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S T A T U T O R Y I N S T R U M E N T S
2025 No. 1100
CIVIL AVIATION
The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Crumpsall)
Regulations 2025
Made - - - - 14th October 2025
Coming into force - - 20th October 2025
The Secretary of State has decided that it is in the public interest to restrict the flying of unmanned
aircraft in the area specified in regulation 3(1) by reason of the intended visit there of a VIP.
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by
article 239 of the Air Navigation Order 2016(a).
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Crumpsall)
Regulations 2025 and they come into force on 20th October 2025.
Interpretation
2. In regulation 3(1) the times referred to are Co-ordinated Universal Time(b).
Restricted airspace
3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), beginning with 1100 hours and ending with 1600 hours on
20th October 2025 no unmanned aircraft is to fly below 900 feet above mean sea level within the
area bounded by a circle having a radius of 0.81 of a nautical mile which is centred at 533112N
0021454W.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to any unmanned aircraft flying in accordance with a
permission issued by the Greater Manchester Police Service.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Karen L Michaels
Grade 7
14th October 2025 Department for Transport
(a) S.I. 2016/765, amended by S.I. 2024/990; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.
(b) Co-ordinated Universal Time (UTC) is one hour behind British Summer Time (BST).EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations impose restrictions on the flying of unmanned aircraft in the vicinity of
Crumpsall, Greater Manchester where a VIP visit is due to take place on 20th October 2025.
At the request of the Greater Manchester Police Service, the Civil Aviation Authority and the
Department for Transport agree that the flying of unmanned aircraft should be restricted in the
vicinity of the visit for reasons of public safety and security.
The times mentioned in regulation 3(1) are Co-ordinated Universal Time (UTC) which is one hour
behind British Summer Time (BST).
In relation to the permission mentioned in regulation 3(2), the Greater Manchester Police Service
may be contacted as notified.
Full details of this Statutory Instrument will be promulgated by Notice to Aviation (NOTAM).
The point of contact in the Civil Aviation Authority is Mr David Ridley, Airspace Regulator,
Safety and Airspace Regulation Group, on telephone number 03301 382471.
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