AP Enterprise: FAA loses track of 119,000 aircraft

[GoldenRivet]

Despite the date of publication this is fairly old news.

The FAA, some time in October, released an order that all aircraft had to be re-registered. Then, the registration would have to be renewed every 3(?) years after the initial registration.

There had previously not been a requirement to renew the registration that i am aware of, unless the aircraft had been sold or the owner had a change in permanent mailing address.

this renewal of registration is something they should have been doing all along. with FAA funding in the toilet and getting worse, a scant $5 fee for re registration every 3 years multiplied times nearly 400,000 aircraft comes out to $2M extra every few years. considering the registration renewals will be staggered (not all will renew at once) the cash flow will be fairly constant throughout the fiscal year on renewals alone.