{"id":2312,"date":"2014-09-29T20:15:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T20:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2014-09-30T18:34:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:34:08","slug":"faa-exemptions-for-commercial-uas-movie-and-tv-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/2014\/09\/29\/faa-exemptions-for-commercial-uas-movie-and-tv-production\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA Exemptions for Commercial UAS Movie and TV Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release \u2013 U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx Announces\u00a0FAA Exemptions for Commercial UAS Movie and TV Production<\/p>\n<p>For Immediate Release<\/p>\n<p>September 25, 2014<br \/>\nContact: Les Dorr, Jr. or Alison Duquette<br \/>\nPhone: (202) 267-3883<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsBody\">\n<h2>Six Companies Can Now Fly Small UAS Following FAA-approved Safety Procedures<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">WASHINGTON<\/span>\u00a0\u2013 U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration has granted regulatory exemptions to six aerial photo and video production companies, the first step to allowing the film and television industry the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the National Airspace System.\u00a0 Secretary Foxx made the announcement on a conference call with FAA Administrator Michael Huerta and Chris Dodd, chairman and chief executive officer of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/news\/press_releases\/news_story.cfm?newsId=17194\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE &gt;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can view the FAA\u2019s exemption grants at\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2353ba;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/uas\/legislative_programs\/section_333\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/uas\/legislative_programs\/section_333\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on the FAA and UAS, go to\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2353ba;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/about\/initiatives\/uas\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/about\/initiatives\/uas\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View the story that aired on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\" target=\"_blank\">Today Show<\/a> &#8211; 09\/26\/2014&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/video\/today\/56121932#56121932\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2315\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Today092614.jpg\" alt=\"Today Show\" width=\"666\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Today092614.jpg 666w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Today092614-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release \u2013 U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx Announces\u00a0FAA Exemptions for Commercial UAS Movie and TV Production For Immediate Release September 25, 2014 Contact: Les Dorr, Jr. or Alison Duquette Phone: (202) 267-3883 Six Companies Can Now Fly Small UAS Following FAA-approved Safety Procedures WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013 U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[128,127],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faa","category-suas","tag-faa","tag-suas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions\/2316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}