Yep, it's all in the title, and as ridiculous as it sounds. I'm brand new to this drone thing, took a quick spin after a doctors appointment, cool mountain shots, then cuffed/interrogated for seven hours, thrown in jail for a week, car impounded...
I've said this before but I think it bears repeating. If a drone does not get a valid FCC DoC then the serial number cannot be entered into the FAA database and therefore cannot be registered. Obviously drones that already have a valid DoC are...
Preventing registration offers no benefit to the FAA. That just creates involuntary civil disobedience. Any drone already previously approved with a compliant serial number should continue to be registrable with the FAA, unless retroactively...