Harbour Air's electric plane makes successful test flight

The e-Beaver, a modified de Havilland Beaver aircraft with electric engine powered by ­batteries, flew 72 kilometres in 24 minutes.

“This is a major milestone in the advancement of all-electric commercial flights,” the ­company said in a statement.Kory Paul, Harbour Air’s vice-president of flight operations and one of the company’s test pilots, called it a “historic flight” and said it went exactly as planned.

The ePlane will stay in V­ictoria to support Harbour Air’s partnership with the B.C. Aviation Museum, which is hosting an open house Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., before returning to Harbour Air’s maintenance facility at YVR. The short test flight of the six-passenger, DHC-2 de ­Havilland Beaver from Harbour Air’s terminal in Richmond was the world’s first all-electric ­commercial aircraft flight.

Nice toy. A plane with a low payload, very limited range/endurance and long refuelling turn around times. Next to useless except for novelty flights.

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