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Court of Appeals Rules That FAA Overstepped Authority When Requiring Hobby Operators to Register UAV

Paul Goeringer

Jun 13, 2017
3 min

Court of Appeals Rules That FAA Overstepped Authority When Requiring Hobby Operators to Register UAV

This post is not legal advice. See here for the site’s reposting policy. I like to talk, talk, and write about drones/UAVs and today is no exception. Recently, the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled that the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) registration requirements for all unmanned aircraft including hobby aircraft violated federal law. Congress previously exempted hobby aircraft from any regulations that FAA might develop in the 2012 FAA Modernization and Reform Act. Th

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