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FACILITY REQUIREMENTS by-case basis. These Section 333 exemptions remain valid, even with the creation of Part 107, as set forth in the individually granted exemption. Part 107 does not require a private pilot license, as it contains its own licensing regulation. The creation of Part 107 sUAS regulations are in place to protect the public from any potential dangers posed by drones and this includes operators of traditional aircraft and passengers using Eugene Airport facilities. In fact, opportunities do exist for the airport administration to embrace this new technology and increase revenue by promoting the new method of aviation through leasing policies which encourage drone production or maintenance facilities and drone sales companies on airport property. Additionally, companies such as Amazon are testing drones for use in package deliveries. While specific details about these type of delivery services have not been released, future launching/landing facilities for this type of drone delivery service will most likely be located with corresponding product warehouses, or even mobile delivery trucks. Amazon drone testing is currently underway in Canada, Denmark, and the United Kingdom, but not in the United States, and is unlikely to take place at any U.S. airfield cargo facilities, especially from airfields with commercial passenger operations. Many sUAS sales and services companies already exist around or near Eugene, Oregon. Halo Aviation has a licensed sUAS pilot and offers photography and videography services around Eugene. Many other companies in the surrounding area (Bend, Medford, Corvallis) offer similar services ranging from sales to inspection to GIS services. Even Central Oregon Community College in nearby Bend, OR offers an Unmanned Aerial Systems degree program. Promoting these types of facilities near the airport does not present any conflict with commercial airline traffic, however, commercial and recreational drone operations within close proximity of Eugene Airport is currently discouraged by FAA, particularly near arrival and departure corridors. Advances in drone technology and future FAA rules may provide a means to operate drone cargo operations on or near the airport as a new form of an air cargo facility. For the purposes of this master plan analysis, space for drone cargo operations is considered as an element of future air cargo facilities and space to accommodate these operations is accounted for in Section 3.10 of this document. AIR CARGO FACILITY The air cargo facility at EUG includes a 14,000 square foot building and a 26,000 square yard apron. Approximately 7,500 square feet of building space is leased to Lawrence Air Service. Because this space isn’t currently dedicated as air cargo freight loading/unloading or storage space, it was removed from consideration in the analysis of cargo specific space requirements. Roughly 6,500 square feet of dedicated cargo space exists in the cargo building. As shown in Table 3-31, this space is more than adequate through the planning period for serving cargo operations. EUGENE AIRPORT MASTER PLAN 3-60