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BROOMFIELD — Gas-powered airplanes will be a thing of the past, if Smashburger restaurant chain co-founder Richard Schaden has his way.

Schaden’s green goal is to create airplanes and rocket ships that run on something other than fossil fuels and produce exhaust other than carbon dioxide. To do that, Schaden’s company Beyond Aviation in Broomfield has built a Cessna 172 personal airplane that uses an electric motor. Beyond Aviation is a subsidiary of Beyond the Edge, a separate company wholly owned by Schaden, who also operates the subsidiary Escape Dynamics LLC in Broomfield.

Escape Dynamics has a digital prototype design for a…