The National Consortium for Aviation Mobility

-NCAM-

In Partnership with NASA's

Small Aircraft Transportation System

Wright Brothers Poster
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Danville Demonstration Pavilion

Chairof NCAM Board presenting Danville Mayor SATS

North Carolina and Upper Great Plains (NC&UGP)  SATSLab

Small Aircraft Transportation System Laboratory

Team

The goal of the NC&UGP SATSLab Team is to develop and demonstrate the technology for a safe, cost-effective complement to the current scheduled air carrier, hub-and-spoke service.  This complimentary air service would extend the benefits of convenient, affordable air transportation to our Nations small communities.  In accomplishing this goal, technology demonstrations will be conducted to verify that the four SATS operating capabilities (lower landing minimums, higher volume operations at non-towered, non-radar airports, improved single pilot performance, and NAS integration) have been achieved.  Even more compelling, transportation service demonstrations will be conducted to show that SATS service is safe, reliable, comfortable, environmentally compatible, and cost effective.  In addition, the service demonstrations must show a smooth integration of SATS service into the existing and evolving National Airspace System (NAS).  Furthermore, the service demonstrations will measure the extent to which the SATS technologies enable the service, and the value of that service to the communities served.

The partners in the NC&UGP SATSLab Team include:

·        State Aviation Authorities  

North Carolina, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, North Dakota, and South Dakota

·        Small Non-Towered  Airports

Dare County Regional Airport, Manteo, NC; Northeastern Regional Airport, Edenton, NC; Rocky Mount-Wilson Regional airport, Rocky Mount, NC; Warren Field, Washington, NC; Andrews-Murphy Airport, Andrews, NC; and

Oklahoma Centennial Airport, Langston University, Oklahoma City, OK

·        Suppliers of CNS Hardware and Software

UPS Aviation Technologies, Rannoch, Nav3D, and MITRE

·        Air Transportation Operators

Piedmont Hawthorne Aviation, Telford Aviation, United Airlines,

Flight International, and Atlantic Aero

·        Academic Partners

University of Nebraska - Omaha, University of Kansas,

University of North Carolina - Kenan Institute, and Langston University

·        Consultants

Hoh Aeronautics and Human-Machine Solutions, Ltd.

·        Systems Engineers

RTI International     

Key Technology Work

Organization

Last modified: March 17, 2005