---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 107.110"
title: "14"
number: "107.110"
heading: "Category 1 operations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/107.110"
---

# §107.110. Category 1 operations.


To conduct Category 1 operations—

- (a) A remote pilot in command must use a small unmanned aircraft that—
  - (1) Weighs 0.55 pounds or less on takeoff and throughout the duration of each operation under Category 1, including everything that is on board or otherwise attached to the aircraft; and
  - (2) Does not contain any exposed rotating parts that would lacerate human skin upon impact with a human being.
- (b) No remote pilot in command may operate a small unmanned aircraft in sustained flight over open-air assemblies of human beings unless the operation meets the requirements of either [§ 89.110](/cfr/14/89.110.md) or [§ 89.115(a)](/cfr/14/89.115.md?p=a) of this chapter.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Amdt. 107-8, 86 FR 4382, Jan. 15, 2021, as amended by 86 FR 62473, Nov. 10, 2021]

### Source

Source: Amdt. 107-8, 86 FR 4382, Jan. 15, 2021

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40101 note, 40103(b), 44701(a)(5), 46105(c), 46110, 44807.

### Source

Source: Docket FAA-2015-0150, Amdt. 107-1, 81 FR 42209, June 28, 2016, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Amdt. 107-8, 86 FR 4382, Jan. 15, 2021, as amended by 86 FR 62473, Nov. 10, 2021]