Report: The FAA's Drone Registry Will Be Public—Including Names and Addresses

Gizmodo ^ | 12-18-15 | Alissa Walker

[bigbob]

On Monday, the FAA will launch its online registry for drone operators with the aim of collecting personal information from the owners of these unmanned aircraft. But according to a report from Forbes, all those names and addresses will eventually be publicly available. Which seems... kinda scary?

Over at Forbes, John Goglia says he’s been poking the FAA for answers ever since the FAQ about registration went up. Of particular concern are two contradictory statements from the FAA and DOT. The FAA says only their agency and a contractor will have access to the personal information collected. The DOT says that all information regarding registered aircraft must be made publicly available. So Goglia emailed the FAA until he got this answer:

“Until the drone registry system is modified, the FAA will not release names and address. When the drone registry system is modified to permit public searches of registration numbers, names and addresses will be revealed through those searches.”

So basically, once the government gets its act together (insert government getting its act together joke), you could find a drone’s owner and where she lives, just by looking up her registration number.

[bigbob]

Hey, it's just another federal government database, what could go wrong?

[Paladin2]

As long as my Drone Blind doesn’t have to be registered, I’ll be fine.

[wrench]

Aircraft registry database is public info. They will treat drones the same way

[bunkerhill7]

My cat is registered owner of my drone coz she likes to jump on it.

[steve86]

OK, but the drone registration number does not have to be visible on the exterior of the model -- in my case it will be on a piece of tape tucked into the battery compartment. So it would be easier to figure out who I am just by following me home this is not an invitation.

[sten]

will it include the name and address of every federal employee flying a drone?

[Frederick_Barbarossa]

Don’t get your panties all in a bunch.

All airfoils with an “N” number are public. Always have been.

You can find out who owns what by going to one place and typing in the N number of the aircraft.(C for Canada) http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Inquiry.aspx

BTW, if its gobmint, you will find that out too.

If it flies, you need to know who owns it. The airspace over your head is YOURS, not some knucklehead who thinks looking up your daughter’s skirt is “keewel”.

PS: You need insurance and a certificate to fly MODEL planes in the local park.

Got no problem with this.

[discostu]

They might as well make it public, the way the government keeps things private it just saves everybody a lot of trouble if they skip ahead.

[US_MilitaryRules]

I hope the drones have to put 12 inch registration numbers on them! lol

[DiogenesLamp]

Report: The FAA's Drone Registry Will Be Public—Including Names and Addresses

Sounds like the are deliberately intending to scare the public away from drones. From the FAA's standpoint, what's not to like if people quit flying those things they regard as a nuisance?

[Amendment10]

From a related thead . . .

While there are problems with the use of drones that need to be addressed imo, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for drones. So this is another subtle power grab by the corrupt feds that the founders had warned us about.

• ”I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” - James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)

• ”I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That "all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people." [X Amendment] To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.” --Thomas Jefferson: National Bank Opinion, 1791.

Also note that the Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, to clarifiy that all federal / regulatory powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in non-elected federal bureaucrats like those running the constitutionally undefined EPA and FAA. So Congress has a constitutional ”monopoly” on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not imo.

But by delegating federal legislative powers to non-elected bureaucrats, powers that Congress does not even have in this case, Congress is wrongly protecting federal legislative powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of Sections 1-3 mentioned above.

Also, consider that by having unconstitutional federal agencies like the FAA exercise legislative branch powers to do Congresss dirty work for it, corrupt lawmakers are protecting their voting records which helps them get reelected.

[prisoner6]

You need insurance and a certificate to fly MODEL planes in the local park

Does that include Guillow balsa planes and gliders? Frisbees? How about a kite over 250 grams?

A balloon model of the Graf Zeppelin pulled along on a string?

[BBB333]

As an owner of an aircraft (my N number is none of your business) and a lifelong RC enthusiast it’s despicable to have to register a drone smaller than many of the RC planes I’ve destroyed over the years.

I fly my RC plane when I feel the urge - it’s a 4 channel electric plane that fits into a small box which resides in the trunk of my truck.

No wind?

Good looking field?

Half an hour to spare?

Up goes my lil’ guy.

It’s fun, though not a fast as my PT-6A...

[steve86]

PS: You need insurance and a certificate to fly MODEL planes in the local park.

This varies city by city and even park by park. All motorized models are banned in my city's parks. But my DLG glider, which can go 80 mph, is not lol.

[steve86]

I’m actually not that concerned about it, at least once I found out the number can be hidden. If this changes at some point I will be concerned.

[VeniVidiVici]

PS: You need insurance and a certificate to fly MODEL planes in the local park.

You must live in a blue state.

They can KMA if they think I will register my models.

[zeebee]

Can someone please define what a drone is? Does it include my RC Piper Cub? How about my RC Sportster with a camera on it?

[prisoner6]

The law will apply to ALL SUAS...Small Unmanned Ariel Systems.

Good segment about it on today’s TekThing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Co59HU2gY0

[SakoL61R]

This from the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) a couple days ago. I’m a member.

http://amablog.modelaircraft.org/amagov/2015/12/17/hold-off-on-registering-model-aircraft/

I’m a hobbyist. I operate pursuant to Section 336 of Public Law 112-95 (FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012). Also in accordance with FAA Advisory Circular 91-57A issued on September 2, 2015.

The FAA and drone registration? Well, bless their hearts.

[TYVets]

This sounds like a license for a Citizens Band Radio.

It will never fly.