During its barnstorming, six-week tour of the U.S., Beta Technologies’ CX300 production-intent electric aircraft was greeted with wide eyes—both of excitement and confusion.

“That’s a pretty, uh, different looking aircraft there—what is that thing?” the pilot of a Cessna 177 Cardinal asked Beta test pilot Chris Caputo during an in-air meetup in Utah.

“That thing would be called a Beta Technologies CX300 all-electric conventional takeoff and landing aircraft,” Caputo replied. “Be on the look out, you’re going to see a lot more of them.”

The aircraft—tail number N916LF, the first to be rolled off Beta’s scaled production line in Burlington, Vermont last year—recently returned to Plattsburgh International Airport (KPBG) after visiting more than 20 states and 82 municipal, state, and military airfields.