Tag Archives: FAA

Hoeven Announces FAA BVLOS Waivers and Outlines Sky Range Pr…

Senator John Hoeven held a meeting with leaders from the Grand Forks community, the University of North Dakota (UND), and the area’s unmanned aerial systems (UAS) industry, where he: Announced that that, at his urging, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA): Has approved beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) waivers for UAS flights in the region utilizing enhanced …

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InDro Obtains FAA BVLOS Waiver for Solar Farm Inspections

InDro Robotics has obtained a waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct Beyond Visual Line of Sight flights. The waiver will allow InDro to expand its successful program of remotely piloted infrastructure inspections where we ship a drone to the location – and instruct a person there to be …

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FAA Grants Textron Certificate to Operate Aerosonde Aircraft

Textron Systems Corporation, a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, announced it has been issued a special airworthiness certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct civil unmanned aircraft operations at its Unmanned Systems Service and Support Center located in Blackstone, Virginia, adjacent to the Allen C. Perkinson Blackstone Army Airfield …

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FAA grants wide authority to UAF unmanned aircraft center

The Federal Aviation Administration has granted a regulatory waiver to the University of Alaska Fairbanks unmanned aircraft systems test site.  The agency’s decision supports aircraft manufacturers and operators in proving the safety of their drones so they can be certified for flight in the national airspace system. The Alaska Center …

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Spright Earns First of its Kind FAA Waiver for Drone Operati…

Spright announced on February 15th that it earned a nationwide, non-geospecific Certificate of Waiver (CoW) for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone operations from the FAA. The CoW allows small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) to travel up to four nautical miles for critical utility infrastructure surveys. This waiver puts …

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FAA Grants Initial Approval Allowing BVLOS Flights on ND Sys…

Leveraging Vantis, the state’s first-of-its-kind UAS network, uAvionix, an avionics company specializing in drones, received approval by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) small unmanned aircraft flights in North Dakota. uAvionix, with support from the Northern Plains UAS Test Site, demonstrated to the FAA that …

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FAA announces new Executive Director of UAS Integration Offi…

By David H. Boulter, FAA Associate Administrator (A) for Aviation Safety | December 27, 2022 On December 15th, the FAA announced the new Executive Director of the UAS Integration Office, Jeffrey Vincent, who will be joining the AVS Management Team in January. Jeffrey has extensive experience in working across the agency …

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uAvionix Awarded FAA contract for C-Band FAM

uAvionix announced it has won a contract from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for multiple end-to-end demonstrations of a Frequency Assignment Manager (FAM) as a component of the uAvionix SkyLine™ Command and Control Communications Service Provider (C2CSP) management platform. This large-scale demonstration will enable a Frequency Management Organization (FMO) operating the SkyLine …

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MissionGO Achieves Critical FAA Milestone

BALTIMORE – Sept. 19, 2022 – MissionGO Unmanned Systems announced today the publication of the MGV100’s FAA Airworthiness Criteria in the Federal Register. This critical milestone is the next phase of MissionGO’s Type Certification of the MGV100, manufactured by MissionGO. This step marks the brand’s continued innovation in uncrewed aircraft …

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Amazon and Walmart want the FAA to let them use part of your…

One of the largest government-assisted property grabs in U.S. history is quietly unfolding above America’s cities and towns. Walmart and other giant corporations eager to launch drone delivery services are using FAA authorizations to snatch up private airspace rights and paying us nothing in return. It’s only a matter of time until these companies …

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