Rule2025-19435
Accepted Means of Compliance for Small Unmanned (sUA) Aircraft Category 2 and Category 3 Operations Over Human Beings; Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions Inc. (AVSS)
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Published
October 3, 2025
Effective
October 3, 2025
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentFederal Aviation Administration
Abstract
This document announces the acceptance of a means of compliance with FAA regulations for sUA Category 2 and Category 3 operations over human beings. The Administrator finds that AVSS's "Means of Compliance with Sec. Sec. 107.120(a) and 107.130(a) for Small Unmanned Aircraft," revision 6, dated January 7, 2025, provides an acceptable means, but not the only means, of showing compliance with FAA regulations.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 190 (Friday, October 3, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 47969]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-19435]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Part 107
[Docket No. FAA-2025-0412]
Accepted Means of Compliance for Small Unmanned (sUA) Aircraft
Category 2 and Category 3 Operations Over Human Beings; Aerial Vehicle
Safety Solutions Inc. (AVSS)
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notification of availability.
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SUMMARY: This document announces the acceptance of a means of
compliance with FAA regulations for sUA Category 2 and Category 3
operations over human beings. The Administrator finds that AVSS's
``Means of Compliance with Sec. Sec. 107.120(a) and 107.130(a) for
Small Unmanned Aircraft,'' revision 6, dated January 7, 2025, provides
an acceptable means, but not the only means, of showing compliance with
FAA regulations.
DATES: The means of compliance is accepted effective October 3, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
FAA Contact: Kimberly Luu, Cabin Safety Section, AIR-624, Technical
Policy Branch, Policy and Standards Division, Aircraft Certification
Service, Federal Aviation Administration, 2200 South 216th Street, Des
Moines, Washington 98198; telephone and fax 206-231-3414; email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b6fddfdbd4d3c4dacf98fe98fac3c3f6d0d7d798d1d9c0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c78caeaaa5a2b5abbee98fe98bb2b287a1a6a6e9a0a8b1">[email protected]</span></a>.
AVSS Contact: Josh Ogden, CEO, AVSS, 570 Queen Street, Suite 600,
Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B-6Z6, Canada, +1 (650) 741-1326;
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#165f7870795677606565387579"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e7ae898188a786919494c98488">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, part 107, subpart D,
prescribes the eligibility and operating requirements for civil sUA to
operate over human beings in the United States. To be eligible for use,
the sUA must meet the requirements of Sec. 107.120(a) for Category 2
operations or Sec. 107.130(a) for Category 3 operations. These
sections require the sUA to be designed, produced, or modified such
that it will not cause injury to a human being above a specified
severity limit, does not contain any exposed rotating parts that would
lacerate human skin, and does not contain any safety defects. Section
107.155 requires that means of compliance with Sec. 107.120(a) or
Sec. 107.130(a) be established and FAA-accepted. Section 107.160
requires an applicant to declare that sUA for Category 2 or Category 3
operations meet an FAA-accepted means of compliance.
Means of Compliance Accepted
This notification of availability serves as a formal acceptance by
the FAA of the AVSS's ``Means of Compliance with Sec. Sec. 107.120(a)
and 107.130(a) for Small Unmanned Aircraft,'' revision 6, as an
acceptable means of compliance, but not the only means of compliance
with Sec. Sec. 107.120(a) and 107.130(a). Applicants may also propose
alternative means of compliance for FAA review and possible acceptance.
Revisions
Revisions to AVSS's ``Means of Compliance (MOC) with Sec. Sec.
107.120(a) and 107.130(a) for Small Unmanned Aircraft (sUA),'' revision
6, will not be automatically accepted and will require further FAA
acceptance for any revisions to be considered an accepted means of
compliance.
Issued in Kansas City, Missouri, on September 30, 2025.
Patrick R. Mullen,
Manager, Technical Policy Branch, Policy and Standards Division,
Aircraft Certification Service.
[FR Doc. 2025-19435 Filed 10-2-25; 8:45 am]
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