# News Source Record

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

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 10 February 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 | unmanned aerial; Reaper; UAV; drones |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | The Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York) |
| Title | Clearing for Reapers from Hancock (FAA safety / Schumer test-site amendment) |
| Dateline | Washington / Syracuse, New York |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.newspapers.com/image/1097951479/?terms=%22unmanned%20aerial%22 |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2011-02-10|post-standard|hancock-reaper-schumer-test-site |
| Source grade | A1 |

## Pictures

- page A1: 2011-02-10-post-standard-hancock-reaper-page.jpg
- page A9: 2011-02-10-post-standard-hancock-reaper-a9.jpg
- photo 1: 2011-02-10-post-standard-hancock-reaper-photo-1.jpg
- photo 2: 2011-02-10-post-standard-hancock-reaper-photo-2.jpg
- clips folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1U9vqOy5tmxAI-5y7Uyjb3iP6t3U53K83

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — A1]** Mark Weiner of The Post-Standard Washington bureau reported that the MQ-9 Reaper, an unmanned surveillance and attack aircraft, was unveiled at Hancock Field in October 2009. The 174th Fighter Wing of the New York Air National Guard gave up its F-16s and became a Reaper field training detachment, but safety concerns have prevented the drone aircraft from flying in and out of Hancock Field. Without authority to fly out of Hancock, the Air National Guard was preparing to base two of its Reapers at Fort Drum, near Watertown, and begin its first local training missions that summer by remotely operating them over the Adirondacks. Weiner wrote that Sen. Charles Schumer and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, planned to submit an amendment on unmanned aerial vehicles to the FAA reauthorization bill, a two-year $35 billion legislative package. The amendment would establish 10 test sites in the National Airspace System for unmanned aerial vehicles (the bill as of then proposed four). Schumer said his amendment would require at least one of the test sites to include a significant portion of public lands — aiding the chances of Hancock Field’s selection, which has the largest training space in the Northeast and plans to conduct missions over Lake Ontario. The story said success would help ensure the future of 1,215 jobs at the base in Mattydale and potentially lead to millions of dollars in radar research contracts for local defense companies. Jump, page A9, “Airspace issue addressed”: Col. Kevin Bradley, commander of the 174th Fighter Wing, called it “an ideal location to have a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) test site,” citing four seasons, training air space, varying topography and an over-water range. He said any Reapers that eventually fly out of Hancock will not be equipped with missiles or bombs; they would carry live ordnance only over ranges at Fort Drum. Bob Behler, president and CEO of SRC Inc. in Cicero, said the airspace between Hancock Field and the Adirondacks would be an ideal test site. FAA spokesman Les Dorr said “the technology does not yet exist to allow wholesale integration of unmanned aircraft in the national airspace.” Schumer spokesman Matt House said safety is job one. Photo credits: The Post-Standard, 2009 (Reaper at Hancock); Mike Greenlar / The Post-Standard, 2009 (Bradley briefing).

**Kinematic object.** MQ-9 Reaper (174th FW Hancock Field / planned Fort Drum basing and Hancock test-site bid).

**Coverage frame.** military / airspace policy

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: Post-Standard staff (Washington bureau) on the local Hancock/174th Reaper airspace fight and Schumer amendment.
- Wire reprint status: Staff-written. Not an AP/Reuters/McClatchy dump.
- OCR / image-page caveats: Tesseract on A1 and A9 page scans. A1 hed was partly cut (“…S CLEARING FOR REAPERS FROM HANCOCK”); locked facts are from the Reaper caption, A1 body, and A9 jump.
- What was excluded: A1 sports/nation/world teasers; A9 legal notices.

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Passport. A Watch desk would have logged a CONUS Reaper wing blocked from local takeoff and a Senate move to site a UAS test range on Hancock public-land airspace.

*LRRK — security assurance for systems that sense, move, and act.*

L-Ne