You can see the electric Beaver today at the B.C. Aviation Museum, 1910 Norseman Rd. near Sidney, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Harbour Air’s electric Beaver aircraft that made a historic flight from Richmond to Sidney on Wednesday will be on show at today’s B.C. Aviation Museum open house.
Harbour Air completed the first point-to-point test flight using its all-electric plane on Wednesday. The modified de Havilland Beaver, with tail number CFJOS, was tracked via FlightAware as flying from Richmond to Patricia Bay in North Saanich — a distance of 72 kilometres — in about 22 minutes. Wright said the e-Beaver that made the crossing is the second version of the electric Beaver. Harbour Air and its partner, MagniX, an electric aircraft engine manufacturer based in Everett, Washington, have made several tweaks over the past year, including adding lighter, more powerful batteries by Swiss company H55.
Harbour Air chief executive Greg McDougall initially flew the 750-horse-power, electric-powered float plane over the Fraser River in December 2019. The short test flight went in the aviation history books as the world’s first all-electric commercial aircraft flight. It plans to eventually electrify its entire fleet of de Havilland Beaver and Otter aircraft at a cost of about $4 million per plane. Those costs, however, could come down as supply chain issues improve, said Wright.
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