FAA Launches Privacy System for Private Jet Owners, Impacting Public Tracking

FAA Tries to Stop You Tracking Celebrity Private Jets. Here's How

According to reports, the FAA's move to hide ownership details might not stop those who post private-jet details on social media.

Elon Musk Gets His Way, Private Jets Can Keep Their Flight Data Secret

After a Florida college kid got on Elon Musk’s wrong side by posting the travel coordinates of Musk’s private jet, the FAA just caved to the billionaire class and will allow private jets to keep their flight data secret.We had for years been enjoying a few laughs about the Florida college kid who was tracking the movements of Elon Musk’s private jet on social media, right up until Musk went and bought Twitter and then shut the kid’s account down…

New FAA Rule Allows Private Jet Owners to Maintain Travel Secrecy

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is implementing a data privacy policy that allows people with private jets to hide travel information from the public. “Private aircraft owners and operators can now electronically request that the FAA withhold their aircraft registration information from public view,” the agency said in a March 28 statement. “Starting today, they can submit a request through the Civil Aviation Registry Electronic Servic…

Private aviation is making a growing contribution to climate change

Commercial aviation’s contribution to climate change is growing, but the global role of private aviation is not well quantified. Here we calculate the sector’s CO2 emissions, using flight tracker data from the ADS-B Exchange platform for the period 2019 to 2023. Flight times for 25,993 private aircraft and 18,655,789 individual flights in 2019-2023 are linked to 72 aircraft models and their average fuel consumption. We find that private aviation…

Farewell 'ElonJet': The FAA just made it much more difficult to track private jets from the likes of Elon Musk and Taylor Swift

The FAA has changed rules that allow the tracking of private jets. The agency also says it’s considering making ownership information private by default at some point in the future. Elon Musk and Taylor Swift have called trackers that use the formerly publicly available data a threat. The days of being able to monitor where private planes owned by celebrities are coming to an end. A new rule change at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) wi…