BETA Technologies and Multistate Collaborative Complete First Operational Flights of the U.S. DOT and FAA's eVTOL Integration Pilot Program

BETA Technologies and Multistate Collaborative Complete First Operational Flights of the U.S. DOT and FAA's eVTOL Integration Pilot Program

The flights carried manufactured organs, being developed by United Therapeutics

The flights are also the first in a series of use cases that will touch at least 26 states nationwide

BETA Technologies, Inc. (BETA) (NYSE: BETA), an aerospace and defense company, and the Multistate Collaborative eIPP National Integration Complex today announced the completion of the first electric conventional takeoff and landing (“CTOL”) aircraft flights conducted under the U.S. Department of Transportation (“U.S. DOT”) and the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”)’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (“eIPP”), the federal government's new initiative to evaluate how Advanced Air Mobility (“AAM”) aircraft can safely operate in everyday commercial use within the National Airspace System (“NAS”).

The mission—conducted in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, the Virginia Department of Aviation, and the Maryland Aviation Administration—demonstrates BETA's ability to transform mission-critical logistics.