Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has created a system for private aircraft owners to request that their registration information — including their name and address — be kept private. That may impact celebrity private jet trackers, which have used FAA registration information to identify jets belonging to the likes of Elon Musk and Taylor Swift.

The new FAA system was mandated by the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024, which gave the organization two years to establish a procedure...