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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 | 23 January 2015 |
| 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; UAS; Pendleton; FAA |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | East Oregonian (Pendleton, Oregon) |
| Title | Drone range negotiations near to bearing flying fruit |
| Dateline | Pendleton, Oregon |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://eastoregonian.com/2015/01/23/drone-range-negotiationsnear-to-bearing-flying-fruit/ |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2015-01-23|east-oregonian|pendleton-uas-range-first-paying-customers |
| Source grade | A1 |

## Pictures

- page scan: not downloaded this pass (img CDN 429 — download rate limit). IAT minted from signed-in session. Extract locked from contemporaneous web first-publisher, not Tesseract.
- clips folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vXHLTJaJN6V5eWhhGKAB_ObEa0zYttcd

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — A1]** The East Oregonian reported (2:32 p.m. Friday, 23 January 2015) that a little more than a year after Pendleton was approved as a UAS test site, the range’s first paying customers could be imminent. Economic Development Director Steve Chrisman said contracts are close to being signed by two companies interested in testing drones at the Pendleton UAS Range. Company names and the standard rate have not been released; Chrisman said most UAS firms make the city sign a nondisclosure agreement at the start of talks. Eleven companies and organizations are obtaining FAA authorization to run tests at the range; four applications are already authorized, with two of those in city negotiations. Three months in, the FAA recently told airport staff all drones would need identification numbers, adding about 60 days. All payments for UAS testing will go to the city, which will then pay Peak 3 Technical Services and other managers. The city hired Eastern Oregon University business student David Anderson to help market the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport.

**Kinematic object.** Pendleton UAS Range (civil test site — first paying-customer contracts pending; FAA ID-number delay).

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

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: East Oregonian staff on the local Pendleton range contracting stand-up. Not the AP six-site wire.
- Wire reprint status: Staff-written. Newspapers.com 2015 EO Pendleton+drone hits in the leftover set were thin (Sunday Oregonian 22 Mar); this keeper is the web first-publisher. Print page not opened (CDN 429).
- What was excluded: Statewide SOAR/Alaska fee-structure color except as Chrisman quotes.

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Passport. A Watch desk would have logged Pendleton still unsigned with two NDA’d customers while FAA added a 60-day aircraft-ID step onto an already-designated test range.

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