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CALENDAR OF EVENTS as part of the U.S. Department of
Transportation’s Unmanned Aircraft
Systems Integration Pilot Program.
FedEx, along with Wing Aviation,
made the Walgreens delivery to a home
DECEMBER JANUARY in Christiansburg, Virginia.
Wing is the first company to get
DECEMBER 3 JANUARY 16
ACCOUNTING & FINANCE NATMI’S WORKERS authorization from the Federal Aviation
COUNCIL 4TH QUARTER MEETING COMPENSATION, INJURY Administration to conduct these home
The Victory Building REDUCTION AND COST CONTROL deliveries.
Little Rock, Ark. The Victory Building
Little Rock, Ark.
DECEMBER 5 DNA TESTING COULD SOLVE OLD
ATA BOARD OF DIRECTORS JANUARY 23 TRANSPORTATION MYSTERY
CHRISTMAS PARTY ATA BOARD OF DIRECTORS An 82-year old transportation
Little Rock, Ark. MEETING
The Victory Building mystery may soon be solved. Bones
DECEMBER 11 - 12 Little Rock, Ark. discovered on a remote Pacific island
NATMI’S SAFETY & DOT
COMPLIANCE SERIES are thought to have been Amelia
The Victory Building Earhart, legendary American aviator
Little Rock, Ark. who famously disappeared during a
flight in 1937.
In 1940, the bones were found
SAVE THE DATE FOR THESE 2020 EVENTS but went missing until last year. They
were found again in a museum on the
MAY 6–8, 2020 Pacific island of Tarawa. Because the
ATA ANNUAL BUSINESS CONFERENCE & bones match the measurements of
VENDOR SHOWCASE Earhart, samples have been sent off for
DNA testing.
JUNE 11–13, 2020 If there’s a match, the world
ARKANSAS TRUCKING CHAMPIONSHIP will finally have answers about what
happened to Earhart. Long thought to
have died in a crash after she radioed
that she was low on fuel and had
For calendar information, visit arkansastrucking.com difficulty finding her destination,

Howland Island.
Earhart was a record-breaking
NEWS IN BRIEF, a drone delivery to a customer’s home. aviation expert and the first woman to
Continued from page 13 That milestone goes to FedEx. make a nonstop solo flight across the
On Oct. 18, FedEx Express com- U.S. and the first woman (second after
pleted the first commercial residential Charles Lindbergh) ever to make a solo
“It is the highest level of certi- drone delivery in the United States, flight across the Atlantic Ocean. ATR
fication, one that
no other company
has attained,” UPS
said. In addition,
these drones will
be allowed to fly at
night and weigh more
than 55 pounds with
cargo.
UPS will begin
soon begin delivering
to CVS customers,
but they aren’t the
first carrier to make

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