Federal rules requiring owners to register recreational drones with the government are illegal, and only Congress can fix them, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued rules in October 2015 requiring registration of drones — or “unmanned aerial vehicles” (UAVs) in governmentese — weighing more than a half-pound. The rules took effect in January 2016.
The half-pound threshold is light enough to cover many of the small remote-controlled drones you can buy at the department store, and John Taylor of Washington, D.C., sued in February 2016, arguing that another provision of federal law bars the government from regulating model aircraft …
NBC News | May 23, 2017
