Dallas Man Faces 8 Years for Drone Flights at Two Airports
Prosecutors say his drone crossed an active runway at Love Field one night and entered DFW's restricted airspace the next.
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FCC Moves to Stop Recognising Device Test Labs in China
By the FCC's count, 82% of device testing last year happened in one country. From December 2028, a drone's radio would need a lab elsewhere.
EASA Proposes Drone Registration and Remote ID From 100 g
Model-flying clubs objected. EASA kept the line anyway, saying security officials set it rather than its own safety assessment.
FCC Moves to Bar Anzu Raptor Drones Over DJI Licence
Comments close on 23 September on a proposal that would stop import and sale of a drone the maker already withdrew in February.
Pentagon Accepts 12,080 of 30,000 Drone Dominance Drones
Six weeks after the delivery window closed, the programme's own leaderboard shows 12,080 drones accepted, and Gauntlet I winner Skycutter with none.
Twelve States Restrict Chinese Drones for Public Agencies
Twelve states, not the six usually counted, restrict public agencies buying Chinese-made drones; Connecticut's municipal ban starts 1 October.
FCC Bars New Drones With DJI Parts From 13 October
From 13 October the FCC will refuse authorisation to any new device containing a DJI or Autel logic-bearing component, wherever the rest of it is built.
FAA Clears 15 DJI Drones the FCC Proposes to Ban
Fifteen DJI aircraft sit on the FAA's Section 44807 approved list. Every one meets the FCC's proposed definition of a military-grade drone.
FCC Drone Ban Comment Record: 3,770 Opposed, 16 For
The FCC drone ban proposal drew 3,829 comments before the record closed on 2 September. Sixteen of them supported it.
US Drone Tariffs of Up to 100% Take Effect September 3
A Section 232 proclamation puts 100% duties on drones over 25kg and on thermal imagers, and 25% on everything lighter, starting September 3.