AOPA Calls for Support To End ADS-B Billing
January 23, 2026
By Russ Niles
AOPA is calling on its 300,000 members to contact their elected officials to stop ADS-B from being used as an ATM for local airport authorities. The groups says it wants members to urge their senators and representatives to support the Pilot and Aircraft Privacy Act that would prohibit the use of ADS-B data to bill landing fees and other charges. More than 100 airports are doing that through third-party vendors who use their own software to collect the signals and trace the ownership of aircraft that touch down at their clients’ airports. Rep. Bob Onder, R-Mo., who is sponsoring the House bill along with Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C.) in the Senate said the practice has safety implications. “If ADS-B is being used by, I’ll say, bad actors to monetize airport landing fees, that’s going to discourage folks from employing ADS-B or adopting ADS-B in the first place or turning it off,” he said in a statement.
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