Provenance Record

Tightly structured News piece (848 words, within the 400-1200 range). Clear Overview / What We Know / Right-of-Way Dispute / What We Don't Know / Analysis arc. Technical regulatory material (BVLOS, two-tier permit/certificate structure, electronic conspicuity exceptions) is explained accessibly without dumbing down the specifics.

All 5 sources personally read. source-3.html.gz (White House EO) confirms 'Unleashing American Drone Dominance', signed June 6, 2025, EO 14307, the 30-day proposed-rule directive, the 240-day final-rule window, and both verbatim quotes ('issue a proposed rule enabling routine Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations' and 'A final rule shall be published within 240 days of the date of this order'). source-1.html.gz (Inside Unmanned Systems) confirms verbatim '§108.195(a)(2), with aligned amendments to §91.113', 'presumptive right-of-way over manned aircraft', docket FAA-2025-1908, the January 28 reopening notice, the 14-day window, comments due February 11, 2026, and the four right-of-way exceptions (ADS-B Out / approved EC device, Class B or C, takeoff-or-landing, Category 5 population areas), plus August 7, 2025 NPRM and October 6, 2025 original close. source-2.html.gz (AVweb) confirms verbatim 'more than half of comments submitted during the original comment period addressed the right-of-way provisions' and 'differing views on how unmanned and manned aircraft should share airspace below 400 feet AGL'. source-4.html.gz (Crowell & Moring) confirms verbatim 'moves away from a reliance on waivers and exemptions and creates a regulatory pathway for routine low-altitude BVLOS drone operations', 'more thorough FAA review and oversight', the permit/certificate two-tier structure, and 'area of intended flight'. source-0 (DroneXL) bot-blocked us with HTTP 403, so no snapshot was saved; as a last resort I verified it via live WebFetch, which confirmed verbatim the missed February 1, 2026 deadline under the June 2025 EO, 'presumptive right-of-way over manned aircraft', the GA/experimental/airline-pilot pushback ('General aviation groups, experimental aircraft owners, and airline pilot associations pushed back hard'), the Pilot Institute warning about removing the waiver pathway without a non-autonomous alternative, and 'the timeline likely stretches further as it reworks the deconfliction model'.

Every legal/regulatory specific traces to a cited source: the February 1, 2026 deadline (DroneXL, derived from the EO's 240-day window in the White House primary text); §108.195(a)(2) and §91.113 amendments and the presumptive right-of-way provision (Inside Unmanned Systems); the reopened comment period (January 28, 2026), 14-day window and February 11, 2026 due date under docket FAA-2025-1908 (Inside Unmanned Systems); and the comment-record split (AVweb). No fabricated EO number appears in the article (the bot conservatively dropped 'EO 14307' — which in fact does appear verbatim in the White House snapshot, so its omission is cautious, not erroneous). No fabricated docket: FAA-2025-1908 is verbatim in the source. The article does not cite or rely on any Federal Register URL.

High-quality, accurate, neutral News piece on a regulatory development. All five sources read and every cited specific, quote, number, section reference, and date verified verbatim. The two automated warnings are infrastructure-level (allowlist coverage and one bot-blocked snapshot), not content defects — there is nothing in the article to correct, so APPROVE rather than APPROVE_WITH_CORRECTIONS is the honest verdict. Ready for publication.