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Article: Aircraft maker moves to Charleston: ; Company creates unmanned drones mostly for military applications
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- August 26, 2009
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A company that makes small, unmanned aircraft is moving from
Indiana to the Charleston Area Alliance's business incubator at 1116
Smith St.
Matt Ballard, the Alliance's president and chief executive
officer, introduced Jeff Imel, founder of Air Robotics, on Tuesday
during a meeting of the Alliance's Board of Directors.
Imel said Charleston was part of his sales territory in the
1990s. "I always said that if I could live anywhere on the planet,
it would be West Virginia. And my time came. I do love this state. I
feel like I'm at home."
Air Robotics currently has five employees in Muncie, Ind., and
will maintain a sales office there. But Imel expects the firm to
have 20 employees in ...