Monday open house set for ACUASI色视频下载檚 new Nenana drone hangar

Rod Boyce
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Sept. 12, 2024

ACUASI drone flies at Nenana airport
Photo by Rod Boyce
ACUASI色视频下载檚 SeaHunter aircraft flies out of Nenana Municipal Airport on May 5, 2022.

A public open house for the new Nenana hangar of the 色视频下载 Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration is scheduled for 2-4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16.

ACUASI is a part of the University of 色视频下载 Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. 

UAF Chancellor Dan White, UAF Vice Chancellor for Research Nettie LaBelle-Hamer, University of 色视频下载 Regent Dennis Michel, UAF Geophysical Institute Associate Director Laura Conner and ACUASI Director Cathy Cahill are scheduled to attend.

The hangar is located at Nenana Municipal Airport, which is owned and operated by the city of Nenana. Access is from the Parks Highway about one mile south of the city色视频下载檚 business district.

The University of 色视频下载 Board of Regents approved funding for the in February 2023. 

The hangar will serve as a base for drone cargo test flights between Fairbanks and Nenana. It will also serve as a home for other innovative autonomous systems technology development and testing as a part of the new ACUASI Emerging Technologies Test Range Network.

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