{"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&#8217;s 1st CX300 Completes Maiden Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electric flight has taken off for <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"158197\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-new-zealand\/\"  >Air New Zealand<\/a><\/span>. The country&#8217;s flag carrier of which bears its name, made its maiden test flight this week as the fully electric <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/electric-aircraft-landing-jfk-revolution-aviation\/\" >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":"<p>A groundbreaking flight takes off, powered by a secret force. What&#8217;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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303592,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303591\/revisions\/303592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}