# News Source Record

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

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 5 January 2012 |
| 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; Reaper; drones; unmanned aerial vehicles |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | The Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York) |
| Title | 174th a step closer to flying Reapers out of Hancock (Schumer / FAA test sites) |
| Dateline | Washington / Syracuse, New York |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.newspapers.com/image/1246621684/?terms=Hancock |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2012-01-05|post-standard|hancock-174th-reaper-faa-schumer |
| Source grade | A1 |

## Pictures

- page: 2012-01-05-post-standard-hancock-reaper-page.jpg Drive (pending upload)

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — A1]** Mark Weiner of The Post-Standard Washington bureau reported that the Air National Guard’s 174th Fighter Wing is a step closer to gaining federal permission to fly unmanned Reaper drones out of its base at Hancock Field, according to U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer. The 174th has been trying for almost five years to convince the Federal Aviation Administration to allow flights of the MQ-9 Reaper drones out of Hancock Field. The FAA bans such unmanned flights because of concerns about the remotely piloted drones flying (in civil airspace). Schumer said he pushed for the establishment of six Hancock-relevant test spots, instead of the planned four, to improve the chances that Hancock Field would be included. Hancock Field, which will eventually host a full squadron of Reaper drones, has the largest potential training space in the Northeast. Most of those drones are now remotely operated in Afghanistan and Iraq by pilots at the Mattydale base. Schumer said Hancock already meets FAA requirements for unmanned aerial vehicles. The senator noted Hancock Field’s assets including the large open spaces of Lake Ontario and the Adirondack Park. FAA officials had no immediate comment. Col. Kevin Bradley, commander of the 174th Fighter Wing, has said that any Reaper drones that eventually fly out of Hancock would not be equipped with missiles or bombs.

**Kinematic object.** MQ-9 Reaper (174th FW Hancock Field — FAA local-flight bid).

**Coverage frame.** military / airspace policy

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: Post-Standard staff Washington bureau on the local Hancock Reaper COA/test-site fight.
- Wire reprint status: Staff-written. Not AP/Reuters/McClatchy.
- OCR / image-page caveats: Tesseract on A3. Hed not fully locked; facts are from the Weiner byline block.
- What was excluded: Adjacent Van Buren homicide notes on the same page.

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Passport. A Watch desk would have logged a Senate push to add FAA UAS test sites specifically to unstick Hancock Reaper local takeoffs.

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

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