Tactical Aerospace Group announced the initiation of it's global UAV dealer network this week at the AUVSI show in Orlando, FL.

The company tells ANN the new dealers will be full service operations... and are required to maintain demonstration aircraft, factory certified service and training, and a full spare parts inventory sufficient to support their customer base.

TAG contracts manager, Marnie Taylor, said "it was the culmination of almost two years effort to setup a network structure of this magnitude and encompass all the logistics  required to fully support the dealers".

TAG currently has over 180 applications from over 70 countries to become factory dealers for their VTOL UAV systems.

Over the next several months TAG will be announcing the first awards of dealership status in various countries. The initial dealerships will likely be in the UK, Spain, Turkey, UAE, Australia, Argentina, Israel, Mexico and Brazil.

"A key element to supporting the TAG dealer network is a totally automated computer data system to manage maintenance, inventory, parts tracing, certifications, manufacturing processes and notices for the entire global enterprise," said Taylor.

Dealers will enter in their data and the aircraft flight records, and with this information in the system they will be automatically supplied with inventory just as they need it as well as receive automatic notices for expiring TBOs and maintenance operations. The system will maintain a compressive traceable record of all activities and equipment. End-users will also have the option to lease terminals on this network to provide them with most of the same services and information.

TAG believes this is an important step towards the distribution and support of commercial UAV operations. Taylor said "we believe we are the first company outside general aviation to facilitate the framework and support for wide scale distribution and sales in the UAV industry".

In addition to TAG aircraft, several other UAV systems and payload vendors have expressed interest in having their products marketed and supported through the same network and sales channels.

FMI: www.tacticalaerospacegroup.com