Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
HAI Open to UAS
The organization welcomed UAS exhibitors to Heli-Expo for the first time, and introduced a new membership category to accommodate them.

“UAS, I think, is probably one of the biggest innovations that has come out in technology,” stated HAI president and CEO Matt Zuccaro at the start of yesterday’s discussion on unmanned aerial systems (UAS). For the first time in its existence, Heli-Expo played host to UAS exhibitors this year, five of them in fact. Over the past year, HAI established a 20-member UAS committee, and at the annual membership breakfast here in Louisville, a new UAS membership category open to any organization or individual who operates unmanned systems exclusively, was proposed and unanimously accepted.