Being one of the two only UAS ranges with extensive vertical flight allowance within Canada and North America, Kenney sees the Foremost UAS Range as a great opportunity for economic growth within the province of Alberta. As Doug Hanna, the range manager mentions that the unmanned aircraft is a fast-growing industry.
LETHBRIDGE -- The first test flight of an unmanned aircraft system, more commonly known as drones, at the Foremost UAS Test Range happened just over four years ago in 2017. Since then, they've taken on clients of all types, ranging from forestry and agriculture to weapon's defense. Farmers use drones [...]
Being one of the two only UAS ranges with extensive vertical flight allowance within Canada and North America, Kenney sees the Foremost UAS Range as a great opportunity for economic growth within the province of Alberta. As Doug Hanna, the range manager mentions that the unmanned aircraft is a fast-growing industry.
On a vast swath of southern Alberta prairie, near the tiny village of Foremost, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have unrivalled freedom to roam. “The large … airspace has a wide variety of terrain features,” said Doug Hanna, manager of the Foremost UAS Range, the first BVLOS testing range for drones [...]
Drone Delivery Canada successfully achieves Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) flights in Foremost Alberta. Canada's first BVLOS flights for drone delivery.
Foremost, Alta., is home to Canada's only testing range to fly drones beyond line of sight 'When Ken Kultgen looks up in the air, it's not birds or planes that he sees, but the future. And it comes in the shape of a drone. "Lots of communities envy where [...]
Drone Delivery Canada has successfully tested and achieved Beyond Visual Line of Sight flights within Canada, under the guidance of Transport Canada in Foremost Alberta.
Highlights: Drone Delivery Canada is the first and only drone delivery logistics company in Canada to commence Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) testing at the Foremost Alberta Drone test range Testing at Foremost is expected to advance the Company closer to receiving it Operator Status Certificate Company then [...]
Six years after the skies over Foremost were pegged as a perfect venue to host drone and unmanned aircraft development, Ottawa has permanently designated the range for long-range testing. Transport Minister Marc Garneau made the announcement late last week. Now officials with the Canadian Centre for Unmanned Vehicle Systems [...]
From 2007 until 2015, the Canadian Centre for Unmanned Vehicle Systems was a Canadian federal not-for-profit corporation based in Medicine Hat, Alberta. CCUVS worked very hard to support the nascent unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) industry as a means to grow and diversify the Alberta and Canadian economies. In 2014, CCUVS [...]
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