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Policy & Regulation
Can You Legally Shoot Down a Drone Over Your Property? What the Case Law Actually Says
The Kentucky 'drone slayer' case never settled the law, and two 2024 Florida prosecutions show real consequences. Here's what the case law and stalled state bills actually say about shooting down a drone.
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Policy & Regulation
DHS and DOJ Issue Interim Final Rule Letting State and Local Police Detect, Track and Take Down Drones
A new joint DHS/DOJ interim final rule, effective July 1, 2026, hands state, local, Tribal and territorial police and correctional agencies detection and — for the first time — drone mitigation authority, with public comment open through September 4.
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Policy & Regulation
Florida's Vertiport Funding Law Takes Effect, Fueling State's Advanced Air Mobility Push
Florida's HB 1093 took effect July 1, 2026, letting FDOT fund up to 100% of vertiport projects and granting eVTOL tax breaks as the state races to become a leading U.S. test bed for air taxis.
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Policy & Regulation
FAA's Critical-Infrastructure Drone-Restriction Rule Closes Its Public Comment Window
The FAA's first formal process letting critical-infrastructure operators petition for drone flight restrictions closed for public comment this week, setting up two new tiers of no-fly zones covering 16 sectors from energy to defense plants.
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Policy & Regulation
Idaho Becomes First State to Ban Drone Flights Over Prison Airspace
Idaho's House Bill 522 takes effect July 1, 2026, making it a misdemeanor to fly a drone up to 400 feet over any state correctional facility and empowering officials to detect, track, and disable offending aircraft.
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Policy & Regulation
Nearly 1 Million Comments Force FAA to Push Back Its Critical-Infrastructure Drone Rule Deadline
Swamped with nearly 900,000 public comments, the FAA has extended the deadline on its Section 2209 critical-infrastructure drone rule from July 6 to August 5, 2026.
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Policy & Regulation
The FAA Remote ID Rule for Drones, Explained
A plain-English guide to 14 CFR Part 89, the FAA's Remote ID rule: what it requires, the three compliance paths, key deadlines, and how it differs from a manned-aircraft transponder.
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Policy & Regulation
Fourth Strike in Four Days: A Drone Hits a JetBlue Jet Over JFK as U.S. Airports Still Have No Legal Way to Stop It
A drone struck JetBlue Flight 948 above the cockpit at ~3,000 feet on approach to JFK on June 29 — the fourth NYC-area drone incident in four days — exposing that civil airports and local police still have no legal authority to detect or interdict drones in real time.
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Policy & Regulation
One Line About Drones in Trump's Resilience Strategy — and What It Signals for Part 108
Commercial drones appear exactly once in the White House's June 2026 National Resilience Strategy — in Trump's intro — but the placement, not the prose, is the signal for Part 108 and supply chains.
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Policy & Regulation
FAA Breaks Ground on V-PAR, Its First Dedicated eVTOL Test Range, to Solve the Vertiport Integration Problem
The FAA broke ground June 26, 2026 on V-PAR, an ~$8.3M Oklahoma City test range purpose-built to study how eVTOL aircraft fold into the National Airspace System — wake, downwash, RF interference and vertiport procedures.
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Policy & Regulation
FAA Cracks the Door Open: How Part 107/135 Operators Can Get Authorized to Fly Inside World Cup 'No Drone Zones'
The FAA's June 22 NOTAM update confirms certain drone operations may be permitted inside World Cup security airspace with DHS authorization — giving Part 107 and 135 operators a concrete approval path via [email protected] amid $100,000 fines and the new DETER enforcement push.
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Policy & Regulation
FAA Misses Trump’s February Deadline on BVLOS Rule as Right-of-Way Fight Stalls Part 108
The FAA has blown past a White House deadline to finalize Part 108, the rule that would replace case-by-case BVLOS waivers with a routine certification pathway — stalled chiefly by a proposed inversion of crewed-aircraft right-of-way precedent that drew more than 1,600 opposing comments.
