The Air Navigation (Environmental Standards For Non-EASA Aircraft) Order 2008

Issue of noise certificate by the CAA for United Kingdom registered State aircraft or Research aircraft for which there is no EASA equivalent type

10.—(1) The CAA must issue a noise certificate in respect of any State aircraft or Research aircraft registered in the United Kingdom—

(a) for which a noise standard is included in Volume 1 of Annex 16; and

(b) for which there is no EASA equivalent type,

if it is satisfied that the aircraft complies with the applicable noise standard in Volume 1 of Annex 16.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) the applicant for a certificate must furnish such evidence and submit the aircraft to such flying trials and other tests as the CAA may require.

(3) The CAA must issue every noise certificate subject to a condition as to the maximum total weights at which the aircraft may land or take off and may issue such a certificate subject to such other conditions relating to standards as to noise as it thinks fit.

(4) For the purposes of determining the noise standard applicable to an aircraft where the interval between—

(a) the application for a type certificate and the first issue of a certificate of airworthiness for an aircraft of that type; or

(b) the application for a change of type design and the first issue of a certificate of airworthiness for an aircraft of that type as modified,

exceeds 5 years, the date on which the application for a type certificate or a change of type design was made is, unless the CAA in a particular case otherwise directs, deemed to be 5 years before the date of the first issue of the certificate of airworthiness.