Almost 300,000 drones have been registered with the FAA
The Federal Aviation Administration says its drone registration system has hit almost 300,000 registrations, one month after launch.
The figure points to some success for the database, which was introduced on Dec. 21 and is aimed at instilling a mindset of safety in drone pilots, but is still well behind industry estimates of the number of drones sold in 2015 -- those were forecasting sales of around 700,000 drones.
So there's either still a lot of drones to be registered or those sales estimates are off. No one really knows.
Whatever the actual number out there, registrations continue to rise. When last updated on Jan. 6, the FAA said it had 181,000 registrations. It costs $5 and that charge was being refunded for the first month, which ended on Thursday.
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