Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Parties Await FAA's Move After Court Rejects Drone Registry
More than 750,000 small drone owners registered after the FAA in rushed circumstances created an on-line system in December 2015.
Days after the FAA launched the national drone registry, John Taylor challenged the agency in federal court. (Photo: Bill Carey)
Days after the FAA launched the national drone registry, John Taylor challenged the agency in federal court. (Photo: Bill Carey)

Interested parties awaited the next move by the Federal Aviation Administration following a federal appellate court ruling that invalidates the online drone registry the agency rushed to create in December 2015. The ruling, viewed as a major setback for the FAA, leaves in limbo a database containing the names of more than three quarters of a million drone hobbyists.