DEA's ISTAR partner has been awarded its third consecutive contract for MoD ISTAR training. DEA will provide the aircraft, cameras, down links and flight crews for the fourth consecutive exercise to be awarded to the 3SDL/DEA team.

Two DA42 MPPs will be allocated to the project to provide high availability which will be run on the Salisbury Plain training area during March/April 2012.

DEA has reached agreement with Gamston Aviation Ltd, owners of Gamston Airport (EGNE), to base all its operations at the airport. DEA is taking a 2,500 sq ft office building together with a co-located 8,000sq ft heated hangar.

Several of DEA's staff are relocating to the area as part of the agreement.

AirForces Monthly featured an article on one of  DEA's DA42MPPs and the contract with 3SDL in support of Exercise Joint Warrior. A copy of the article has been uploaded.

DEA is pleased to announce it has purchased its second DA42MPP Twin Star from Diamond Airborne Sensing. OE-FVA was ferried back by DEA co-founder Chris Dawes under his company callsign of WKT03, in a non stop 5:30  flght  from Wiener Neustadt to Gamston.

DEA is pleased to announce it has received a second contract from its strategic partner 3SDL to support a second series of ISTAR and CAS activities in support of Exercise Pashtun Thunder.

The second contract follows on in less than 2 months from the first award of contract.