Beta Technologies, in a first, lands passenger-carrying electric aircraft at NY airport


Aerospace manufacturer BETA Technologies' electric aircraft, ALIA, taxis at John F. Kennedy Airport with the lower Manhattan skyline in the background in New York City, U.S., June 3, 2025. It is the first Advanced Air Mobility flight into JFK Airport. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper

(Corrects headline to reflect that the milestone was at a New York airport, not that it was the first such aircraft ever)

(Reuters) - Beta Technologies became the first U.S. company to land an all-electric aircraft at an airport in the New York-New Jersey region, the company and port authorities said in Tuesday.

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