Shannon secures EU funding for unmanned flight tests

A consortium has now been approved to develop a ‘Digital Sky Demonstrator’, for aerial Unmanned Traffic Management systems.

A computer-generated image of a vertiport that is proposed for Shannon.

A European consortium developing new technologies at Shannon for the rapidly-growing drone and unmanned flight sector has been approved for EU funding.

The Future Mobility Campus Ireland (FMCI), located in the Shannon Free Zone, is a research and testing ground where new systems and technologies can be developed that could help further develop new technologies such as drone delivery systems, light-freight, long-distance logistics, and air-taxi operations.