Israeli's Alice All Electric Plane
On Display at Paris Air Show Source: Eviation's Alive at Paris Air Show, June 16, 2019 Massachusetts Based Cape Air is First Commercial Customer A notable new aircraft is on display at the Paris Air Show. It's the creation of Israeli startup Eviation. Called Alice, the plane is all electric and seats nine passengers. And it already has secured its first commercial customer - Massachusetts based regional air carrier Cape Air. Cape Air Cape Air, which flies routes in the US and Caribbean, intends to purchase a "double digit" number of the $4million aircraft for its fleet. It expects to put them into service in 2022. Alice can fly 650 miles on its batteries, reach an altitude of 10,000 feet and a cruising speed of 276 mph. Electric Flights Alice will undergo its first test flights later this year. Eviation hopes to have it US certified by 2022. The challenge for electric aircraft is the battery weight and adding that weight to the fl...