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First flight of world's largest electric aircraft Cessna Caravan successfully completed

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The world’s largest all-electric aircraft completed its first successful flight on Thursday. The Cessna Caravan aircraft is retrofitted with an electric engine and flew for about 290km before landing safely in Moses Lake. plane holds a seating capacity of nine passengers. However, for the maiden flight, there was only the test pilot present. The aircraft can cruise at 183kmph and could enter commercial market by 2021.