100% Successful Operations on Approved Flight
Path
TORONTO, Oct. 2, 2018
/CNW/ - Drone Delivery Canada 'DDC or the Company' (TSX.V:FLT
OTC:TAKOF), is pleased to announce that the Company conducted
numerous successful drone delivery test flights in the communities
of Moosonee and Moose Factory, Ontario as part of DDC's Beyond
Visual Line-of-Sight (BVLOS) Pilot Project 'BVLOS Pilot
Project.' Operations under the BVLOS Pilot Project were
approved by both Transport Canada and NAV
CANADA and were flown in the Class E controlled airspace
surrounding the Moosonee
airport.
DDC's BVLOS Pilot Project commenced on September 17, 2018 and was completed on
September 28, 2018. The
Pilot Project flight operations were conducted in both day time and
evenings on a set of approved flight paths. Throughout the Pilot
Project, DDC worked closely with Transport Canada and NAV CANADA to ensure safety while also
demonstrating the efficiency and efficacy of its Sparrow drone as
well as its proprietary FLYTE management system. DDC is pleased to
report that no flight safety incidents occurred, and each mission
was completed successfully.
DDC's Sparrow X1000 cargo drone and DDC's proprietary FLYTE
management system successfully delivered medical supplies, dry
blood spots kits for HIV, Hepatitis C and general blood chemistry
testing, as well as food, automotive parts and general parcels for
many of DDC's customers which were present for the Pilot Project.
These flights were conducted both to and from Moosonee and Moose
Factory.
It is noteworthy that Drone Delivery Canada was approved to
conduct its BVLOS Pilot Project in controlled airspace and while
communicating on standard aviation frequencies in accordance with
the Canadian Aviation Regulations. These are the same frequencies
and communications protocols used for general aviation and
commercial aircraft. Under the BVLOS Pilot Project, DDC was
assigned the call sign "Sparrow 1".
"We achieved our mission flawlessly," commented Paul Di Benedetto, CTO. "On behalf of the
Company I would like to sincerely and publicly thank the staff from
the Transport Canada RPAS Task Force, NAV
CANADA, The Moose Cree First Nation, the community of
Moosonee, the MoCreebec community
and all the team at DDC for the tireless effort put forth. The
collaboration by all parties provided critical data which will set
the foundation for success and further solidify the great working
relationship between Government and DDC."
"Living in Canada's north comes with challenges. The community
was extremely excited to see the benefits of DDC's drone delivery
solution as a means to help mitigate our daily challenges, improve
our logistics, lower our costs and bring employment to our region.
We are very happy to be working with Drone Delivery Canada and see
the immense benefit to our community and to other communities in
the region," commented Stan
Kapashesit, Director of Economic Development Moose Cree
First Nation.
In Canada, there are approximately one thousand remote
communities, and almost all face similar infrastructure and
logistics challenges that contribute to a high cost of living. DDC
looks to provide a cost effective and highly efficient logistic
solution to these communities to improve lives and to create jobs
in Canada's north all while reducing costs.
"We are very thankful to the authorities for approving our
flight path to connect these communities," commented Tony Di Benedetto, CEO of Drone Delivery
Canada. "It is not an easy feat at all to achieve what we have
accomplished. DDC has created an innovative logistic solution
allowing a drone to deliver parcels in non-segregated Canadian
airspace. As a starting point we intend on targeting outlying
communities which experience on-going and difficult infrastructure
challenges. To address these challenges, in the not so distant
future we will work closely with Transport Canada and NAV CANADA in order to deploy our technology and
establish 'railways in the sky' where our drones can integrate into
existing Canadian airspace to connect communities to one another
and provide efficient and cost-effective means of
delivery."
DDC will be providing a video detailing the Pilot Project to
shareholders and interested parties and anticipates a release date
in approximately 10 days time.
For more information, please visit
www.dronedeliverycanada.com
About Drone Delivery Canada
Drone Delivery Canada is a drone technology company focused on
the design, development and implementation of its proprietary
logistics software platform, using drones. The Company's platform
will be used as Software as a Service (SaaS) for government and
corporate organizations.
Drone Delivery Canada Corp. is a publicly listed company trading
on the TSX V Exchange under the symbol FLT, on the U.S. OTC Q B
market under the symbol TAKOF and on the Frankfurt exchange in Germany under the symbol A2AMGZ.
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