US Federal Aviation: All drones have registered since 12/21/2015: 5.6 billion or a fine of 3 years in prison

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Federal Aviation Administration USA (referred to as FAA) has announced a new law forced the owner of the drones take off into the sky wish to register, in effect starting December 21 year present. Starting December 21, you will start to register their drones in the official registration site of the FAA.

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According to a press release of the new law was enacted, the FAA determined the object to be applied include: "to the owners of all kinds of small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAS) have greater weight 250g (0.55lbs) and less than 25kg (55lbs) including volume of camera attached "

Accordingly, you only need to register once for a period of 03 years thereafter. Registration costs will normally $ 5 (~ 112,000 copper) once, but to encourage compliance with this new law, the FAA said it would free registration within the first 30 days (starting from 21-12-2015 till 20-01-2016)

According to the FAA, you go early warning register their device and keep a copy of the registration certified that his side every time you want to take off his drones or they would be paid a large fine, but facing criminal allegations: "The device is not registered to fly can lead to the fines, according to regulations and the criminal. The FAA may impose up to $ 27,500 civil (~ 619 million ). Impose criminal in the amount of up to $ 250,000 (~ 5.6 billion) and / or imprisonment up to three years. "

Currently, the registration applies only to the drone of their owners for the purpose of "hobby or for entertainment", not including commercial purposes, such as turning shooting weddings or other types of architecture ... FAA says that they "are developing innovations and will allow for online registration starting from spring 2016."



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