0 U. of Alaska—1st org. other than NASA/DoD to get a COA to fly in civil airspace beyond line-of-sight Posted by Tim Trueman on August 18, 2009 at 1:00pm The University of Alaska is the first entity, other than NASA or the Department of Defense, to receive an emergency certificate of authority from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly in civil airspace with an unmanned aircraft beyond line-of-sight.A sign of progress?University of Alaska assists fire personnel in mapping the Crazy Mountain Complex fires with the ScanEagle. E-mail me when people leave their comments – Follow
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The introduction of drones should be used as an excuse to replace sense-and-avoid with transmit-and-avoid.