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C-600 Large UAV Completes Flight Test in Scotland's Sustainable Aviation Test Environment
ARC Aerosystems says its C-600 VTOL drone is the largest in Europe with a 26-foot wingspan and a payload of 220 pounds.
ARC Aerosystems' C-600 uncrewed air vehicle
ARC Aerosystems' C-600 uncrewed air vehicle has conducted tethered flights at Wick John O'Groats Airport in Scotland. (image: ARC Aerosystems)

The UK’s Sustainable Aviation Test Environment (SATE) consortium has conducted a flight trial with ARC Aerosystems’ C-600 uncrewed air vehicle (UAV). Working with Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd. (HIAL), the manufacturer conducted a tethered flight test at Wick John O’Groats Airport in the north of Scotland.

The SATE project is based in the nearby Orkney Islands and is focused on how UAVs and other electric aircraft could improve transportation between rural communities in an environmentally sustainable way. Based at Kirkwall Airport, it is the UK’s first low-carbon aviation test center at a commercial airport.