The HIVE UAS Tech Accelerator in Grand Forks, ND

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved uAvionix, an avionics company specializing in drones, to conduct beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) small unmanned aircraft flights in ND. This approval expands access to fly in a broader area BVLOS leveraging the Vantis Network. UAvionix, with support from the Northern Plains UAS Test Site, demonstrated that it established adequate risk mitigations to satisfy required safety standards for the specified BVLOS operation within the national airspace system.