BETA’s proof-of-concept aircraft, ALIA-01, was built in South Burlington, Vermont, by a small team working to prove electric aviation could work. It became a faithful workhorse — flying hundreds of flights and hundreds of hours, carrying engineers, customers, FAA pilots and military pilots, and serving as the testbed for countless changes and improvements along the way.
Today, ALIA aircraft are flying real-world missions around the world. The lessons learned from ALIA-01 still shape the aircraft BETA builds today.
This is the story of ALIA-01, told by the team who built it.