Aircraft , at the time of that writing , meaning man carrying contrivances . Had they meant to include model representations of real aircraft , it would have said so . Now , since the FAA has exempted non man carrying copies of real aircraft from part 107 , they are not true aircraft in the eyes of the FAA , being copies or models of real aircraft in other words . Any Lawyer worth his pay would shoot down the model plane = real aircraft argument in a literal blink of an eye .
This is a currant policy written well after the FAA claimed that model airplanes are aircraft.