron­to, own­er and oper­a­tor of Bil­ly Bish­op Air­port, added, “The future of elec­tric avi­a­tion is not about the dis­tant future; it is about the here and now, and we need to pro­vide the con­di­tions and lead­er­ship to ensure the effec­tive adop­tion of this sus­tain­able tech­nol­o­gy.”

Bil­ly Bish­op Toron­to City Air­port

Bil­ly Bish­op serves as an impor­tant hub for mobil­i­ty with­in Ontario, pro­vid­ing more than two mil­lion pas­sen­gers a year with safe trans­port to over 20 cities in Cana­da and the U.S as well as con­nec­tions to more than 100 inter­na­tion­al des­ti­na­tions.

It has now joined BETA’s grow­ing net­work of infra­struc­ture who has brought 52 charg­ers online at site loca­tions across the U.S for pub­lic and pri­vate use by com­mer­cial, mil­i­tary and med­ical enti­ties. 

These sites, which have been installed in part­ner­ship with air­ports, FBOs, gov­ern­ment agen­cies and OEMs, set the foun­da­tion to bring elec­tric avi­a­tion to both met­ro­pol­i­tan areas as well as rur­al and hard-to-reach com­mu­ni­ties with lim­it­ed access to air trans­porta­tion.

Sheradin Fab­riz­ius, BETA’s Sales Direc­tor, remarked, “Between our engi­neer­ing hub in Mon­tre­al and cus­tomers in Van­cou­ver, Cana­da is an impor­tant inter­na­tion­al focus for us. We’re excit­ed to have flown ALIA into the heart of Toron­to and to be team­ing up with Stol­port to help elec­tri­fy Bil­ly Bish­op as the region embraces this new form of mobil­i­ty.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://beta.team

https://stolport.com/

www.billybishopairport.com

(Top image: BETA ALIA CTOL at Bil­ly Bish­op Air­port)

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