Oregon Deploying Sensis ADS-B Transceivers at Six State Airports

Oregon will deploy UAT (universal access transceiver) ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast) ground-based units from Sensis Corporation at six general aviation airports across the state.

The GBTs (ground-based transceivers) will allow aircraft equipped with TIS (traffic information service) and FIS (flight information service) avionics to receive broadcasted traffic and weather information in real time, and with graphics, as part of state's $100M ConnectOregon initiative.

The six airports are Eastern Oregon Regional, Baker City Municipal, Burns Municipal, Roberts Field, North Bend Municipal, and Grant County Regional Airport/Ogilvie Field.  These will be paired with units recently provided by the FAA at three other Oregon airports - McNary Field, Mahlon Sweet Field and Rogue Valley International - to give traffic and weather data to GA aircraft flying throughout the state, according to Oregon officials.

"Installation of the ADS-B GBTs will provide valuable information to pilots while positioning Oregon to be at the frontier of future nationwide air traffic surveillance capabilities," said Dan Clem, Director, Oregon's Department of Aviation director.

Sensis supplied ADS-B transceivers to the FAA as part of the Alaskan Capstone program and the Future Surveillance program on the U.S. East Coast, Arizona and North Dakota. The company says it also fielded the industry's first operational ADS-B transceivers for both the Mode S ES (extended squitter) and UAT datalinks in Australia in 2004 and Alaska in 2005, respectively.  04-19-2007.

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