(Bloomberg) -- U.S. aviation regulators have granted the first approval for commercial drone flights at night in the latest example of the expanding uses of unmanned aircraft.
Industrial Skyworks USA, a Maumee, Ohio-based company that uses drones for industrial inspections, had been in talks with the Federal Aviation Administration for more than a year in an attempt to convince the aviation agency that it could operate safely after dark.
“It’s been quite a struggle,” Michael Cohen, Industrial Skyworks’ president, said in an interview. “It’s the FAA trending in the right direction.”
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