Your drone's Part 48 registration expires next August. You complete the renewal verification in March, five months early. When will the renewed registration expire?
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The answer is B: Three years from the old expiration date
Renewal may be done any time in the six months before the month the registration expires, and the renewed certificate runs three years from the previous certificate's expiration date, so renewing early loses no time. Counting from the renewal day ignores that rule, and 24 calendar months is the pilot recency cycle, not a registration term.
Why not ?
Source: 14 CFR 48.100(c) ACS UA.I.B.K1
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The answer is B: Three years from the old expiration date
Renewal may be done any time in the six months before the month the registration expires, and the renewed certificate runs three years from the previous certificate's expiration date, so renewing early loses no time. Counting from the renewal day ignores that rule, and 24 calendar months is the pilot recency cycle, not a registration term.
Source: 14 CFR 48.100(c) ACS UA.I.B.K1