Landcare Aviation

Landcare Aviation, Inc. (LAI), based in Rome, NY, provides airborne operation support with a fleet of single- and multi-engine remote sensing aircraft. Our Cessna 172s and Piper Aztecs, all equipped with a variety of camera ports, are routinely deployed around the country to collect aerial imagery and operate specialized sensor equipment for several customers. Landcare excels at providing the complex logistical support required by many remote-sensing applications. We efficiently manage deployments to meet the geographical and temporal demands of our customer's collection needs. Landcare is proficient at wide-area, long-linear, and high-volume point-target collections. Additionally, our company has experience operating within every type of airspace and over every kind of terrain. Developing a new airborne sensor? Test it in one of our flexible, low-cost airborne platforms. We have a significant amount of experience assisting with sensor development and testing. Landcare precisely follows customer-specified mission profiles which often include strict timing or ground coordination requirements. Landcare Aviation currently operates twenty Cessna 172's, all equipped with long range fuel tanks to maximize time on site, and four twin engine Piper Aztecs. LAI has over 30 employees, including experienced Airframe and Powerplant technicians with Inspection Authorization privileges (A&P/IA). LAI's areas of expertise include: performing modifications to aircraft to suit our customers' specific and unique system requirements; making repairs when necessary in the most expeditious manner possible; deploying and managing those aircraft and their crews as efficiently as possible to meet or exceed our customers' requirements and maximize the use of a limited flight window.