TORONTO, Jan. 15, 2018 /CNW/ - Drone Delivery Canada
'DDC or the Company' (TSX.V:FLT OTC:TAKOF) is pleased to
announce that it's expanding its commercial testing program to
the United States of America at
the New York Griffiss International Airport UAS Test Site, located
in Rome, New York in Q1,
2018.
The Company anticipates that the US Pilot Program will then run
through the balance of the year. This new initiative expands DDCs
testing program to include geographies within the United States utilizing its Sparrow X1000
drone which just recently achieved Compliant UAV Status with
Transport Canada (December 2017). For
testing, DDCs will utilize its own proprietary FLYTE management
software that is designed to support semi-autonomous flight as well
as BVLOS (beyond visual line of site) flights designed for
commercial drone deliveries.
"We have very strong interest from multiple commercial customers
in the USA that not only want to
test our drone delivery platform in Canada, but also in their own Country as well.
This pilot program will act as an extension of our primary Canadian
initiatives and will expand our data collection ability. The
FAA approved Rome, N.Y. site was
made available to us by the progressive initiatives of the FAA and
provides an ideal testing environment to achieve our customers'
requests," commented Tony Di
Benedetto, CEO. "While collectively working with our
key Canadian stakeholders and the invaluable support of Transport
Canada and the Canadian Federal Government which has allowed us to
progress to this point, we now look to put Canada on the forefront of commercial drone
delivery technology on a global stage with our first expansion
occurring south of the border," added Di
Benedetto.
The Griffiss International Airport unmanned aircraft systems
(UAS) test site in Rome, N.Y., is
a USA Department of
Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved
facility designated to conduct research vital to integrating UAS
into the national airspace system (NAS). The site is the fifth of
six test sites that are operational in the U.S.
The US testing initiatives will complement DDC's extensive
Canadian testing program scheduled for 2018, which will include
testing its Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) capabilities at the
Transport Canada approved UAS Centre of Excellence located in
Alma, Quebec.
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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