As of December 21, 2015, it appears that the days of AMA only R\/C flying are over.<\/p>\n
The FAA has decreed that all unmanned aircraft, ranging from half a pound and up to\/including 55 pounds must be registered (at a 2015 cost of $5) in order to use US airspace. Presently this is a single\u00a0registration for any number of planes\/helicopters\/multicopters. \u00a0But the other requirement is that this registration must re-occur every 3 years.<\/p>\n
Registration starts on December 21, 2015. In order to avoid fines (up to $27,500 USD) all R\/C aviators must register before February 19, 2016. Please note that FAA has made clear that any information provided to them as part of registration will be made available\/searchable to the public.<\/p>\n
For details directly from the FAA, please visit their UAS site:\u00a0https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/uas\/registration\/<\/a><\/p>\n Or if you want to let the AMA know your feelings on the topic, contact them here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.modelaircraft.org\/aboutama\/Organization\/hqstaff.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As of December 21, 2015, it appears that the days of AMA only R\/C flying are over. The FAA has decreed that all unmanned aircraft, ranging from half a pound and up to\/including 55 pounds must be registered (at a 2015 cost of $5) in order to use US airspace. Presently this is a single\u00a0registration… Continue reading Aircraft registration is coming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/192.168.2.160\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/192.168.2.160\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/192.168.2.160\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/192.168.2.160\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/192.168.2.160\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/192.168.2.160\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/192.168.2.160\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/192.168.2.160\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/192.168.2.160\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/192.168.2.160\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}