In an open-air space like this, though, there is only so much his men can do.
Other officials said the drone had spent about 20 minutes in Israeli air space.
International flights are subject to severe disruption, and US air space is still closed to civilian flights.
Islamabad says the plane was shot down after it violated Pakistani air space.
Once Polish air space was entered, the Polish aviation authority would secretly shepherd the flight, leaving no public documentation.
Mr Little insisted that the drone had never been into Iranian air space.
Saudi Arabia also warned Iran Friday that it will no longer tolerate Iranian war planes intruding into Saudi air space.
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He was scheduled to give the address Tuesday night at the USS Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum in New York.
Austria is officially neutral, though it has allowed the U.S. military to use its air space in the anti-terror campaign.
Both the air cargo and drone operations depend primarily on access to Pakistani air space, which Islamabad has kept open.
The U.S. government has warned the group that it will seize any ship that violates Cuban air space or territorial waters.
In 1998, Brazil's Congress approved a law allowing the air force to shoot down planes that enter Brazilian air space illegally.
However, most of the concrete problems between the two countries, such as disagreements over sea-bed exploration rights and air space, remain unresolved.
Israel closed its air space to foreign planes, closed land crossings and evacuated staff from diplomatic missions and Jewish institutions around the world.
The defence department said the drone was not damaged in the incident, which it said took place in international air space on 1 November.
But the government is still discussing how to enforce it: the trouble is that Brazil still lacks the means to monitor its Amazonian air space.
Algeria has been allowing French aircraft to use its air space.
He found out via the FAA, who publish Special Use alerts for these sorts of tests, warning others to stay out of the air space in question.
"We must move away from this blanket closure and find ways to flexibly open air space, step by step, " IATA head Giovanni Bisignani told a news briefing in Paris.
The mezzanine and food court will be created in the air space above the current station car park, while that car park will be replaced with a multi-storey parking facility.
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Transport Minister Nagib Mikati said Mr Nicolian lost his way and that Israeli fighter jets started following him while he was still in Lebanese air space, nine kilometres from the border.
The news release said they chose to carry out the operation in Algeria because the country's president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, had allowed French military forces to cross Algerian air space in attacking Mali.
The FAA has been working to setup new rules and to safely integrate the use of unmanned aircraft into the national air space, and last year opened an "unmanned aircraft systems integration" office.
After Algeria permitted France to use its air space to take on insurgents, militants angry at the move stormed a gas field in eastern Algeria and took hostages in what is now an ongoing hostage crisis.
Among them was Air Memphis, which did not have a permit - after Egyptian authorities failed to respond to "adverse ramp inspection findings" - to fly in UK air space from April 1999 to May 2002.
When Georgia then banned Russian military flights in its air space, Russia's top military commander promptly accused Georgia of allowing hundreds of Chechen fighters to mass on its border, a dangerous accusation that Georgia has always denied.
Aviation experts contend that even if intruders were able to access a control tower and disrupt operations, the nation's air traffic control system is designed with multiple back-ups so that other facilities could pick up control of the affected air space.
Sitting in an office adorned with model spaceships, he argues that the proposed Texas spaceport would neither depend on federal money nor require the use of federal air space, two factors he believes will entice aerospace companies that want to minimise bureaucracy.
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