Imaging recource: FAA hands out record $1.9M fine to Chicago-based SkyPan for illegal drone use

The FAA isn’t playing games when it comes to the reckless and illegal flight of drones. Yesterday, the FAA announced it was hitting SkyPan, a Chicago-based real estate aerial video company, with a whopping $1.9-million fine for illegally flying its drones in both Chicago and New York. According to the FAA, ‘SkyPan conducted 65 unauthorized operations in some of our most congested airspace and heavily populated cities, violating airspace regulations and various operating rules.’ As a result the FAA is handing out a record-breaking fine that SkyPan has 30 days...
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