Under 14 CFR §§ 107.120(b)(1) and 107.135, how must a remote pilot verify which category or categories of operations over people a small unmanned aircraft is eligible to conduct?
Why: 14 CFR § 107.120(b)(1) requires a permanent, legible label identifying Category 2 eligibility; § 107.135 requires the remote pilot to relabel the aircraft if that label is damaged, destroyed, or missing before conducting operations over people.
A physical label is required under § 107.120(b)(1)/107.130(b)(1); the manual is not a substitute — AC 107-2A § 8.11.2.3, p. 8-30, states an aircraft without a clearly legible label is not eligible to operate over people.
No per-flight FAA phone-verification requirement exists; the remote pilot instead checks the aircraft's label and may cross-check the public declaration-of-compliance database at uasdoc.faa.gov, per AC § 8.3.5.1.