Registration for Drones

300,000 Drones Registered in 30 Days 

     The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) has told use that over 300,000 drones were registered within the first 30 days. The registration started on December 21, 2015 and covered remote controlled flying toys and cameras. Any unmanned aircraft (drones) that weighed between 250g - 25kg had to be registered and the pilots had to be 13 and up.

     Registering your drone coasts $5 unless you registered it before January 21, 2016. Another exception to this $5 payment was if you owned a drone before December 21, then you have until February 19, 2016 to register it. Once you register your drone, you have to mark it with your registration number and every three years you must register your drone again.

    

     Registering your drone is for a good reason. It allows the government to track your drone so that they know if you did anything illegal with it and also so that they know, if something happens, that you didn't do it. For instance, in December a drone almost hit a skier, so if you registered your drone, the police would know that that drone wasn't yours.

 

     Another part of registering your drone is giving the FAA information about the owner of the drone. You need to give them your name, address, and email address. This, the FAA says, will help them even further to track drones back to there owners.

 

     Over 1 million drones were expected to be sold in December, which means that only 1/3 of them have been registered.