FAA: Ag Focused Drone Group A-OK To Fly In 2015

Posted by Matthew J. Grassi|January 7, 2015

Agriculture drone enthusiast Robert Blair (TheUnmannedFarmer.blogspot.com) has alerted us that Empire Unmanned, an outfit made up of Boise, ID-based Advanced Aviation Solutions (ADAVSO), Empire Airlines (Hayden, ID) and Blair himself, has received an FAA Section 333 Exemption to fly commercial UAV missions nationwide over farmers’ fields in 2015.

“The news just came out on Monday and we’re obviously excited as all-get-out, like a kid in a candy shop on Christmas Day with a pocket full of money. For me this is something I’ve been working on since 2006, to fly commercially, so its exciting” says Blair. “And this is not just an approval for research, we will be doing commercial, for-profit flying in 2015 under Empire Unmanned.”

Read the full story, as well as a link to the press release from FAA on the exemption, on PrecisionAg.com.