{"id":2021,"date":"2016-05-23T07:08:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T05:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quadcopterguide.com\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2016-05-20T14:10:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T12:10:47","slug":"faa-releases-drone-registration-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quadcopterguide.com\/faa-releases-drone-registration-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA Releases Drone Registration Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Shutterstock<\/span><\/p>\n The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday released two databases of all registered commercial and hobby drones in the U.S., five months after announcing a rule that all owners of drones greater than 0.55 pounds need to register their aerial vehicles online with the government.<\/p>\n California is home to Silicon Valley, Silicon Beach, and now \u2014 it appears \u2014 Silicon Sky. The state comes in No. 1 for having the most registered drones, both in the commercial and hobby space.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n In the commercial drone space, Menlo Park, Calif. takes the cake for having the most registered drones. Menlo Park, which has 176 registered drones, is one of the cities that makes up Silicon Valley and is home to Facebook Inc.\u00a0(which is working on drones of its own). It\u2019s also home to startups such as drone delivery company Matternet and Skydio, which was founded by a team of researchers from MIT and Google\u2019s drone team, and creates drones that are smart enough to react to and avoid obstacles like trees, similar to DJI’s Phantom 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other areas topping the list include Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, as well as Los Angeles and its neighboring city Burbank, where crews are increasingly using drones to shoot Hollywood films.<\/p>\n Cities with the most registered commercial drones<\/strong><\/p>\n