I made an update to my previous comment. I think you, as the pilot, can be registered with the FAA as a recreational flyer with a single unique registration number with zero drones in your inventory. Cancelling the only drone (or last active...
Now might be a good time to visit the NPS, apparently you can drive right in as they are still open but unmanned. The rules are still the same but many parks have furloughed federal employees.
Well, they went to the trouble of getting it approved by the FCC and making it RID capable. No reason why it should perform differently in the U.S. than elsewhere with the Regular battery, especially in terms of broadcasting when it shouldn’t...
Since it's only $5, I would suggest you renew as well and then revisit in several more years. When you cancel the individual drone then you are basically saying the drone is no longer part of your inventory of drones that you intend to register...
I haven't seen it lately but I seem to recall Payload mode being activated automatically when I attached stuff to the drone and I definitely didn't turn it on manually; how did that happen?