Most recently, it flew an unmanned Cessna 208B Grand Caravan with a pilot in a ground-based control center. This comes a few years after the company flew a Cessna Skyhawk 172 in a similar manner ...

The Cessna 208 B Grand Caravan (D-FDLR), operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Flight Experiments in Oberpfaffenhofen, serves as a carrier system for ...

The Cessna 208 Caravan went on to take its first flight in December 1982, and since then, more than 3,000 have been delivered to customers worldwide, clocking up a total of over 24 million flight ...