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Avenger UAV makes initial flight - News
November 14, 2016
POWAY, Calif. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) announced that it has completed the initial flight of its Avenger Extended Range (ER) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), an extended-range version of its multimission jet-powered Predator C Avenger craft, which has accumulated over 13,000 flight hours to date. GA-ASI says that the flight took place on October 27th at the company's Gray Butte Flight Operations Facility in Palmdale, California.
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Predator C Avenger gets FAA experimental certificate - News
July 11, 2016
FARNBOROUGH, United Kingdom. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA?ASI), officials announced that its company-owned Predator C Avenger unmanned aircraft system (UAS) received a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-issued Experimental Certificate (EC), enabling it to perform routine operations in the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS). The announcement was made this week at the Farnborough International Air Show.
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Passive radar system is integrated on GA-ASI's Predator B - News
July 08, 2016
SAN DIEGO. Raytheon Deutschland GmbH and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA?ASI) engineers will integrate the Advanced Radar Detection System (ARDS) ? an Electronic Support Measure (ESM) system for passive radar monitoring ? on a standard pod that will be mounted on the centerline hard point of GA-ASI?s unmanned aerial system (UAS), the Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper.
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Certifiable Predator B from GA-ASI finishes fuselage integrity testing - News
May 05, 2016
SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA?ASI), officials announced that the company completed fuselage structural integrity testing of its Certifiable Predator B (CPB) unmanned aircraft system (UAS).
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Flight tests will aid in developing FAA UAS regulations - News
April 19, 2016
WASHINGTON. Beginning the end of April through June, Honeywell, General Atomics Aeronautics Systems, Inc (GA-ASI), the RTCA Special Committee (SC)-228, and NASA will conduct the fourth flight test in a series of demonstrations that will help engineers validate and advance technologies for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) as they integrate into the National Airspace System (NAS).
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Predator B Extended Range aircraft increases flight time - News
March 03, 2016
WASHINGTON. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), officials announced the first flight of Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper Extended Range (ER) Long Wing, which is retrofitted with enhanced long-endurance wings with more internal fuel capacity and additional hard points for carrying external stores.
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U.S. State Department approves MQ-9 Reaper weaponization equipment for Italy - News
November 06, 2015
WASHINGTON. Italy has received approval from the State Department on a possible Foreign Military Sale for weaponization of MQ-9s - an unmanned aerial system - and its associated parts, logistical support, and equipment. The sale is estimated at $129.6 million.
