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Normalizing Unmanned Aircraft Systems Beyond Visual Line of Sight Operations
The Transportation Security Administration published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on August 7, 2025. Comments closed on October 6, 2025.
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What the agency says
This action proposes performance-based regulations to enable the design and operation of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) at low altitudes beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) and for third-party services, including UAS Traffic Management (UTM), that support these operations. The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 directs the development of this proposed rule. This proposed rule is necessary to support the integration of UAS into the national airspace system (NAS). This proposed rule is intended to provide a predictable and clear pathway for safe, routine, and scalable UAS operations that include package delivery, agriculture, aerial surveying, civic interest, operations training, demonstration, recreation, and flight testing. TSA proposes to make complementary changes to its regulations to ensure it can continue to impose security measures on these operations under its current regulatory structure for civil aviation.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-14992
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM)
- Agency
- Transportation Department; Federal Aviation Administration; Homeland Security Department; Transportation Security Administration
- Published
- August 7, 2025
- Comments due
- October 6, 2025
- Dates
- Send comments on or before October 6, 2025.
- Docket
- Docket No. FAA-2025-1908; Notice No. 25-07
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 1652-AA80; 2120-AL82
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 14 CFR 36; 14 CFR 43; 14 CFR 45; 14 CFR 48; 14 CFR 89; 14 CFR 91; 14 CFR 107; 14 CFR 108; 14 CFR 119; 14 CFR 133; 14 CFR 135; 14 CFR 137; 14 CFR 146; 49 CFR 1540; 49 CFR 1544
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Agriculture; Air carriers; Air traffic control; Aircraft; Airmen; Airports; Arms and munitions; Aviation safety; Charter flights; Computer technology; Explosives; Exports; Freight forwarders; Incorporation by reference; Law enforcement officers; Noise control; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Security measures; Signs and symbols
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 180
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