The Federal Aviation Administration is due publish 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) on October 3.
The 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 §§ 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.”
“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,” says the document. “To be eligible for use, the sUA must meet the requirements of § 107.120(a) for Category 2 operations or § 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 § 107.120(a) or § 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.”
For more information
https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-19435.pdf
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