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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 December 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 vehicles; unmanned aerial vehicle |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | East Oregonian (Pendleton, Oregon) |
| Title | Pendleton approved for drone tests |
| Dateline | Pendleton, Oregon |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.newspapers.com/image/1179137427/?terms=drone |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2013-12-31|east-oregonian|pendleton-faa-drone-test-range |
| Source grade | A1 |

## Pictures

- page A1: 2013-12-31-east-oregonian-pendleton-drone-tests-page.jpg
- page 10A: 2013-12-31-east-oregonian-pendleton-drone-tests-10a.jpg
- clips folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12wYYuLheAkr2POrfp-By56Phe8bXQsKv

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — A1]** Natalie Wheeler of the East Oregonian reported that the runway is clear for Pendleton to become a test range for commercial drones. The Federal Aviation Administration announced Monday six entities approved for commercial testing of unmanned aerial vehicles. One of the approved groups, the University of Alaska, will use Pendleton as one of 18 testing sites in Oregon, Hawaii and Alaska. Warm Springs and Tillamook will also be used as test ranges in Oregon. Steve Chrisman, Pendleton economic development coordinator, said of the FAA testing designation: “It doesn’t guarantee that the industry will come here, but it makes it way more appealing.” The city has been positioning itself as a drone-friendly site for the last couple of years. In May, the Oregon National Guard got a Certificate of Authorization to fly its surveillance drone out of the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport. In October, the city hosted hundreds of drone-industry entrepreneurs for their yearly Pacific Northwest conference. File photo: Spc. Marcus Kellogg, Spc. Max Kellogg and Sgt. Sean Fuqua with the Oregon Army National Guard load an RQ-7B Shadow unmanned aerial vehicle onto a launcher in May at the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport. Jump, page 10A: Pendleton now has 180 days to put safety standards in place for its testing range. Mayor Phillip Houk said a lot of people throughout Oregon and Pendleton have been working to create a footprint so the city would be prepared to take on the designation; he wants Airport Road utilities extended at a cost of about $1.5 million if industry moves in. Although Alaska is the lead agency on the multi-state application, 25 different groups throughout Oregon, Hawaii and Alaska will collaborate. OSU unmanned-vehicle consortium president Rick Spinrad said Oregon and Hawaii’s diverse landscapes and Alaska’s drone knowledge make for a powerful combination; the University of Alaska will focus on developing “search and avoid” techniques. The FAA picked the six out of 25 applicants. The other approved groups are the state of Nevada, New York’s Griffiss International Airport, the North Dakota Department of Commerce, Texas A&M University, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

**Kinematic object.** Civil UAS test range (Pendleton / University of Alaska consortium); RQ-7B Shadow (Oregon Army National Guard at EORA).

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

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: East Oregonian staff byline on the local Pendleton FAA test-range designation. Not the AP six-site wire.
- Wire reprint status: Staff-written (Natalie Wheeler). Adjacent Russia-bombings brief is AP (Vladimir Isachenkov); the drone package is Wheeler / East Oregonian.
- OCR / image-page caveats: Tesseract on A1 and 10A. A1 columns interleave with a Jacob Appelbaum teaser and tobacco-ban story. 10A jump interleaves with the tobacco continuation.
- What was excluded: County tobacco-ban story; Hermiston music-teacher feature; AP Volgograd bombings.

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Passport. A Watch desk would have logged Pendleton as a named box inside the Alaska-led FAA UAS test-site win, with a 180-day safety-standard clock and an existing Guard Shadow COA at EORA.

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