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News Source Record

# News Source Record

**L-Ne / Open-source news extract** — Original media coverage of unmanned aerial systems.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 27 May 2011 |
| Platform | Quiet Systems |
| Data label | Open-source news record // LRRK collection product |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. |
| Scale | Local |
| Language | English |
| Terms matched | UAV; UAS; Shadow 200; unmanned aerial |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | Las Cruces Sun-News (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| Title | Flight Test Center stages successful UAV test |
| Dateline | Las Cruces / Hatch, New Mexico |
| First publisher | yes (NMSU News Center copy in the local paper) |
| Original URL | https://www.newspapers.com/image/1353489016/?terms=%22Shadow%20200%22 |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2011-05-27|las-cruces-sun-news|nmsu-ftc-shadow-200-hatch |
| Source grade | B1 |

## Pictures

- page: 2011-05-27-las-cruces-sun-news-shadow-page.jpg
- photo 1: 2011-05-27-las-cruces-sun-news-shadow-photo-1.jpg
- clips folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1U9vqOy5tmxAI-5y7Uyjb3iP6t3U53K83


## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — B1]** Dennis Zaklan, writing for the NMSU News Center and printed in the Las Cruces Sun-News, reported that New Mexico State University’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Test Center supported AAI Corp.’s Shadow 200 Tactical UAS in conducting flights over the skies of Hatch beginning May 2. These were four flight tests in support of efforts by the Federal Aviation Administration Tech Center to further UAS flights in the National Airspace System. NMSU’s UAS FTC is the only FAA-approved FTC in the nation; the FAA and NMSU developed the center to provide a place for manufacturers, government agencies and other developers or operators to safely test-fly, demonstrate and train their UAS. During the tests the FAA Unmanned Aircraft Program Office had representatives on-site. Three types of flights: a checkout flight; a link-up between the chase plane and the unmanned aircraft; and 4D test flights and demonstration to be performed safely within the NAS. The chase plane provides the UAS pilot-in-command with eyes in the sky, enabling the UAS to see and avoid other aircraft during flight away from the launch/recover location. Tests by the AAI Shadow TUAV, with software developed by General Electric Co. on board the UA and in the ground control station, proved that the UA could perform maneuvers when receiving input from another source. Representatives from the FAA Tech Center, the UAPO and Hatch Mayor Judd Nordyke viewed the demonstration shortly after noon on May 4. Discussions were ongoing to perform additional UAS flights in the UAS FTC’s 15,000 square miles of FAA-approved airspace. Caption: courtesy photo of the flight crew performing final checks on the Shadow 200 before it goes airborne over Hatch.

**Kinematic object.** AAI RQ-7 Shadow 200 TUAV (NMSU UAS FTC, Hatch, N.M.).

**Coverage frame.** civil / test range

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: Local print of NMSU News Center report on Hatch Shadow 200 flights at the only then-FAA-approved UAS flight test center.
- Wire reprint status: Not AP/Reuters/McClatchy. Campus news-center copy, not Sun-News staff byline.
- OCR / image-page caveats: Tesseract; UAV column interleaves with an adjacent NM Supreme Court story. Manufacturer rendered AAL then AAI; caption locks AAI Corporation. May 2 start date is cut at column end.
- What was excluded: Dog-found feature and Supreme Court resentencing story on the same page.

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Passport. A Watch desk would have logged Shadow 200 4-D NAS demo flights at Hatch with FAA UAPO on the ramp.

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