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Virginia innovation group seeks York County permission to host sensors for drone test corridor
Summary
Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation and Virginia Department of Aviation asked the York County Board of Supervisors to allow installation of low‑cost sensors on county property to test drone detect-and-avoid systems and support beyond‑visual‑line‑of‑sight operations tied to FAA safety cases.
Chris Sadler, director at the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation’s Public Safety Innovation Center, and Scott Denney, advanced air mobility program manager for the Virginia Department of Aviation, told the York County Board of Supervisors on Oct. 21 that Virginia is building a test network for low‑altitude airspace and wants to site detection sensors inside the Hampton Roads region.
Sadler said the Commonwealth has awarded $1 million for planning and test sites, including Stafford Regional Airport, and that Virginia wants to expand a sensor corridor into Hampton Roads. “We’re asking York County to help us in what we’re doing,” Sadler said, describing plug‑in sensors that feed detect‑and‑avoid information to flight…
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