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Paris Air Show: Falco to enter commercial airspace

20th June 2017 - 11:14 GMT | by Beth Maundrill in Paris

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Leonardo is aiming to get ahead of anticipated regulations on the use of UAVs in civil airspace as its lines up its Falco UAV and accompanying services for commercial use.

As part of the approach the company has recently opened a new business unit within its airborne and space systems division, the air service operations unit, which will play a pivotal part of the strategy.

Speaking at the Paris Air Show, Fabrizio Boggiani, senior VP for support and service solutions, airborne and space systems division at Leonardo said, ‘The Falco is already carrying out missions but the usual domain is

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