{"id":443414,"date":"2026-10-31T08:50:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443414\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T08:50:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:50:46","slug":"2-electric-aircraft-land-at-tampa-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443414\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Electric Aircraft Land at Tampa International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-kserv-preview=\"\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A pair of electric aircraft prototypes landed on the runway at Tampa International Airport (KTPA) on Friday as Florida looks to evaluate a planned aerial highway network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/flight\/N545JX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">FlightAware<\/a>, Joby Aviation\u2019s electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) prototype registered N545JX took off from Albert Whitted Airport (KSPG) in St. Petersburg at 10:01 a.m. EDT and landed at Tampa International (KTPA) 20 minutes later. Per audio captured on the <a href=\"https:\/\/atc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ATC app<\/a>, the air taxi circled in the Tampa area before entering Class B airspace. It then made a low approach and entered the right downwind to land at Tampa International\u2019s Runway 1R.<\/p>\n<p>CREATE A FREE ACCOUNT<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up to keep reading<\/p>\n<p class=\"kserv-gate__simple-message\">Create a free account to continue. Already a member? Sign in below.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tDismiss<\/p>\n<p>CREATE A FREE ACCOUNT<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up to keep reading<\/p>\n<p class=\"kserv-gate__simple-message\">Create a free account to continue. Already a member? Sign in below.<\/p>\n<p>OUT OF FREE ARTICLES<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou&#8217;ve used your free articles<\/p>\n<p class=\"kserv-gate__simple-message\">You&#8217;ve read all of your free articles for now. Subscribe for unlimited access to every story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of electric aircraft prototypes landed on the runway at Tampa International Airport (KTPA) on Friday as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[118089,12393,172835,172836,41813,2345,15332,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-443414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-aam","tag-air-taxi","tag-beta-technologies","tag-demonstration-flight","tag-electric-aircraft","tag-fdot","tag-joby-aviation","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443414","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=443414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}