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# The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2026

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2025/850 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
2026 No. 99
CIVIL AVIATION
The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2026
Made
3rd February 2026
Laid before Parliament
10th February 2026
Coming into force
3rd March 2026
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 3rd day of February 2026
Present,
The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
His Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Him by sections 60(1), (2)(b), (3)(d) and (h) and (4), 61(1)(a) and 101(1)(a) of, and Schedule 13 to, the Civil Aviation Act 1982 and paragraph 1(4)(a) of Schedule 11 to the Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Act 2021 is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order as follows:

## 1 Citation, commencement and extent {#article-1}

(1) This Order may be cited as the Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2026.
(2) This Order comes into force on 3rd March 2026.
(3) This Order extends to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

## 2 Amendment of the Air Navigation Order 2016 {#article-2}

(1) The Air Navigation Order 2016 is amended as follows.
(2) In article 265E (offences: tethered small unmanned aircraft)—
(a) in paragraph (2)(b)—
(i) after paragraph (ii) insert—
(iia) point UAS.OPEN.040(A1) (horizontal distance from uninvolved persons);
;
(ii) in paragraph (iv), for “horizontal distances” substitute “horizontal distance from certain areas”;
(iii) after paragraph (iv) insert—
(iva) point UAS.OPEN.040(2A) (horizontal distance from buildings);
;
(b) in paragraph (3)—
(i) after “(2)(b)(i), ” insert “(2)(b)(iia),”;
(ii) after “(2)(b)(iv)” insert “, (2)(b)(iva)”.
(3) In Schedule 1 (interpretation), in paragraph 1—
(a) in the definition of “Sailplane Regulation” omit “, as amended from time to time”;
(b) for the definition of “Unmanned Aircraft Implementing Regulation” substitute—
“Unmanned Aircraft Implementing Regulation” means Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/947 of 24 May 2019 on the rules and procedures for the operation of unmanned aircraft, as last amended by the Unmanned Aircraft (Amendment) Regulations 2025;
.

## 3 Amendment of the Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Act 2021 {#article-3}

In paragraph (a) of paragraph 2(3) of Schedule 9 to the Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Act 2021 (provision by remote pilots of information about UAS operators), in each of sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii), omit “of 250g or more”.