# News Source Record

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

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 26 March 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 | unmanned aerial vehicles; drones; UAV; UAVs; RQ-7B Shadow; unmanned aerial vehicle |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | East Oregonian (Pendleton, Oregon) |
| Title | Airport seeking economic buzz from unmanned aerial vehicles |
| Dateline | Pendleton, Oregon |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.newspapers.com/image/1178853950/?terms=UAV |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2013-03-26|east-oregonian|pendleton-airport-uav-test-site-buzz |
| Source grade | A1 |

## Pictures

- page: 2013-03-26-east-oregonian-pendleton-uav-buzz-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 Pendletonians could soon hear the buzz of unmanned aerial vehicles — commonly known as drones — over the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport, but only if the Federal Aviation Administration selects the state as a UAV test site. The FAA by September will designate six sites to develop rules to possibly integrate UAVs into general airspace. The authorization would make Pendleton far more attractive for manufacturers to move to town, because without one it takes several months to gain permission to fly a UAV. The Army National Guard expects to soon hear whether the FAA has approved a separate application to fly UAVs out of the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport. Interim airport manager Wayne Green said hobbyists may likely be allowed to fly UAVs out of the airport. If the state’s application is approved, UAVs could only be flown in an area north of the airport that is mostly wheat fields. Economic development consultant Steve Chrisman said the certificate application — which the FAA opened in February — is the project he has done the most work on since starting with the city in September. Staff photo by E.J. Harris: Lt. Col. Alan Gronewald attaches a grounding wire to a RQ-7B Shadow unmanned aerial vehicle at the Oregon National Guard hangar at the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport in Pendleton. Caption: The RQ-7B Shadow employs a camera, the inverted dome, that provides real-time battlefield intelligence to troops on the ground. Jump: See DRONES/8A.

**Kinematic object.** RQ-7B Shadow (Oregon National Guard at EORA); civil UAV test-site bid (Pendleton / Oregon).

**Coverage frame.** military / test site / industry

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: East Oregonian staff byline (Chris Rizer) on the local airport/Guard UAV and Oregon FAA test-site bid.
- Wire reprint status: Staff-written. Adjacent pension-cut and ex-presidents briefs are AP; the UAV package is Rizer / East Oregonian.
- OCR / image-page caveats: Tesseract on A1. Hed is banner-cut and reconstructed from locked fragments (“Airport seekin… economic buzz” / “from unmanned aerial vehicles”). Jump page 8A (1178853989) not extracted this pass.
- What was excluded: Umatilla County commissioner candidate series (Phil Wright); AP pension-cut and ex-president cost briefs.

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Passport. A Watch desk would have logged Pendleton pairing a pending Guard Shadow COA at EORA with Oregon’s six-site FAA test-range bid, already scoped to wheat-field airspace north of the airport.

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