Aircraft Registration Privacy: LADD, PIA and Ownership-Data Withholding Address Three Separate Exposures
Why It MattersOwners seeking privacy must combine separate measures, because tracking displays, broadcast addresses and registration records are distinct exposures that no single tool covers across the business aviation market.
Aircraft registration privacy covers several different kinds of information, and changing one does not necessarily change the others. Restricting a public flight-tracking display does not remove an owner's name from registration records, and withholding an owner's name does not stop an aircraft from broadcasting its position.

The FAA offers three separate tools: Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed (LADD), the Privacy ICAO Address (PIA) program, and a process to withhold specified ownership information from public dissemination. LADD, which the FAA says implements Section 803 (Data Privacy) of the…

















































