Electric Harbour Air
World’s first all-electric commercial plane set for takeoff in Richmond
Vancouver’s Harbour Air announces 1st ever test flight of its newly retrofitted e-plane
Vancouver-based Harbour Air is getting set for its own version of Kittyhawk on Dec. 11, 2019 when founder and CEO Greg McDougall takes to the skies over Richmond for the inaugural test flight of the world’s first fully electric commercial aircraft.
“The whole process has been exciting and fun because it’s something that hasn’t been done before,” said McDougall. “But at the end of the day there’s a financial and economic and environmental goal here, and those are the things that are really important to me.”
McDougall will be flying solo in a DHC-2 de Havilland Beaver float plane that has been retrofitted with a 750 horsepower electric motor.
The plan is to take off from the middle arm of the Fraser River, head west toward Terra Nova Point in Richmond before circling back and landing where he started. – READ the rest of this article at CBC
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