A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit regarding the small UAS registration program left a lot of people wondering about one thing: Where’s that $5 I spent ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the airline industry and aviation safety. Although the FAA's safety guidelines call for flying drones below 400 feet ...

For months, the drone industry has been waiting to see what the FAA's registration requirements for unmanned aircraft (UAS, or what we typically call "drones") would be, as well as how much they'd ...

Economist Milton Friedman was onto something when he said that “[o]ne of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”[1] Because of its severe ...

After numerous incidents of drones flying near jets and airports, the US government has made it mandatory to register the aircraft to make it easier to identify owners and educate amateur aviators.

Hey, FAA, where's my $5? I'm a law-abiding citizen. So when the FAA decided in 2015 that all drone pilots flying drones weighing less than 55 pounds (but more than 9 ounces) had to register them, I ...