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FAA Forecasts More Than 400 Percent Growth In Small UAS Sales By 2020

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, March 24th, 2016

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FAA Forecasts More Than 400 Percent Growth In Small UAS Sales By 2020

Phoenix 30 Quad Rotor Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Photo: UAV Solutions, Inc.

Unit sales of commercial non-model small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) are expected to climb more than 400 percent between 2016 and 2020, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says in a 20-year commercial aviation forecast.The FAA Aerospace Forecast Fiscal Year 2016-2020 says sales of commercial sUAS systems will grow from about 600,000 this year to around 2.7 million in 2020. A sUAS includes the unmanned aircraft and its control system.The top five markets for sUAS projected by the FAA include industrial…

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