S T A T U T O R Y I N S T R U M E N T S
2025 No. 391
CIVIL AVIATION
The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Helicopter Flight)
(No. 3) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
Made - - - - 26th March 2025
Coming into force - - 28th March 2025
The Secretary of State has decided that it is necessary in the public interest to amend the
restrictions imposed in the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying)...
S T A T U T O R Y I N S T R U M E N T S 2025 No. 391 CIVIL AVIATION The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Helicopter Flight) (No. 3) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 Made - - - - 26th March 2025 Coming into force - - 28th March 2025 The Secretary of State has decided that it is necessary in the public interest to amend the restrictions imposed in the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Helicopter Flight) (No. 3) Regulations 2025(a).
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by article 239 of the Air Navigation Order 2016(b).
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Helicopter Flight) (No. 3) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 and they come into force on 28th March 2025.
Amendment of the Regulations
2.—(1) The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Helicopter Flight) (No. 3) Regulations 2025 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 3 (Restricted airspace), paragraph (5), for sub-paragraph (c) substitute— “(c) flying in accordance with a clearance issued by—
(i) Farnborough Lower Airspace Radar Service (North),
(ii) Royal Air Force Brize Norton Terminal Air Traffic Control Centre (TATCC) South, or
(iii) the Air Traffic Control unit at Birmingham Airport.” Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport David J Best Grade 7 26th March 2025 Department for Transport
(a) S.I. 2025/379.
(b) S.I. 2016/765, as amended by S.I. 2024/990; there are other amending instruments, but none is relevant.EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Regulations) These Regulations amend the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Helicopter Flight) (No. 3) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/379) by adding a further exception to Regulation 3, paragraphs 1 to 4.
Full details of this Statutory Instrument will be promulgated by Briefing Sheet and 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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