The Gulf Islands off Vancouver BC are awesome, as is the excitement of taking a float-plane flightto get to hidden destinations, including off-grid gems like Pirates Cove De Courcy Island. What's even more awesome is that the world's first all-electric commercial aircraft landed today Dec 10th after a successful test flight at the Harbour Air Seaplane terminal in Richmond, B.C.

Today, we made history. Launching the world’s first electric commercial aircraft retrofitted with a 750 horsepower all-electric magni500 propulsion system. Thank you to our amazing maintenance team and our partners at@MagniXfor all your efforts! Together, we did it!#ePlanepic.twitter.com/Rhw35BRnqB

— Harbour Air Seaplanes (@HarbourAirLtd)December 10, 2019

With Vancouver 2020 "Greenest City" fast approaching, Harbour Air announced in March 19 that it had partnered with engineering firm MagniX in Washington State with the goal of becoming the world's first all-electric airline.

Harbour Air首席执行官Greg McDougall在一段视频声明中说，他相信航空的未来是电气化的，他为成为电子飞机转变的一部分感到自豪——Harbour Air覆盖12条航线，每年在温哥华、维多利亚、西雅图和其他地方运营约3万次航班。为了避免温哥华地区明天的天气变化，测试飞行从周三提前。

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