Originally Posted by
astrohog
To my knowledge, the FAA has never officially designated any group as a CBO. The closest they have come is to make a statement something to the effect of, "...a Community Based Organization, like the AMA...". If I recall, the AMA was pushing for the FAA to clarify and officially announce a list of recognized CBO's, but I do not believe they have done so, and I have a feeling that they are very reluctant to actually do so.
Regards,
Astro
I believe the reluctance is due in part to the AMA being the only organization that is even close to being a CBO. And in light of some of their antics over all this, the FAA doesn't want to give them any more leverage than they might already have. Another gauge by which one can determine the governments real opinion of the AMA.
On the flip side, there are quite a few new drone focused organizations which could probably serve as CBO's except, they are all on the "for profit" side of business. Were that qualification of non-profit be removed from the government definition of CBO, I suspect we'd see a FAA list and there would be more than a few organizations on it.