{"id":303591,"date":"2025-10-18T16:21:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-new-zealand-goes-electric-cx300-maiden-flight\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T16:21:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:21:25","slug":"air-new-zealand-goes-electric-airlines-1st-cx300-completes-maiden-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=303591","title":{"rendered":"Air New Zealand Goes Electric: Airline’s 1st CX300 Completes Maiden Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Electric flight has taken off for Air New Zealand<\/a><\/span>. The country’s flag carrier of which bears its name, made its maiden test flight this week as the fully electric BETA ALIA CX300<\/a> took flight across the city of Tauranga. The aircraft is manufactured by BETA Technologies, a Vermont-based aerospace manufacturer that specialises in developing eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) and CTOL (conventional take off and landing) aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A groundbreaking flight takes off, powered by a secret force. What’s behind this aviation first?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1395,396,476,8763,294,801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-new-zealand","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-electric-plane","category-new-zealand","category-sustainability"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t