Definitions

US Legal | Ownership of Airspace Over Property
US Legal | Rights in Airspace and Relative Rights of Surface Proprietors
Pilot Institute | Class B Airspace Explained

Federal Regulations

49 U.S. Code § 40103 - Sovereignty and use of airspace
49 U.S. Code § 40102 - Definitions
FAA AC 91-36D - Visual Flight Rules (VFR) Flight Near Noise-Sensitive Areas
14 CFR Part 77 - Safe, Efficient Use, and Preservation of the Navigable Airspace

Scholarly Articles

Christina O. Morris, Noise Pollution: Attempted Federal Control of Airplane Noise, 18 NAT. RES. J. 621 (1978)
C. D. Hogue Jr., Aviation -- Liability of Airport for Low Flying -- Flights Through Airspace as Taking of an Easement, 25 N.C. L. Rev. 64
(1946).
Kettelson, Ernest S. “INVERSE CONDEMNATION OF AIR EASEMENTS.” Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal 3, no. 1 (1968): 97–110
Scott P. Keifer, Aircraft Overflights as a Fifth Amendment Taking: The Extension of Damages for the Loss of Potential Future Uses to Aviation Easements. Brown v. United States, 4 Mo. Envtl. L. & Pol'y Rev. 88 (1996)
J. Joseph Cummings, Ownership and Control of Airspace, 37 Marq. L. Rev. 176 (1953).
Pierce Giboney, Don't Ground Me Bro!: Private Ownership of Airspace and How It Invalidates the FAA's Blanket Prohibition on Low Altitude Commercial Drone Operations, 67 Fla. L. Rev. 2149 (2015).
Ownership of Airspace Over Property
Colin Cahoon, Low Altitude Airspace: A Property Rights No-Man's Land, 56 J. Air L. & Com. 157 (1990)
Hillary B. Farber, Keep Out! The Efficacy Of Trespass, Nuisance And Privacy Torts As Applied To Drones, 33 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 359 (2017)
Stanley L. Lester, Nuisance -- As a "Taking" of Property, 17 U. Miami L. Rev. 537 (1963)
Mary Jo Soenksen, Note, Airports: Full of Sound and Fury and Conflicting Legal Views, 12 Transp. L.J. 325 (1982).
Robert K. Eifler S.Ed., CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-TAKING PRIVATE PROPERTY FOR PUBLIC USE-CONTROL OF AIRSPACE, 45 MICH. L. REV. 875 (1947).

Case Law

United States v. Gaidys
Smith v. New England Aircraft Co. Inc.
Baker v. Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority
Batten v. United States
Swetland v. Curtiss Airports Corp.

Opinion Pieces

Who controls low-altitude airspace?
Causby and effect: How the Uniform Law Commission’s misplaced reliance on a 1946 Supreme Court case threatens the drone industry

Further Reading
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