August 28, 2006: ARCHER-equipped Airplane Brought in for North Dakota Search

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On this date in 2006, an ARCHER-equipped Gipsland Airvan joined elements of the Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota Civil Air Patrol in the search for a missing pilot.

An excerpt from the Sioux City Journal:

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Officials brought in an airplane with a special imaging system on Sunday to help search for a small plane that went missing in stormy weather on Thursday.  The Gippsland GA-8 Airvan, an Australian-made aircraft based in Minneapolis, is one of 15 aircraft stationed across the nation equipped with the ARCHER system, said Rick Robinson, a spokesman for the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services. ARCHER stands for Airborne Real-Time Cueing Hyper-spectral Enhanced Reconnaissance system. . . The search on Sunday, which was called off around 8 p.m., included two aircraft from North Dakota, five from South Dakota and seven from Minnesota. With two ground crews, there were a total of 70 Civil Air Patrol personnel involved in the search.

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