Category: Transportation

FAA-Recognized Identification Areas (FRIAs)

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), UAS Data Delivery System

Commercial
Yes
Format
GeoJSON
Coverage
United States
Last updated
Added to findgis 31 Oct 2026 · Update frequency Irregular

Pilot and drone must stay inside the boundary with the aircraft in sight. Most sites are clubs, schools and research fields.

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Source and attribution

Publisher
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), UAS Data Delivery System
License
Public domain
Commercial use
Yes
Attribution required
No
Modification allowed
See publisher
Redistribution allowed
See publisher
Share-alike
No
U.S. Government work (17 U.S.C. 105); public domain. The ArcGIS item's own licence field (item c7ad6f733cce47b9a653e12010742361, https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=c7ad6f733cce47b9a653e12010742361, read 31 Oct 2026) holds only operational guidance on FRIAs under 14 CFR Part 89. It opens: "This dataset represents the locations of active and approved FAA-Recognized Identification Areas (FRIA)." It names no licence and no reuse or commercial-use restriction. FAA's own site terms: the FAA Disclaimer Statement (https://www.faa.gov/web_policies/disclaimer, read 31 Oct 2026) is a system-use notice ("This information system ... is provided for U.S. Government-authorized use only. Unauthorized or improper use of this system is prohibited") about the website itself; it has no copyright, licence or data-reuse terms. The FAA Privacy and Website Policy (https://www.faa.gov/privacy) has no copyright or reuse terms either. With no FAA licence, the data are a U.S. Government work in the public domain (17 U.S.C. 105). DOT web-policy pages on transportation.gov returned 403 to automated reads.License text
Type
Vector
Extent
-179.217.6-64.571.4West, south, east, north. Approximate region extent.

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