PAS 2025: “BETA Makes Available Pre-Certified ALIA CTOL Aircraft for Republic Airways Later This Year For Route Validation, Operational Assessment”

U.S‑based BETA Tech­nolo­gies has entered into a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) with Repub­lic Air­ways for the air­line (lat­er this year) to eval­u­ate the poten­tial of BETA’s all-elec­tric con­ven­tion­al take­off and land­ing (CTOL) ALIA air­craft, for region­al pas­sen­ger and car­go use cas­es, reports a press release. The two par­ties announced this agree­ment at the 2025 Paris Air Show (PAS).

The release explains, “The col­lab­o­ra­tion also includes a joint effort to eval­u­ate air­craft per­for­mance, oper­a­tional eco­nom­ics, infra­struc­ture require­ments and the aircraft’s suit­abil­i­ty.” 

Matt Koscal, Repub­lic Air­ways’ Pres­i­dent and CCO, com­ment­ed “We’ve been work­ing with BETA for the past 18 months and con­tin­ue to be impressed, not just by the per­for­mance and design of their CTOL air­craft, but by the company’s lead­er­ship, cul­ture and val­ues.” 

Matt Koscal, Kyle Clark

The col­lab­o­ra­tion also plans to explore deploy­ment of BETA’s stan­dard­ised charg­ing solu­tions at key cur­rent and poten­tial future loca­tions, as part of a broad­er readi­ness ini­tia­tive sup­port­ing future elec­tric oper­a­tions. 

Kyle Clark, BETA’s Founder and CEO, added, “The six-seat ALIA is just an entry point for a great trans­for­ma­tion of air­craft to an elec­tric future.” 

This year’s Paris Air Show also marked the first flight by an elec­tric air­craft at the event when BETA’s ALIA con­duct­ed dai­ly fly­overs with mul­ti­ple pilots. The flight was part of a broad­er Euro­pean tour that began in Ire­land and will include air­craft deliv­er­ies to Nor­way for fur­ther demon­stra­tion and test­ing. 

Ear­li­er this month, Koscal joined BETA for the first pas­sen­ger flight of an elec­tric air­craft into a New York City air­port.

Back­ground

Found­ed in 1974, Repub­lic Air­ways main­tains a fleet of over 240 Embraer 170/175 air­craft and offers sched­uled pas­sen­ger ser­vice with more than 1,000 dai­ly sched­uled flights to over 80 cities in the U.S, Cana­da, the Caribbean and Cen­tral Amer­i­ca. The air­line employs around 6,000 avi­a­tion pro­fes­sion­als.

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(Top image: ALIA on Dis­play at Paris Air­show — cred­it V. K. Thoma­l­la)

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