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Scope: This document specifies the basic requirements for airborne ADS-B IN equipment (i.e., independent external hardware devices) for civilian unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as requirements for equipment composition, functions, performance, interfaces, and safety maintenance. This document applies to the R&D, installation, testing, licensing, and maintenance of airborne ADS-B IN equipment for civilian unmanned aerial vehicles. Main technical content: In recent years, with the opening of low-altitude airspace, civilian unmanned aerial vehicles have witnessed rapid development. As the scale of civilian unmanned aerial vehicles continues to expand, higher demands have been placed on safe flight, low-altitude airspace utilization, and operational efficiency. Given the characteristics of civilian unmanned aerial vehicles, it is necessary to equip them with corresponding surveillance systems. ADS-B IN can provide effective surveillance means for the airspace operations of transport aircraft, but not all civilian unmanned aerial vehicles in China's low-altitude airspace have fully implemented the ADS-B IN system. Since the 21st century, frequent aviation safety incidents caused by insufficient surveillance means for civilian unmanned aerial vehicles in low-altitude airspace have occurred. ADS-B IN equipment can provide surveillance information about other aircraft in the surrounding airspace for civilian unmanned aerial vehicles, assisting them in collaborative collision avoidance to maintain safe operation, effectively managing low-altitude airspace to ensure safety, reducing aircraft occupancy of low-altitude airspace resources, and improving airspace utilization efficiency and application scope. China's civil aviation attaches great importance to the application and implementation of new surveillance technologies and has continuously strengthened research and application of technologies such as ADS-B surveillance. This technology has the advantages of low depl