{ "name": "Drone laws by jurisdiction", "source": "https://listdrone.com/drone-laws/", "licence": "Facts are from the official sources cited on each entry. Verify before you fly.", "generated": "2026-09-14", "jurisdictions": [ { "slug": "european-union", "name": "European Union", "iso2": null, "url": "https://listdrone.com/drone-laws/european-union/", "regulator": { "name": "European Union Aviation Safety Agency", "abbr": "EASA", "url": "https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/domains/civil-drones" }, "inherits": null, "verified_on": "2026-09-13", "rules": { "registration_threshold": { "value": 250, "display": "250 g — or any weight if the drone carries a sensor able to capture personal data (so almost every camera drone, regardless of mass, unless it is certified as a toy)\n", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": null, "source": { "url": "https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/the-agency/faqs/drones-uas", "publisher": "EASA", "citation": null, "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } }, "pilot_credential": { "value": "tiered", "display": "Free online training and a 40-question exam (75% to pass) for A1/A3; a further 30-question exam for the A2 Certificate of Competency. Both valid 5 years. The operator registers, not the aircraft — in one member state only.\n", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": null, "source": { "url": "https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/domains/drones-air-mobility/operating-drone/open-category-low-risk-civil-drones", "publisher": "EASA", "citation": null, "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } }, "max_altitude": { "value": 120, "display": "120 m from the closest point of the surface", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": null, "source": { "url": "https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/document-library/regulations/commission-implementing-regulation-eu-2019947", "publisher": "EASA", "citation": "(EU) 2019/947 Art. 4(1)", "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } }, "remote_id": { "value": "mandatory", "display": "Direct (broadcast) remote ID, required on C1, C2, C3, C5 and C6 class-marked aircraft. C0 and C4 are exempt, and there is no retrofit mandate for legacy aircraft in the open category. Network remote ID exists only inside U-space.\n", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": null, "source": { "url": "https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/domains/drones-air-mobility/operating-drone/open-category-low-risk-civil-drones", "publisher": "EASA", "citation": null, "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } }, "bvlos": { "value": "specific_category", "display": "Not available in the open category. Routed through the Specific category — SORA 2.5, the published PDRAs, or standard scenario STS-02 with a C6 aircraft.\n", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": null, "source": null }, "visitor_can_fly": { "value": "yes_with_registration", "display": "Yes. A non-resident registers with the national authority of the first EASA-area country they intend to fly in, and that single registration is then valid across all 31. Beware of fraudulent sites selling \"drone pilot licences\" — a competency certificate can only come from a recognised aviation authority and always requires an exam.\n", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": null, "source": { "url": "https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/the-agency/faqs/drones-uas", "publisher": "EASA", "citation": null, "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } }, "no_fly": { "value": null, "display": "Geographical zones are designated by each member state under Article 15 and published on national maps. EASA's own pan-EU map is preliminary, covers only Ireland and Spain, and carries an explicit notice that it is not yet to be used for planning operations — so in 2026 the answer to \"where can I fly\" is still the host state's national map.\n", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": null, "source": { "url": "https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/domains/drones-air-mobility/operating-drone/where-fly-easa-member-states-geo-zones", "publisher": "EASA", "citation": null, "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } }, "penalties": { "value": null, "display": "Set nationally, not by EU law — the regulations leave enforcement and penalties to each member state. Check the national authority for the country you are flying in.\n", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": null, "source": { "url": "https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/domains/civil-drones/naa", "publisher": "EASA", "citation": null, "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } } }, "travel": { "import_status": "permitted", "note": null, "source": null }, "events": [ { "id": "eu-2026-02-11-counter-drone-action-plan", "date": "2026-02-11", "kind": "proposed", "title": "Commission action plan proposes a \"Drone Security Package\"", "summary": "The European Commission presented an Action Plan on Drone and Counter-Drone Security announcing, among other things, a future package to \"revamp the existing rules on civilian airborne drones\", supply-chain measures and an EU Trusted Drone label. It is an action plan for discussion with member states, not legislation: as of September 2026 it has changed nothing about registration, remote ID, class marks or U-space. The direction of travel is toward tighter identification for security reasons, but nothing you must comply with has changed yet.\n", "source": { "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/document/print/en/ip_26_364/IP_26_364_EN.pdf", "publisher": "European Commission", "citation": "COM(2026) 81 final", "published": "2026-02-11T00:00:00.000Z", "retrieved": null }, "verified_on": "2026-09-13" }, { "id": "eu-2026-01-01-national-sts-expire", "date": "2026-01-01", "kind": "in_force", "title": "Declarations under national standard scenarios cease to be valid", "summary": "Article 23(4) of 2019/947 ended the transitional acceptance of operator declarations made under national standard scenarios. Specific-category operators who never migrated to STS-01/STS-02 or to an operational authorisation lost their legal basis on this date.\n", "source": { "url": "https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/document-library/easy-access-rules/easy-access-rules-unmanned-aircraft-systems", "publisher": "EASA", "citation": null, "published": "2026-06-30T00:00:00.000Z", "retrieved": null }, "verified_on": "2026-09-13" }, { "id": "eu-2025-09-29-sora-25", "date": "2025-09-29", "kind": "in_force", "title": "SORA 2.5 adopted as the accepted means of compliance", "summary": "ED Decision 2025/018/R brought the JARUS SORA 2.5 package into the AMC and guidance material for 2019/947, with a revised quantitative ground-risk table, containment treated as a distinct function, and 17 consolidated operational safety objectives. Note its legal character: this is an accepted means of compliance, not a regulation. Even so, each member state set its own SORA 2.0 acceptance window — one methodology, one regional regulator, 27 different transition calendars.\n", "source": { "url": "https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/document-library/agency-decisions/ed-decision-2025018r", "publisher": "EASA", "citation": "ED Decision 2025/018/R", "published": "2025-09-29T00:00:00.000Z", "retrieved": null }, "verified_on": "2026-09-13" }, { "id": "eu-2025-05-01-reg-2024-1110", "date": "2025-05-01", "kind": "in_force", "title": "Latest binding amendments to 2019/947 and 2019/945 become applicable", "summary": "Regulations (EU) 2024/1110 and 2024/1108 took effect, revising definitions, the authorisation of specific-category operations, remote pilot responsibilities under the standard scenarios, and which UAS must be certified. These remain the most recent binding amendments — nothing in 2025 or 2026 has changed the regulations themselves, only the soft law around them.\n", "source": { "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/1110/oj/eng", "publisher": "EUR-Lex", "citation": "(EU) 2024/1110", "published": "2024-04-10T00:00:00.000Z", "retrieved": null }, "verified_on": "2026-09-13" }, { "id": "eu-2024-01-01-transition-ends", "date": "2024-01-01", "kind": "in_force", "title": "The transitional regime expires — legacy drones lose the A2 route", "summary": "Article 22's transitional scheme ended. The widely used \"under 2 kg at 50 m from people\" route is gone and has not returned. What survived is Article 20: a non-class-marked drone placed on the market before this date may still be flown indefinitely — in A1 if under 250 g, and in A3 (150 m from built-up areas) if between 250 g and 25 kg. There is no legacy route into A2 at all, because A2 requires a C2 class mark. That, not a ban, is what owners actually lost.\n", "source": { "url": "https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/domains/drones-air-mobility/operating-drone/open-category-low-risk-civil-drones", "publisher": "EASA", "citation": null, "published": "2022-04-04T00:00:00.000Z", "retrieved": null }, "verified_on": "2026-09-13" } ] }, { "slug": "germany", "name": "Germany", "iso2": "DE", "url": "https://listdrone.com/drone-laws/germany/", "regulator": { "name": "Luftfahrt-Bundesamt / Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr", "abbr": "LBA / BMDV", "url": "https://www.dipul.de/homepage/en/" }, "inherits": "european-union", "verified_on": "2026-09-13", "rules": { "registration_threshold": { "value": 250, "display": "250 g — or any weight if the drone carries a sensor able to capture personal data (so almost every camera drone, regardless of mass, unless it is certified as a toy)\n", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": "european-union", "source": { "url": "https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/the-agency/faqs/drones-uas", "publisher": "EASA", "citation": null, "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } }, "pilot_credential": { "value": "tiered", "display": "Free online training and a 40-question exam (75% to pass) for A1/A3; a further 30-question exam for the A2 Certificate of Competency. Both valid 5 years. The operator registers, not the aircraft — in one member state only.\n", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": "european-union", "source": { "url": "https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/domains/drones-air-mobility/operating-drone/open-category-low-risk-civil-drones", "publisher": "EASA", "citation": null, "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } }, "max_altitude": { "value": 120, "display": "120 m from the closest point of the surface", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": "european-union", "source": { "url": "https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/document-library/regulations/commission-implementing-regulation-eu-2019947", "publisher": "EASA", "citation": "(EU) 2019/947 Art. 4(1)", "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } }, "remote_id": { "value": "mandatory", "display": "Direct (broadcast) remote ID, required on C1, C2, C3, C5 and C6 class-marked aircraft. C0 and C4 are exempt, and there is no retrofit mandate for legacy aircraft in the open category. Network remote ID exists only inside U-space.\n", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": "european-union", "source": { "url": "https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/domains/drones-air-mobility/operating-drone/open-category-low-risk-civil-drones", "publisher": "EASA", "citation": null, "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } }, "bvlos": { "value": "specific_category", "display": "Not available in the open category. Routed through the Specific category — SORA 2.5, the published PDRAs, or standard scenario STS-02 with a C6 aircraft.\n", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": "european-union", "source": null }, "visitor_can_fly": { "value": "yes_with_registration", "display": "Yes. A non-resident registers with the national authority of the first EASA-area country they intend to fly in, and that single registration is then valid across all 31. Beware of fraudulent sites selling \"drone pilot licences\" — a competency certificate can only come from a recognised aviation authority and always requires an exam.\n", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": "european-union", "source": { "url": "https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/the-agency/faqs/drones-uas", "publisher": "EASA", "citation": null, "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } }, "no_fly": { "value": null, "display": "§ 21h LuftVO adds German-only zones on top of the EU rules: over and within 1,500 m of the boundary of a non-airport aerodrome (specific category or operator consent); over and within 1,000 m of an airport boundary, plus within 1,000 m of the runway centreline extended 5 km on approach and departure (specific category only); and over and within 100 m of industrial plants, prisons, secure psychiatric units, military installations and central energy generation or distribution plants.\n", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": null, "source": { "url": "https://www.dipul.de/homepage/en/information/geographical-zones/legal-basis/", "publisher": "dipul (DFS / BMDV)", "citation": "§ 21h LuftVO", "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } }, "penalties": { "value": null, "display": "Set nationally, not by EU law — the regulations leave enforcement and penalties to each member state. Check the national authority for the country you are flying in.\n", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": "european-union", "source": { "url": "https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/domains/civil-drones/naa", "publisher": "EASA", "citation": null, "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } } }, "travel": { "import_status": "permitted", "note": null, "source": null }, "events": [ { "id": "de-2021-04-28-luftvo-21h", "date": "2021-04-28", "kind": "in_force", "title": "§ 21h LuftVO establishes Germany's geographical zones", "summary": "Germany implemented the EU framework's Article 15 discretion through § 21h of the Luftverkehrs-Ordnung, and the federal government launched dipul.de as the official information platform and map, operated with DFS.\n", "source": { "url": "https://www.dipul.de/homepage/en/information/geographical-zones/legal-basis/", "publisher": "dipul (DFS / BMDV)", "citation": "§ 21h LuftVO", "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" }, "verified_on": "2026-09-13" } ] }, { "slug": "united-states", "name": "United States", "iso2": "US", "url": "https://listdrone.com/drone-laws/united-states/", "regulator": { "name": "Federal Aviation Administration", "abbr": "FAA", "url": "https://www.faa.gov/uas" }, "inherits": null, "verified_on": "2026-09-13", "rules": { "registration_threshold": { "value": 250, "display": "250 g (0.55 lb) — $5, valid 3 years", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": null, "source": { "url": "https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/register_drone", "publisher": "FAA", "citation": null, "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } }, "pilot_credential": { "value": "tiered", "display": "TRUST (free online test) for recreational flight; a Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate for everything else — minimum age 16, TSA security vetting, recurrent training every 24 calendar months.\n", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": null, "source": { "url": "https://www.faa.gov/uas/recreational_flyers", "publisher": "FAA", "citation": null, "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } }, "max_altitude": { "value": 120, "display": "400 ft (120 m) AGL, or within 400 ft of a structure", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": null, "source": { "url": "https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/part_107", "publisher": "FAA", "citation": null, "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } }, "remote_id": { "value": "mandatory", "display": "Mandatory (broadcast) — 14 CFR Part 89, enforced since 16 March 2024", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": null, "source": { "url": "https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/remote_id", "publisher": "FAA", "citation": null, "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } }, "bvlos": { "value": "waiver_only", "display": "Waiver or exemption only — the Part 108 rule is not final", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": null, "source": null }, "visitor_can_fly": { "value": "yes_with_registration", "display": "Yes. A foreign visitor registers in FAADroneZone the same way ($5, 3 years); the FAA treats the certificate as a recognition of ownership rather than a US registration. Recreational visitors must also complete TRUST and carry proof. Drones under 250 g need no registration.\n", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": null, "source": { "url": "https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/register_drone", "publisher": "FAA", "citation": null, "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } }, "no_fly": { "value": null, "display": "Controlled airspace requires authorisation via LAANC (about 726 airports, 12 service suppliers) or FAA DroneZone. Temporary Flight Restrictions, stadiums, wildfires and security perimeters are hard exclusions.\n", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": null, "source": { "url": "https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/laanc", "publisher": "FAA", "citation": null, "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } }, "penalties": { "value": null, "display": "Civil penalties up to $27,500 for registration offences; criminal fines up to $250,000 and/or up to 3 years. Enforcement hardened in 2026 — the FAA now requires legal action rather than education for airspace and endangerment violations.\n", "confidence": "high", "inherited_from": null, "source": { "url": "https://www.faa.gov/faq/there-penalty-failing-register", "publisher": "FAA", "citation": null, "published": null, "retrieved": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z" } } }, "travel": { "import_status": "permitted", "note": null, "source": null }, "events": [ { "id": "us-2026-09-03-section-232-tariffs", "date": "2026-09-03", "kind": "in_force", "title": "Section 232 tariffs take effect — 25% on consumer drones", "summary": "Proclamation 11055 imposes a 100% ad valorem duty on UAS over 25 kg, thermal-imaging UAS, docking stations and listed critical components, and 25% on UAS at or below 25 kg — which covers essentially every consumer drone. Reduced caps apply to the EU, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Switzerland and the UK, conditional on certifying that substantially all critical components originate there or in the US. This is the most consumer-visible change of 2026 and it has nothing to do with aviation safety.\n", "source": { "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/19/2026-16979/adjusting-imports-of-unmanned-aircraft-systems-and-unmanned-aircraft-systems-components-into-the", "publisher": "Federal Register", "citation": "91 FR 53699", "published": "2026-08-19T00:00:00.000Z", "retrieved": null }, "verified_on": "2026-09-13" }, { "id": "us-2026-07-10-part-108-oira", "date": "2026-07-10", "kind": "pending", "title": "Part 108 BVLOS final rule sent to OIRA — still unpublished", "summary": "The FAA's beyond-visual-line-of-sight final rule entered EO 12866 review on 10 July 2026 and is still listed as Pending Review. There is no effective date and no compliance deadline. Several commercial sites report the rule as finalised; they are wrong. Until it publishes, BVLOS remains available only through a Part 107 waiver, a Part 11 exemption, or the Section 927 process.\n", "source": { "url": "https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eoAdvancedSearch?rin=2120-AL82", "publisher": "OIRA (reginfo.gov)", "citation": "RIN 2120-AL82", "published": "2026-07-10T00:00:00.000Z", "retrieved": null }, "verified_on": "2026-09-13" }, { "id": "us-2026-07-06-counter-uas", "date": "2026-07-06", "kind": "in_force", "title": "State and local police gain counter-drone authority", "summary": "A joint DHS/DOJ interim final rule, implementing the SAFER SKIES Act of 18 December 2025, extends detect-identify-track-warn authority — and at a higher certified tier, authority to disrupt, disable or destroy — to state, local, tribal and territorial law enforcement and correctional agencies. Mitigation requires in-person training at the FBI's National Counter-UAS Training Center, pre-approved equipment, and reporting within 48 hours. In practice: your drone can now lawfully be tracked, and in defined circumstances brought down, by local agencies.\n", "source": { "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/06/2026-13609/counter-uas-authority-for-state-local-tribal-and-territorial-law-enforcement-and-correctional", "publisher": "Federal Register", "citation": "91 FR 41466", "published": "2026-07-06T00:00:00.000Z", "retrieved": null }, "verified_on": "2026-09-13" }, { "id": "us-2026-05-06-section-2209", "date": "2026-05-06", "kind": "proposed", "title": "Proposed flight restrictions around critical infrastructure (new Part 74)", "summary": "An FAA notice of proposed rulemaking would create 14 CFR Part 74, letting operators of qualifying fixed-site facilities request Standard or Special UAS Flight Restrictions over their sites. Comments closed 5 August 2026 after an extension. No final rule — nine years after the statutory mandate in Section 2209 of the 2016 FAA Extension Act.\n", "source": { "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/06/2026-08943/designation-restrict-the-operation-of-unmanned-aircraft-in-close-proximity-to-a-fixed-site-facility", "publisher": "Federal Register", "citation": null, "published": "2026-05-06T00:00:00.000Z", "retrieved": null }, "verified_on": "2026-09-13" }, { "id": "us-2026-04-17-deter", "date": "2026-04-17", "kind": "in_force", "title": "DETER settlement programme for first-time violators", "summary": "The FAA's Drone Expedited and Targeted Enforcement Response gives a first-time violator 10 days to settle for a significantly reduced civil penalty. It is usable once, waives all rights to appeal or judicial review, and excludes TFR violations, weaponised drones, alcohol or drug offences and violations committed in furtherance of another crime.\n", "source": { "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/04/17/2026-07585/settlement-policy-for-small-unmanned-aircraft-system-uas-cases", "publisher": "Federal Register", "citation": "91 FR 20578", "published": "2026-04-17T00:00:00.000Z", "retrieved": null }, "verified_on": "2026-09-13" }, { "id": "us-2026-02-06-enforcement", "date": "2026-02-06", "kind": "enforcement", "title": "FAA shifts from education-first to mandatory legal enforcement", "summary": "The FAA announced it will require legal action where drone operations endanger the public, violate airspace restrictions, or are conducted in furtherance of another crime. It published 18 violations from 2023–2025 with fines from $1,771 to $36,770 — the largest for interfering with wildfire emergency response — and 8 certificate suspensions or revocations in 2025.\n", "source": { "url": "https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-steps-drone-enforcement-2025", "publisher": "FAA", "citation": null, "published": "2026-02-06T00:00:00.000Z", "retrieved": null }, "verified_on": "2026-09-13" }, { "id": "us-2025-12-22-fcc-covered-list", "date": "2025-12-22", "kind": "in_force", "title": "FCC adds all foreign-produced drones and critical components to the Covered List", "summary": "In a first-of-its-kind blanket action under the Secure Networks Act and Section 1709 of the FY2025 NDAA, the FCC added all foreign-produced UAS and UAS critical components — flight controllers, batteries, motors, communications and navigation systems — to the Covered List. The effect is prospective: covered equipment cannot receive new FCC equipment authorisations, so it cannot lawfully be imported or marketed. It does not ground, confiscate or prohibit drones already owned and authorised. DJI's petition for reconsideration and Autel's application for review are pending with no merits decision.\n", "source": { "url": "https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-25-1086A1.pdf", "publisher": "Federal Communications Commission", "citation": "DA 25-1086", "published": "2025-12-22T00:00:00.000Z", "retrieved": null }, "verified_on": "2026-09-13" }, { "id": "us-2025-08-07-part-108-nprm", "date": "2025-08-07", "kind": "superseded", "title": "Part 108 BVLOS proposed rule published", "summary": "A joint FAA/TSA notice of proposed rulemaking to normalise beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations, with a permit-and-certificate structure, a 1,320 lb weight ceiling, mandatory detect-and-avoid, and a new Part 146 for automated data service providers. Comments closed 6 October 2025 and reopened briefly in early 2026.\n", "source": { "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/07/2025-14992/normalizing-unmanned-aircraft-systems-beyond-visual-line-of-sight-operations", "publisher": "Federal Register", "citation": "90 FR 38212", "published": "2025-08-07T00:00:00.000Z", "retrieved": null }, "verified_on": "2026-09-13" }, { "id": "us-2024-03-16-remote-id-enforced", "date": "2024-03-16", "kind": "in_force", "title": "Remote ID becomes fully enforceable", "summary": "The FAA's enforcement discretion, granted because of broadcast-module supply shortages, expired. Every registered drone must now broadcast Remote ID — as a standard Remote ID aircraft, with a broadcast module, or by flying inside an FAA-Recognized Identification Area.\n", "source": { "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/09/15/2023-20074/enforcement-policy-regarding-operator-compliance-deadline-for-remote-identification-of-unmanned", "publisher": "Federal Register", "citation": null, "published": "2023-09-15T00:00:00.000Z", "retrieved": null }, "verified_on": "2026-09-13" }, { "id": "us-2021-04-21-remote-id", "date": "2021-04-21", "kind": "in_force", "title": "Remote ID and Operations Over People rules take effect", "summary": "14 CFR Part 89 (Remote Identification) and the Operations Over People rule became effective. The latter created the four over-people categories and permitted night operations without a waiver, provided the pilot has completed the updated training and the aircraft carries anti-collision lighting visible for 3 statute miles.\n", "source": { "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/15/2020-28948/remote-identification-of-unmanned-aircraft", "publisher": "Federal Register", "citation": "86 FR 4390", "published": "2021-01-15T00:00:00.000Z", "retrieved": null }, "verified_on": "2026-09-13" } ] } ] }