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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 | 31 May 2013 |
| 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 | drone; drones; unmanned aerial systems; unmanned systems; Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | East Oregonian (Pendleton, Oregon) |
| Title | Drone industry prepares for takeoff in Oregon |
| Dateline | Pendleton, Oregon |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.newspapers.com/image/1178568984/?terms=drone |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2013-05-31|east-oregonian|oregon-drone-industry-test-site-bid |
| Source grade | A1 |

## Pictures

- page: 2013-05-31-east-oregonian-drone-industry-takeoff-page.jpg
- clips folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12wYYuLheAkr2POrfp-By56Phe8bXQsKv

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — A1]** Chris Rizer of the East Oregonian reported that Oregon could soon become a launch pad for a drone industry expansion that produces thousands of new jobs over the next decade. Drones are mostly used by the military, but manufacturers are ready to make them for other uses like crop spraying and forest-fire search and rescue. The only problem is that they have few places to test new products — the five drone companies based in Oregon use the Boardman Bombing Range or Edwards Air Force Base near Los Angeles. If the Federal Aviation Administration approves Oregon’s application to be a drone test site, manufacturers could also fly out of the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport in Pendleton, Port of Tillamook and Warm Springs. “The objective of the FAA is to integrate unmanned aerial systems into the national airspace — it means they (eventually) fly anywhere,” said Erik Simpkins, lead researcher for the test site application. “Our objective is to learn how to fly safely and avoid other unmanned systems and unpiloted systems by flying in rural areas.” Pendleton has become a hot spot for drone manufacturers since the Army National Guard was approved to fly them out of the airport. An already healthy guest list of 150 confirmed to attend a drone conference in October has increased to more than 200, said Eric Folkestad, president of the Cascade Chapter of the Association for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems International. Jump implied to page 7A (1178569001); CDN 403 on that page this pass, so 7A body is not locked.

**Kinematic object.** Civil UAS test-site bid (Pendleton / Tillamook / Warm Springs); Guard UAS already authorized at EORA.

**Coverage frame.** industry / test site

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: East Oregonian staff byline on the local Oregon test-site bid and Pendleton Guard authorization.
- Wire reprint status: Staff-written (Chris Rizer). Not AP/Reuters/McClatchy.
- OCR / image-page caveats: Tesseract on A1 only. Hed locked. 7A jump not extracted after a 403 on img.newspapers.com.
- What was excluded: Adjacent GMO-wheat Japan-ban story.

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Passport. A Watch desk would have logged Oregon’s rural three-box test-site bid (Pendleton/Tillamook/Warm Springs) already riding a Guard COA at EORA.

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