Security Scan: FAA Targets 2028 to Retire Floppy Disks

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This website contacted 14 IPs in 2 countries across 8 domains to perform 62 HTTP transactions. The main domain is generalaviationnews.com and was registered 25 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://generalaviationnews.com/2026/11/09/faa-targets-2028-to-retire-floppy-disks/

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 95%

Risk Score

Long-established general aviation news site publishing a news article about the FAA retiring floppy disks. No credential or payment forms, no impersonation, no threat-intelligence hits.

Safety Factors (4)

25-year-old domain with business identity and legal information (Flyer Media, Inc.)

Standard WordPress news site structure with privacy policy and comment policy

Forms are limited to site search, newsletter signup, and comment submission — no credential harvesting

Analytics via sendBeacon to a ranked, legitimate analytics provider (cdn.usefathom.com)

Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

FAA Targets 2028 to Retire Floppy Disks

Scan Type

public

Favicon Hash

MMH3: 1267015892

MD5: 3175489d46c90339fd1b4d1e6fb094f2

Domain Name Analysis

Domain 'generalaviationnews.com' uses the commercial generic top-level domain (.com). Its registrable label 'generalaviationnews' stretches across 19 characters holding nine vowels versus 10 consonants. Word splitting yields 3 words: general, aviation, news. Median word length comes out to 7 characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

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Page Load Overview

3.33s

Total Load Time

604 KB

Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English

Code: en

Confidence:80%

Script:Latin

Direction:ltr

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en-US

Text Length:3,787 chars

Detector Agreement:95%

All Detected Languages

🇺🇸en(98%)🇳🇴no(2%)

Website Classification

Primary Category

news/blog70% confidence

Type: spa

Method: structural

All Detected Categories

news/blog

70%

news

30%

Detected Features

Articles

Comments

OG: article

Domain & IP Information

Requests	IP Address	Location	AS Autonomous System
37	104.26.9.177Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
10	172.67.71.65Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
10	165.227.104.115	Clifton, New Jersey, United States	AS14061DigitalOcean, LLC
4	52.92.218.113Aws · CLOUD	Boardman, Oregon, United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
4	185.111.111.155	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS212238Datacamp Limited
4	104.26.8.177Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
4	52.92.189.217Aws · CLOUD	Boardman, Oregon, United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
4	16.15.43.119Aws · CLOUD	Boardman, Oregon, United States	AS16509Amazon.com, Inc.
4	104.16.79.73Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
4	104.18.0.22Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
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