In 1988, Dan Wolf (63) — a lifelong aviation buff — founded the regional airline company Cape Air, which began with one route, six employees, and one airplane. Since then it has grown into America’s largest independent regionally based airline. Today Cape Air has 94 aircraft and 1,000 employees; it serves parts of the East Coast, Midwest, Caribbean, and Micronesia. Wolf has agreed to purchase the revolutionary Alice all-electric short-haul airliner for the Cape Air fleet — the first customer for the plane designed and developed by Israeli company Eviation.
Quote: “As a development partner with Eviation, Cape Air is working on airworthiness certification from the FAA to start operating Alice. That campaign is set to begin in 2020 with a flight-test program in Arizona expected to last 24 to 30 months. Even if all goes well, there are major obstacles to certification, including getting the FAA to approve what would be the very first all-electric multi-engine airplane for commercial service in the U.S.”
Sources: Wikipedia, Provincetown Independent
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