FAA MAAP at Virginia Tech Agreement for Testing UAS
Barron Associates has entered an agreement to work with the Federal Aviation Agency’s (FAA) Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership (MAAP) for flight testing of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). MAAP is located at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, Virginia, and was designated by the FAA to be one of six official test sites for UAS. The first aircraft to be flight tested under the agreement were designed and built by Barron Associates for the U.S. Army.