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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. 970
CIVIL AVIATION
The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Tulliallan)
Regulations 2025
Made - - - - 21st August 2025
Coming into force - - 26th August 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 a multi-agency exercise taking place in
the vicinity of Tulliallan, Alloa, Fife.
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) (Tulliallan)
Regulations 2025 and they come into force on 26th August 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 0800 hours and ending with 1600 hours on
26th August 2025 no unmanned aircraft is to fly below 1,300 feet above mean sea level within the
area bounded by a circle having a radius of 1 nautical mile which is centred at 560436N
0034247W.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to any unmanned aircraft flying in accordance with a
permission issued by Police Scotland.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Karen L Michaels
Grade 7
21st August 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
Tulliallan, Alloa, Fife, during a multi-agency exercise that is due to take place there on 26th
August 2025.
At the request of Police Scotland, the Civil Aviation Authority and the Department for Transport
agree that the flying of unmanned aircraft should be restricted in the vicinity of the exercise 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), Police Scotland 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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