# News Source Record

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

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 17 December 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 | Reaper; drone; unmanned aircraft |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | The Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York) |
| Title | Reaper drone makes history in Syracuse |
| Dateline | Syracuse, New York |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.newspapers.com/image/1155513712/?terms=Reaper |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2015-12-17|post-standard|hancock-reaper-first-commercial-airport |
| Source grade | A1 |

## Pictures

- page: 2015-12-17-post-standard-page.jpg Drive (pending upload)

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — A1]** Rick Moriarty (rmoriarty@syracuse.com) of The Post-Standard reported that an Air National Guard MQ-9 Reaper took off Wednesday from Syracuse Hancock International Airport, becoming the first unmanned aircraft in the nation to launch from a commercial airport. The remotely piloted Reaper from the guard’s 174th Attack Wing took off from the airport. Caption: A MQ-9 Reaper drone takes off Wednesday from Hancock Field. It was the first drone flight at the base for the Air National Guard’s 174th Attack Wing. A6 jump 1155513744 not extracted.

**Kinematic object.** MQ-9 Reaper (174th Attack Wing — first commercial-airport launch, Hancock Field).

**Coverage frame.** military / airspace milestone

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: Post-Standard staff byline on the local Hancock first-takeoff.
- Wire reprint status: Staff-written. Not AP/Reuters/McClatchy.
- OCR / image-page caveats: A1 teaser plus photo caption. Body is cut at the takeoff sentence; A6 jump not extracted. Hed locked.
- What was excluded: Fed rate-hike teaser and county pay-raise package.

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Passport. A Watch desk would have logged the first U.S. unmanned takeoff from a commercial airport — an MQ-9 leaving Hancock/Syracuse.

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

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