I live just north of Fort Sill, Oklahoma and about 80 miles SW of Clinton-Sherman Airport. The following article was in the Lawton Newspaper and has me really worried. My model plane field is just West of Apache, Oklahoma and could be affected by this information. What do you think?
Drones may soon fly from Lawton to Clinton
Groundwork is being done to establish an "air corridor" that would allow for flights of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) between Lawton-Fort Sill and the Clinton-Sherman Airport in Clinton.

If the corridor becomes a reality, it would be the only one in the United States in which UAVs would be allowed to routinely fly at higher altitudes without special permission through airspace controlled by the Federal Aviation Administration. It also would represent an important next step in Oklahoma's quest to become a key player in the rapidly expanding industry of UAVs and unmanned aerial systems.

Stephen McKeever is Oklahoma's secretary of science and technology and also the executive director of the Oklahoma State University Multispectral Laboratory (UML), the organization that worked with the Defense Department in 2006 to locate a UAV-dedicated airport in Lawton-Fort Sill. In emailed responses to questions posed by The Lawton Constitution, he described an industry poised for "exponential growth" with great potential to attract investment and jobs.

"I think Lawton citizens can expect to see new UAV-related companies establishing a presence in Oklahoma in general and in the Lawton area in particular as our facilities become more widely known and as the UAV industry grows," McKeever said.

Locating the Oklahoma Training Center for Unmanned Systems west of Lawton and adjacent to Fort Sill made perfect sense because airspace over Fort Sill isn't subject to the same FAA rules governing UAV flights in civil airspace. The UML has an agreement with the Army to use some of Fort Sill's airspace to fly UAVs virtually at any time to a height of up to 40,000 feet.

The Lawton-Fort Sill facility has seen increasing activity in the five years since it was established. Now, the FAA has been asked to issue a certificate of authorization allowing for flights of a UAV called a TigerShark in and out of Clinton-Sherman. If that's granted, McKeever said a second certificate would be applied for to allow for flights of TigerSharks between Clinton-Sherman and Lawton-Fort Sill. If both certificates are issued, a process likely to take months, he said TigerSharks would then be put to work in the air corridor testing electronic instrument landing systems.