Hanneke Weitering is a writer and editor with AIN covering advanced air mobility and new flight technologies. She became an aviation journalist and joined the AIN team in the summer of 2022 after reporting on spaceflight and astronomy for six years at Space.com. After earning a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she moved to New York City to pursue a master’s degree in science, health, and environmental reporting at New York University&#039;s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She is now based in Seattle near Boeing Field and spends her free time exploring nature in the Pacific Northwest.

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Washington state is investing another $350,000 in hydrogen propulsion system developer ZeroAvia, Governor&nbsp;Jay Inslee said Monday at the Paris Airshow. The additional funding will support the expansion of ZeroAvia’s research and development activities at Paine Field, an airport located in Snohomish County, Washington.&nbsp;
The investment from Washington State’s Department of Commerce follows another $350,000 award it granted to ZeroAvia in early 2022 to support <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2022-01-10/zeroavia-open-rd-facility-washingtons-paine-field-airport">the opening of its new research and development&nbsp;facility</a> at Paine Field.
ZeroAvia, which maintains headquarters in California and in the U.K., uses&nbsp;the new Paine Field facility to retrofit a De&nbsp;Havilland Dash 8-400 twin turboprop with its ZA2000 hydrogen fuel cell-based propulsion system. <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2023-05-02/alaska-airlines-donates-dash-8-aircraft-zeroavias-hydrogen-propulsion">Alaska Airlines donated the 76-seat Q400 </a>to ZeroAvia and delivered it to Paine Field in early May.&nbsp;
ZeroAvia says it expects to begin flight tests with the hydrogen-powered Dash 8 in 2024. In January the company <a href="https://www.futureflight.aero/news-article/2023-01-19/zeroavia-achieves-first-flight-hydrogen-powered-regional-airliner">began&nbsp;a flight test campaign</a> with a Dornier 228 technology demonstrator in Moses Lake, Washington. For that testbed, ZeroAvia replaced one of the aircraft’s turboprops with a 600-kilowatt ZA600 hydrogen-electric engine.

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At the Paris Airshow on June 19, 2023, Governor Jay Inslee (left) and ZeroAvia founder and CEO Val Miftakhov (right) announced a new investment by Washington state into ZeroAvia's facilities in Moses Lake, Washington. (Photo: Hanneke Weitering/AIN)

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