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The major players in the commercial drone world recently gathered at the reston Hyatt, near Washington DC for the most recent FAA UAS Symposium, an event undertaken by the FAA and their partner the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International. AMA’s President, Rich Hanson was there as well as the Aero-News/AMA Drone Report crew -- who also produces the Airborne Unmanned program for AUVSI. In remarks made to the massive assemblage of drone community members, and in a one-on-one interview with ANN, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta noted that the drone registry now counts 770,000 vehicle registrations and over 37000 drone pilots. This adds some 100,000 registrations since we last talked to Adminis