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Beta Technologies: 1,000 New Jobs and a Vermont eVTOL Bet

Beta Technologies is bursting at the seams. Less than three years after opening its 200,000-square-foot South Burlington manufacturing facility — the first large-scale electric aircraft plant in the United States — the company is doubling down on Vermont with 1,000 new hires, medical flight pilots, and a $3.5 billion backlog of committed orders. This is what patient, infrastructure-first AAM strategy looks like at scale.

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SkyDrive Completes Tokyo eVTOL Demos, Eyes U.S. Market

Japan’s leading eVTOL manufacturer just completed its first-ever public flights over Tokyo — testing everything from biometric check-in to compact rooftop vertiport operations. Now SkyDrive is bringing that momentum to Atlanta, where a major U.S. partnership announcement is set for March 9 at Verticon 2026. We’ve been watching SkyDrive for almost a decade.