Drones: Stand by for registration

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Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland Jan 12, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>Drones: Stand by for registration</h1>
                <h2><p>The Federal Aviation Administration plans to require registration of all drones of any size, an announcement that Member of Congress Rick Larsen, D-Lake Stevens, quickly praised as an important safety step that enjoys bipartisan support in the U.S. House of Representatives. The FAA is planning to act on a</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>The Federal Aviation Administration plans to require registration of all drones of any size, an announcement that Member of Congress Rick Larsen, D-Lake Stevens, quickly praised as an important safety step that enjoys bipartisan support in the U.S. House of Representatives. The FAA is planning to act on a very fast track, hoping to have a system in place by mid-November — in time for the Christmas shopping season. As <a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2015/u-s-plan-for-recreational-drone-registration-faces-a-fast-steep-climb/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">science writer Alan Boyle notes </a>on GeekWire, that might set a record for FAA rule-making.</p>
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The Federal Aviation Administration plans to require registration of all drones of any size, an announcement that Member of Congress Rick Larsen, D-Lake Stevens, quickly praised as an important safety step that enjoys bipartisan support in the U.S. House of Representatives. The FAA is planning to act on a very fast track, hoping to have a system in place by mid-November — in time for the Christmas shopping season. As science writer Alan Boyle notes on GeekWire, that might set a record for FAA rule-making.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi