Drones

The Drone That Time Forgot: Small Town's UAV Gathers Dust

Jillian Rayfield | February 15, 2012, 6:02AM

Thanks to new FAA regulations, domestic drones may soon proliferate in national airspace. But for one town, the new rules will come too late to save its drone from becoming obsolete.

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Topics: Drones, FAA, North Carolina, UAVs

FAA

The Drone Next Door: New FAA Rules Will Increase UAVs In National Airspace

Jillian Rayfield | February 9, 2012, 6:15AM

A new set of laws will require the FAA to ease up on the rules governing domestic drone use -- and to find a way to integrate them into national airspace alongside regular aircraft.

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Topics: Drones, FAA, UAVs

DOJ

DOJ Report: DEA Needs To Be More Covert About Their Undercover Airplanes

Ryan J. Reilly | December 14, 2011, 12:55PM

The Drug Enforcement Administration needs to keep their undercover aerial operations targeting narcotics trafficking along the Mexican border and in foreign countries a bit more hush-hush, according to a new report from the Justice Department's inspector general.

As of March, DOJ investigators searching the FAA aircraft registration database were able to find records of 25 domestically-based DEA aircraft that "should have been registered covertly to fictitious or cover organizations but that were not." As of Sept. 7, 13 DEA aircraft that should have been registered covertly still weren't (TPM found five planes registered still registered to the DEA in a search of the FAA's database on Wednesday).

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Topics: DEA, DOJ, DOJ Office Of The Inspector General, Drug Cartels, Drug Enforcement Administration, Drugs, FAA, Justice Department, War On Drugs