Seville airport, in Spain, was the scenario last week of an inspection and calibration operation, carried out by Canard Drones. It was the first in Spain with coordination of drones in controlled airspace within the airport while the airport was fully operational. The works were carried out both at day […]

Thursday the 19th of December, on request of LVNL (air navigation services provider from Netherlands), CANARD performed a demo on Groningen Airport Eelde to demonstrate the use of our drone solution for ILS calibration measurements.

On December 2019, CANARD performed one of the most interesting works that we have done so far... It actually isn't an airport inspection, but it has to do with airports and landing. We flew our drones next to the approach of runway 32R at Madrid Barajas Airport (MAD) during the […]

The VAWG (Visual Aids Working Group) of the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization), at its eighteenth meeting, proposed raising the inclusion of PAPI calibration procedures with UAVs in its ADM4 document (Aerodrome Design Manual, Part 4) to the ICAO Secretariat. Canard Drones assisted in the elaboration of the procedure, and […]

On the night of November 25th, CANARD performed the inspection of 2 PAPI systems at Paris-Orly Airport, operated by AdP. The runway was the recently renamed 07/25 (previously 08/26). This is the 5th operation by CANARD in France, proof of the trust that AdP has put into our solutions and […]

Canard Drones and AENA (The Spanish Airport Operator) have signed a collaboration agreement, to evaluate and validate the results of research and development in the field of maintenance of airport pavements and infrastructure. It includes inspection and calibration of air navigation aid systems, as well as of the generation and […]

The Spanish Air Force is working in the validation of the ILS receiver developed by Canard Drones, as well as the associated tools (drone & SW) for its potential use in the calibration of ILS. This project, which started in December 2018 with the Spanish Air Force and DGAM (Dirección […]

Last October 18th, CANARD successfully conducted the first PAPI inspection with drones in Italy. The whole operation, including the planning and authorisations took just 1 week, as ENAC (the Italian CAA), offered the opportunity of testing CANARD's solution at Milan-Linate airport. The operation included the inspection of the PAPI systems […]

On the night of Thursday October 17th, 2019 CANARD successfully conducted the first Visual Aids inspection with RPAs in a Swiss airport. The scenario was Geneva International Airport (GVA/LMGG), the 2nd busiest airport in Switzerland. The airport has a single concrete runway (04/22), which is the longest in Switzerland with […]