Four airports. Four charge sites.

Michigan Department of Transportation placed BETA Charge equipment at four airports: Lansing, Traverse City, Willow Run, and Holland.

Each airport serves a different part of Michigan’s transportation system. Lansing serves cargo routes across mid-Michigan. Traverse City serves rural northern communities. Willow Run supports cargo operations near Detroit. Holland supports aircraft charging on the airport and public electric-vehicle charging in the parking area.

The four sites give Michigan installed charging locations for electric aircraft, ground equipment, and electric vehicles.

Customer: 
Michigan Department of Transportation, Office of Aeronautics

Locations: 
Lansing Airport (KLAN), Traverse City Airport (KTVC), Willow Run Airport (KYIP), and Holland Airport (KBIV)

Project: 
Aircraft charging, electric ground-equipment charging, and public electric-vehicle charging

The work: 
Michigan Department of Transportation needed charge sites that matched the work at each airport.

Cargo airports need aircraft charging near cargo operations. Rural airports need equipment that supports aircraft serving dispersed communities. General aviation airports need charging that fits the ramp, the parking area, and the people who use both.

Michigan selected four airports with defined operating roles and planned each site around those roles. 

Cargo access for mid-Michigan

Lansing serves as a cargo hub for mid-Michigan. Smaller airports within roughly 75 miles receive package deliveries today.

The charge site gives operators a location for planning shorter electric cargo routes between Lansing and those airports. 

Access for northern Michigan

Traverse City serves communities across northern Michigan.

The charge site gives medical operators and public agencies a location for planning aircraft operations that move supplies and support medical transport.

Cargo infrastructure near Detroit

Willow Run serves as a primary cargo airport for Michigan and sits near Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

The charge site adds aircraft and ground-equipment charging at an airport that already handles cargo.

Michigan Department of Transportation used its Electric Aviation Activation Fund as the primary state funding source. BETA contributed matching funds. The Michigan Economic Development Corporation also supported the project.

The teams reviewed the aircraft and vehicles that would use each site, available electrical service, ramp access, parking areas, airport plans, and approval requirements.

Three larger airports worked directly with the Federal Aviation Administration on documentation. Michigan Department of Transportation handled the Holland approvals through its Office of Aeronautics.

The work included airport-plan updates, site review, utility coordination, and installation planning.

Michigan’s four charge sites connect to BETA Charge infrastructure in Ohio and across the East Coast.

The network gives operators locations to plan routes, charge aircraft, and continue the flight. It also gives airports charging equipment for aircraft and ground vehicles at the same site.

At Holland, one installation serves the ramp and the parking area.

Michigan Department of Transportation needed charge sites that matched the work at each airport.

Cargo airports need aircraft charging near cargo operations. Rural airports need equipment that supports aircraft serving dispersed communities. General aviation airports need charging that fits the ramp, the parking area, and the people who use both.

Michigan selected four airports with defined operating roles and planned each site around those roles.