Registered drone owners will need to place their machine’s ID number on the outside of their aircraft from February 23 in accordance with a new rule from the Federal Aviation Administration. Terror-related concerns mean the ID can no longer be placed inside the drone’s battery compartment.
Own a drone? Then from next week you’ll have to make sure you have its registration number showing on the outside of the machine, if it isn’t there already.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which decides such matters, posted the new rule in an official document on Tuesday.
When the drone registration program first launched in 2015, the FAA allowed the ID number to be placed inside the device’s battery compartment, as long as it was easy to open.
But following terror-related concerns voiced by the FBI and Homeland Security, the FAA is enacting a new rule that means from February 23, drone owners will need to place the ID number on the outside of their aircraft where it’ll be clearly visible.
