The company said data from the mission using sustainable aviation fuel will move the aviation industry toward its net-zero goals.

How a small plane’s 16-day trip from Vermont to Florida might foreshadow a new era of battery-powered air travel long considered implausible.

A collection of trade groups representing the business aviation industry is set to launch a new campaign to tout the sector’s role in pioneering new advancements to help lower emissions and the industry’s pledge to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

The industry has reduced emissions by more 40 percent in just four decades and every new model of aircraft is as much as 30 percent more efficient than a model it replaces.