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Search and Rescue Organization Challenges FAA on UAVs

The FAA ordered Texas EquuSearch to stop using the Spectra SkyCamo. (Photo: RP Flight Systems)

April 23, 2014

A nonprofit search-and-rescue organization has asked a federal court to review an FAA order that it stop using a model aircraft to assist in its search efforts. Texas EquuSearch Mounted Search & Recovery, based in Dickinson, Texas, filed a petition for review of the order in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on April 21. The suit is the second legal challenge this year of the FAA’s regulation of small unmanned aircraft systems.

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