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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