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FAA Names Airports for Unmanned Aircraft Detection System Testing

Dan Pimentel

Tuesday, March 09, 2021 at 04:24 PM ET

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Key Takeaways:

The FAA has selected five U.S. airports to serve as testing sites for its research program evaluating technologies that detect and mitigate potential safety risks from remotely piloted aircraft.
This program, running through 2023, will test and evaluate at least 10 detection and mitigation systems to develop future standards for drone management at airports.
Testing will occur in phases, starting with baseline data collection at Atlantic City International Airport, followed by validation and performance assessment at other diverse airport environments across the U.S.

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Dan Pimentel

Dan Pimentel is an instrument-rated private pilot and former airplane owner who has been flying since 1996. As an aviation journalist and photographer, he has covered all aspects of the general and business aviation communities for a long list of major aviation magazines, newspapers and websites. He has never met a flying machine that he didn’t like, and has written about his love of aviation for years on his Airplanista blog. For 10 years until 2019, he hosted the popular ‘Oshbash’ social media meetup events at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.