Buying a drone for fun just got a little less complicated.
A court ruling has declared that civilians c no longer need to register their non-commercial drones with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of drone user John Taylor, who filed an initial petition challenging the drone registration rule back in 2015, just days after the FAA’s drone registry went live in December of that year.
The rule required drone hobbyists to pay a $5 fee to register their drone with the FAA’s website.
However, the judge in Taylor’s case cited the 2012 FAA Modernization and Reform Act, signed by President Obama, which states that the FAA “may not promulgate any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft.” According to the FAA, there have…
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