FAACompliance

49 USC §44809 (Recreational Drone Operations)

Federal statute governing recreational drone operations.

Agency

FAA

Update cadence

Versioned in-app; refreshed when the statute is amended

What we ingest

Statutory text + interpretation history.

Where this feed reaches

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Continental United States
Alaska
Hawaii
Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands
American Samoa

How AeroCopilot uses it

Recreational vs commercial drone classification in the drone mode.

Powers these features

The product surfaces below depend on this feed.

Drone modeChatFAR

Upstream source: https://www.faa.gov/uas/recreational_flyers

Cite this

Permalink

AeroCopilot — 49 USC §44809 (Recreational Drone Operations). Data: FAA (https://www.faa.gov/uas/recreational_flyers). https://www.aerocopilot.ai/data-sources/49-usc-44809.

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