Part 107, Remote ID, TRUST, waivers, and the rulemaking that shapes what every pilot in America is allowed to fly.
The Federal Aviation Administration will modify all of its FIFA World Cup 2026 drone NOTAMs to add an authorization pathway through the Department of Homeland Security, starting with the Texas locations. The change comes less than two weeks after the tournament’s sweeping flight restrictions took effect on June 1 and began grounding commercial drone operators…
An FAA temporary flight restriction bans drones over downtown Providence until July 21, protecting Ghana's World Cup base camp. Penalties reach $100,000.
Matternet closed a $33 million private placement and went public last week through a reverse merger with shell company Los Altos Ventures Corp., now renamed Matternet Inc. The deal makes Matternet the first pure play drone delivery company on U.S. public markets, a milestone the company has been positioning for since landing FAA type certification…
The FAA has switched on more than 100 drone-only Temporary Flight Restrictions for FIFA World Cup 2026 team hotels and training camps, and a large share of them sit in cities that are not hosting a single match. Boise, Idaho. Louisville, Kentucky. Indianapolis. Sandy, Utah. None of these places appears on the list of 11…
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on May 28 published the actual venue list, dates, and airspace dimensions for its FIFA World Cup 2026 flight restrictions, turning a months-old “No Drone Zone” messaging campaign into a concrete schedule that pilots can now check against their own calendars. Eleven U.S. stadiums get the largest treatment: a three-nautical-mile…
The Orange County Fire Authority says it can find the private drone operators buzzing the Garden Grove chemical tank emergency, and it is reading their Remote ID to do it. OCFA Capt. Brian Yau said the agency has counter-UAS gear that detects a drone in flight, pulls its registration, and traces the operator through that…
The Drone Service Providers Alliance is pressing the FAA to use its long-overdue Section 2209 rule to invalidate the patchwork of critical infrastructure airspace laws that 25 states wrote while the federal rule sat undone for nearly a decade. In a comment guide posted to the alliance’s website, DSPA President Vic Moss laid out a…
The FCC just extended DJI and Autel firmware updates to January 2029. Plus FIFA World Cup no-fly zones and Pierce Aerospace's Remote ID network for NASA.
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