Like most airports in the U.S., Leesburg Airport in Leesburg, Virginia has no airport control tower. During a test last year, though, it tested a "remote tower" designed by Saab, an experimental ...

In a world first, air traffic controllers armed with a suite of high-tech video and sensor equipment have been authorized to direct flights over 100 km (61 mi) away at an airport in Örnsköldsvik, ...

[Avionics Today 06-02-2015] Saab has signed a contract with the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) to deliver a Remote Tower Centre (RTC) to Dublin Airport and the corresponding remote tower installations ...

Saab says its remote control tower system installed at two airports in Sweden has passed site acceptance testing, a key hurdle on the path to certification by the Swedish Transportation Authority ...

Saab will roll out its remote air traffic control system to Sundsvall airport in Sweden in the coming weeks, extending a service that has been in place at Örnsköldsvik airport since April 2015.

[Avionics Today 10-03-2014] The Virginia SATSLab (VSATS), defense and security company Saab and the Leesburg Executive Airport are partnering to demonstrate and evaluate Saab remote tower technologies ...

Saab is demonstrating its remote tower air traffic control (ATC) offering at the Farnborough air show, as it lines up three new potential customers for the sensor-based management system. In April ...

LEESBURG, Va. – Air traffic controllers would one day guide planes to take off and land by watching them on remote video from airports that don't have their own control towers if an experiment at an ...

The UK Royal Navy is to use Saab’s remote air traffic control tower technology to manage a remote satellite airfield in Cornwall. The Navy wants to install the remote tower at Predannack airfield and ...

Thousands of small US airports lack air-traffic control towers. And many operate just fine that way—pilots are trained to communicate with one another to signal their intent to land or take off. But ...

Passengers landing at remote Ornskoldsvik Airport in northern Sweden might catch a glimpse of the control tower — likely unaware there is nobody inside. The dozen commercial planes landing there each ...