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Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act Paves the Way for Federal Regulation of Delivery Drones

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On Oct. 5, 2018, President Trump signed into law the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-254), which reauthorizes funding of the FAA through Sept. 30, 2023. This is the first long-term FAA reauthorization since...more

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Cleared for Landing: Aviation Newsletter

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Cleared for Landing highlights significant developments and issues relating to aviation law and asset finance globally and is published jointly by our Aviation Industry and Banking & Asset Finance practice groups. This...more

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Drones: FAA Issues Long-Awaited Final Rule for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems

On Tuesday, June 21, the Federal Aviation Administration issued Part 107, the Final Rule for Operation and Certification of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The Rule comes sixteen months after the FAA issued its Notice...more

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Skies Open for Business: FAA Makes Way for Commercial Drones

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The new rules will greatly expand and encourage commercial drone use but come with some limitations. After much anticipation, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) revealed sweeping new rules on June 21 to facilitate...more

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Aviation & Aerospace: The Launch of Commercial Drones

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The only thing outpacing the Federal Aviation Administration’s rapid development of guidelines and regulations governing unmanned aircraft systems (also known as drones) is the list of industries seeking to use those systems...more

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Implications of the NTSB’s Decision That Drones are Aircraft

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The NTSB issued a decision on November 17, holding that drones are aircraft and subject to the code of federal regulations that govern aircraft. In Michael P. Huerta, Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration v. Raphael...more

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Huerta v. Pirker: NTSB Rules that UAS Are “Aircraft” and Subject to FAA Prohibition on Careless and Reckless Operations

On November 18, 2014, in a unanimous decision, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded that unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are: “aircraft” within the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) statutory and...more

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Huerta v. Pirker—NTSB Says No More “Gray Area” for Drone Operations

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Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have operated within an uncertain legal framework while players across a rapidly growing range of commercial industries — from energy to rail transport to forestry to all types of...more

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