AO Flight has been notified that we are on the winning team with InteliTrac for a SOF Core Services Support contract to provide UAS services. This contract vehicle allows support contracts across a broad spectrum of SOF units for a … Read More »
Michael Baker, International, a global engineering firm was recently awarded a 50 state NASPO contract that allows local and state agencies access to AO Flight UAS support through this contract vehicle. The Master Contract Vehicle has been approved and is … Read More »
AO Flight accomplished something on the 11th of December that no other company has ever done…we flew at night over the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service “Disaster City” complex supporting one of our special customers. Not only is AO Flight … Read More »
AO Flight just completed a very intense four days of ISR support for our great friends at IDIS Corp. The flights included both day and night operations using our EO/IR MkII camera in support of helicopter insertions/extractions, jump operations and … Read More »
On Tuesday, the 5th of November, the AO Flight team flew two demonstration flights for the Natural Resources Management Branch at Ft. Hood, Texas during the morning Range down time. The two flights were flown from OP Phantom into PD94, … Read More »
AO Flight recently received authorization from the FAA to conduct Commercial sUAS Flight Operations at night. This new capability will allow the company to conduct aerial surveillance operations around the clock in support of our customers needs. AO Flight is … Read More »
COLLEGE STATION, TX – 26 April, 2018 AO Flight Applications, LLC has received credentialing through the National Unmanned Aircraft Systems Credentialing Program (NUASCP), a program developed by the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) and the Lone Star UAS Center … Read More »
AO Flight is in the final stages of securing an agreement to provide support operations for the City of Georgetown Emergency Services Management division using our highly capable SkyRanger™ quad-copter units and our completely self contained Flight Operations Support … Read More »
AO Flight just successfully completed a very complex and highly coordinated aerial photography and video mission in downtown College Station. Halff Associates, Inc., an Architectural and Engineering firm from Austin, Texas contracted us to provide some very detailed high … Read More »
The new Flight Operations Support Vehicle is now in Texas sporting its beautiful new eye-catching graphics. Once a few minor modifications are completed, the staff of AO Flight will take it on a short tour to show it’s unique … Read More »
AO Flight has just received our final approval and registration with the US Government for the System for Award Management (SAM) as a Service Disabled, Veteran Owned Small Business, or SDVOSB. This will allow AO Flight to bid and win … Read More »
AO Flight has purchased a used Medium Duty Ambulance that is being converted into our Flight Operations Support Vehicle for unparalleled field support. This 2003 International 4300 Medium Duty truck is in fantastic shape and will allow the staff to … Read More »
On Thursday, the 22nd of June, Skip Tackett and Carl David briefed the entire Texas A&M Safety Council at multiple sites via Teleconference on the unique capabilities of AO Flight at the Texas A&M campus in Kingsville, Texas. What was … Read More »
As of June 20th, 2017, the very unique AO Flight Logo is now officially registered with the US Patent and Trademark Office! It has been a very eye catching design from day 1 and will continue to be our logo … Read More »
On the 19th and 20th of May 2017, Utility Aviation Inc. hosted the annual Ribs and Rods 2017 car show and BBQ cook-off at their enormous aviation complex located at the Draughon-Miller Regional Airport in Temple, Texas. This charity event … Read More »
Carl David, one of our founding members has just completed the Aeryon pilot course in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and is now a certified factory trained remote pilot. Carl will now take the test to obtain his FAA Remote PIC license. … Read More »
The staff of AO Flight will be attending the Xponential conference in Dallas, Texas. (http://www.xponential.org/xponential2017/public/enter.aspx) Come join us and visit the largest unmanned conference of it’s type in the world.
On Wednesday, May 3rd, AO Flight attended a mini-conference at the request of Dr, Mladen Kezunovic, the Director of of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and his SmartGrid staff. (http://tees.tamu.edu/) Skip Tackett, the CEO and Chief Pilot of … Read More »
AO Flight has recently upgraded one of our primary workhorse cameras to the brand new Aeryon Labs SR-EO/IR MkII imaging payload with Vector advanced video processing. Vector is a high-performance embedded computing platform that is dedicated to real-time advanced video … Read More »
Jim Ledford, one of our sUAS PIC’s and Data Acquistion and Processing Specialists will be attending the Texas Power and Energy Conference in College Station, Texas on February 9th and 10th. The TPEC Conference focuses on areas of electric power … Read More »
On the 9th of October, AO Flight flew a very complex support mission for an aerial live fire gunnery range involving a helicopter. Utility Aviation, Inc. of Ft. Collins, CO and G&T Outfitters of Belton, TX executed their first … Read More »
After waiting on the FAA almost 8 months, AO Flight is finally legally authorized to go to work! Skip, our Chief Pilot has his approved temporary FAA Remote Pilot license and we can now fly our SkyRanger™ for Commercial Operations. … Read More »
Our factory flight training certification at the Aeryon facility in Waterloo, Ontario is complete and AO Flight Applications has its first two factory trained and certified remote pilots – Brick Brown and Skip Tackett. The final flight period was a … Read More »
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