US to require drone registration amid wide-ranging safety concerns

FAA chief cites ‘troubling trend’ of close calls with pilots and wildfire-fighting operations in creating taskforce to determine regulation of private dronesHobbyist drone owners have flown too close to the fire for the last time: the US government announced this morning that it would require some publicly available drone aircraft to be registered to their owners, a move prompted by the growing number of reported close calls and incidents that pose safety risks, officials announced M