Enables Beyond Visual Line of Sight Flight for Uncrewed
Aircraft to Scale Safe Operations
TULSA,
Okla., June 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Vigilant
Aerospaces' FlightHorizon airspace management and uncrewed traffic
management (UTM) system has been selected as the airspace
management system for the Skyway36 droneport in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Skyway36 is a leading
droneport in the United States and
serves as an "airport for drones" and for larger Advanced Air
Mobility (AAM) aircraft, like air taxis.
Vigilant Aerospace is a provider of multi-sensor
detect-and-avoid and airspace management software for uncrewed
aircraft systems (UAS) and advanced air mobility (AAM). With
FlightHorizon, Skyway36 will be able to track and coordinate
drones, detect intruding aircraft and provide a safe environment
for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flight of drones, which is
essential for growing the UAS industry.
Skyway36 is the Osage Nation's aerospace innovation zone,
providing dedicated facilities for UAS flights. It is designed to
support advanced air mobility and drone missions including survey
drones, first responder drones, autonomous delivery aircraft and
other missions. The facility includes a state-of-the-art UAS indoor
test facility operated by Windshape, hangar and office space under
development, a 3,000-foot runway suitable for larger, fixed-wing
drones, and a certified helipad for both conventional helicopters
and for new electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles
(eVTOLs).
The site is managed by DronePort Network, under contract to
Osage LLC and is the first commercial node on the Skyway Range
Flight Corridor, a 114-nautical mile drone corridor and one of the
most ambitious advanced air mobility projects in the nation. Skyway
Range consists of four major nodes for autonomous flight testing
along multiple routes and is supported in part by a grant from the
US Economic Development Administration.
Quote from Craig Mahaney, CEO
of DronePort Network
"As autonomous flight gathers momentum,
we're seeing a growing number of flights from droneports like
Skyway36. To scale safely and successfully, we must ensure an
environment designed to enable long-distance drone flights, air
traffic monitoring and advanced safety systems. Vigilant
Aerospace's FlightHorizon allows Skyway36 to provide these services
and to attract more operators by providing a world-class facility
and technology for a wide variety of uncrewed flight operations and
testing."
Quote from Russell Goff, CEO
of Osage, LLC
"Skyway36 is
working to provide and build premium infrastructure and this
partnership with Vigilant Aerospace and its FlightHorizon system
helps to keep us at the forefront of the industry. As an officially
designated Tech Hub by the U.S. Economic Development
Administration, the Tulsa region
and our droneport can play an important role in the national
development of autonomous systems."
Quote from Kraettli L. Epperson, CEO of Vigilant
Aerospace
"Skyway36 provides a significant capability
not just regionally but nationally for furthering autonomous flight
Installing FlightHorizon at one of the nation's first commercial
droneports is a milestone for the industry and helps to set the
standard for shared infrastructure at droneports everywhere. Being
the first node on the Skyway Range Flight Corridor also provides
significant opportunities to make Skyway36 and this region a
national proving ground."
FlightHorizon is based on two NASA patents and fuses data from a
range of sources including aircraft transponders, radar, drone
autopilots, and live FAA data to create a single picture of
airspace around a drone. The software predicts trajectories and
provides standards-compliant avoidance commands to the remote
pilot.
About Skyway36 Droneport
The new Skyway36 droneport is
located in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is
designed to serve as a hub for drone operations in the region. The
droneport is a project of Osage LLC, a company focused on
developing and investing in advanced technologies and
infrastructure and is an enterprise of the Osage Nation, a
federally recognized Native American tribal government with
headquarters in Pawhuska,
Oklahoma. More information: Skyway36 Droneport and
Technology Innovation Center - Osage LLC
About Vigilant Aerospace Systems
Vigilant Aerospace is
the leading developer of multi-sensor detect-and-avoid and airspace
management software for uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS or drones).
We enable safe and scalable autonomous flight, beyond visual line
of sight. Customers include NASA, the FAA, the U.S. Department of
Defense and a variety of drone development programs. More
information: www.vigilantaerospace.com
Contacts:
Skyway36
Aaron
Baker
378621@email4pr.com
P: 918-960-0259
DronePort Network
Craig
Mahaney
378621@email4pr.com
Vigilant Aerospace
378621@email4pr.com
P: +1 405.445.7224 x106
Follow us on LinkedIn @vigilantaero
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