The public comment period on the FAA’s proposal to make the Mar-a-Lago airspace restriction permanent closed at 11:59 p.m. Eastern on Friday, October 2, 2026. More than 1,200 comments reached the FAA before the deadline.1 Thank you to everyone who wrote.
What the FAA has committed to. The proposal says the FAA will consider every comment received by the deadline before it finalizes the rule, and that it may change the rule in light of them.2
What happens next. The temporary restriction is in effect until October 20, 2026.2 The FAA reviews the comments before it issues a final rule. We will report what it decides, and what residents can do about it.
What is in the record. You can read the comments in the FAA’s public file. They include our petition3 and per-neighborhood noise records from our monitors.
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Footnotes
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By 4 p.m. Eastern on October 2, 2026, the FAA’s public file for docket FAA-2026-10827 already held 1,228 posted comments, all filed before the deadline. The FAA posts each comment after reviewing it, so the number was still rising; our home page carries the latest count. Anyone may comment, so the count is not a tally of residents or of positions. ↩
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The proposed rule (91 Fed. Reg. 56380, September 2, 2026): “Before finalizing this proposed rule, FAA will consider all comments it receives on or before the closing date for comments. FAA may change this proposed rule in light of the comments received.” It describes the existing restriction, NOTAM FDC 5/2809, as “currently in effect in the vicinity of Palm Beach, Florida until October 20, 2026” (Section IV.A.1), and as “an interim solution that would be replaced by the SFRA” it proposes. ↩ ↩2
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“Restore Safe and Livable Skies Over Palm Beach,” with 2,176 signatures recorded by Change.org as of September 28, 2026, filed as comment FAA-2026-10827-0792. ↩