BETA Becomes First Company to Secure Landmark FAA Authorization to Conduct Flight Operations with Prospective Customers in Electric VTOL Aircraft
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BETA Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BETA) (“BETA”), an aerospace and defense company, today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”) has awarded its ALIA VTOL (“A250”) aircraft a Special Airworthiness Certificate for market surveys, marking the first such authorization granted to an electric vertical takeoff and landing (“VTOL”) aircraft. “This authorization brings vertical flight closer to the people and places that will put it to work, buil.