No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is faa.gov legit or a scam?
Official 28-year-old U.S. government site with clean scans and no scam reports against the legitimate domain.
Score breakdown
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
The site returned a server error when we tried to load it in our sandbox, so there was no page to capture. A working business almost always renders — treat this site as unverified.
We attempt a live render of every scanned site in a safe sandbox. This one couldn’t be reached — the failure itself is a signal, noted in the analysis below.
Visual analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual similarities noted — cleared by the overall checks
Our vision model noted some visual similarity to a known brand, but the domain, security records, and reputation checks confirm this is the legitimate site — so this is shown for transparency, not as a red flag.
What our vision model saw
1 signalLive capture returned a server/proxy error — the page could not be rendered
Intelligence
The domain faa.gov belongs to the Federal Aviation Administration, a U.S. federal agency. It was registered in 1997 and shows a clean record across our antivirus network and browser blocklists. The hosting IP carries zero abuse reports and the SSL certificate is valid. Evidence shows multiple scam sites impersonate the FAA for drone registrations, but none target the real faa.gov itself. The page content matches an official government site with proper .gov indicators and navigation to legitimate subdomains. Visual capture failed due to a server error, but this does not affect the strong legitimacy signals from domain age, ownership, and infrastructure data.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for faa.gov, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain faa.gov is the official website of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, an agency of the Department of Transportation.
- Registered 1997-10-02; age 28.8 years as of current date.
- Multiple warnings from FAA and media about third-party scam sites impersonating FAA for drone registrations, charging unauthorized fees.
- Reddit users report suspicious emails claiming to be from FAA (e.g., surveys via SurveyMonkey) and fake domains like faa-gov.us.
- Official subdomains include faadronezone-access.faa.gov for legitimate drone registration services.
- FAA maintains a hotline and complaint processes for reporting fraud, waste, abuse, or misconduct.
- No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews found directly targeting the legitimate faa.gov domain itself.
- Reddit r/dronesopen
"I receieved an email from supposedly the FAA asking for me to complete a survey via SurveyMonkey. Is this a scam?"
- Reddit r/Scamsopen
"FAA was FAA-gov.us. I got both of those domains shut down quick by the registrars."
- The Driveopen
"FAA Warns of Scammers Charging for Fake Drone Registrations... Malicious websites are posing as FAA approved sites and charging fees of up to $150."
- AirSightopen
"The FAA wants drone owners to beware of drone registrations scams. Malicious websites are posing as FAA approved sites and charging fees of up to $150."
Official U.S. federal government agency under Department of Transportation; .gov domain
Our research found four mentions of FAA-related scams on Reddit and in aviation media. These reports describe fake domains such as faa-gov.us and unauthorized drone registration sites charging fees. None of the reports involve the real faa.gov. The evidence confirms the FAA actively warns the public about impersonation attempts while maintaining official services on verified subdomains.
Domain Timeline
- Oct 1, 1997Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 29 years old today.
- Jul 9, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
faa.gov has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedContact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- Phone number listed (2608150945).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://faa.gov/
- 2302https://faa.gov/
- 3403http://www.faa.gov/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on faa.gov and not a lookalike like f-aa.gov.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
faa.gov is the official website of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. The domain is 28.8 years old, hosted on clean infrastructure, and carries no malicious detections. Users should verify they are on the real .gov address before entering any information.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on faa.gov. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- faa.gov passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 97/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. faa.gov presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1, expiring in 138 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- faa.gov is 28.8 years old, registered on 10/1/1997 through get.gov. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report faa.gov as clean.
- No. faa.gov is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- faa.gov resolves to an IP operated by Federal Aviation Administration in US (usage type: Government). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- Yes. faa.gov sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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