{"id":443344,"date":"2026-10-31T06:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443344\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T06:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:22:35","slug":"tampa-bay-electric-aircraft-tests-could-bring-florida-air-taxis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443344\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay electric aircraft tests could bring Florida air taxis | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA BAY, Fla. (WINK)\u2014Florida\u2019s first advanced air mobility electric aircraft demonstration flights took off over Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"FAA Presser\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The aircraft was part of the FAA\u2019s Integration Pilot Program. Gov. Ron DeSantis said the new pilot program included cargo delivery and emergency services.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis also said the program could offer air taxi services. He said the public-private program would run with FAA oversight.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"presser crowd\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The goal was travel from Miami to Orlando without using roads. Real-world operations were expected by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA BAY, Fla. (WINK)\u2014Florida\u2019s first advanced air mobility electric aircraft demonstration flights took off over Tampa Bay. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7811,28,412,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-443344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-federal-aviation-administration","tag-florida","tag-ron-desantis","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}