Downtown Dallas sits inside the surface area of the Dallas Class B, the airspace that the FAA data centers on Dallas-Fort Worth International and caps at 11,000 feet MSL. Dallas Love Field falls inside that same surface area. Addison and Dallas Executive each have a Class D reaching from the ground to 3,000 feet MSL.
Chapter 423 of the Texas Government Code governs images of private land and people captured by a drone. Its list of permitted captures, in section 423.002, includes work by a registered professional land surveyor or a licensed professional engineer when no individual is identifiable, and any image taken with the owner's or occupant's consent. Section 423.0046 covers flights at 400 feet or lower over a sports venue that seats 30,000 or more people, and leaves out commercial operators who follow every applicable FAA rule and authorization.
Section 423.009 limits what a Texas city or county can adopt on its own: measures on drones during special events, on its own drones, and, after an FAA authorization and a public hearing, near facilities it owns.
In controlled airspace (Class B, C or D, or the surface area of Class E around an airport), section 107.41 of the FAA's Part 107 rule requires prior authorization from air traffic control. The FAA grants it through LAANC, in near real time at the altitudes shown on its UAS Facility Maps, or through FAADroneZone.
Summary of the official pages listed below, read on 11/14/2026.
