The Air Navigation Order 2009

Articles 150(2) and 156(3)

SCHEDULE 9 Documents to be carried

Circumstances in which documents are to be carried

1.  Subject to paragraph 3—

(a) on a public transport flight, Documents A, B, C, D, E, F, H and, if the flight is international air navigation, Documents G and I must be carried;

(b) on an aerial work flight, Documents A, B, C, E, F and, if the flight is international air navigation, Documents G and I must be carried;

(c) on a private flight which is international air navigation, Documents A, B, C, G and I must be carried;

(d) on a flight made in accordance with the terms of a permission granted to the operator under article 41(3), Document J must be carried.

Description of documents

2.  For the purposes of this Schedule—

(a) ‘Document A’ means the licence in force under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006(1) for the aircraft radio station installed in the aircraft;

(b) ‘Document B’ means in the case of a non-EASA aircraft the national certificate of airworthiness in force for the aircraft(2);

(c) ‘Document C’ means the licences of the members of the flight crew of the aircraft;

(d) ‘Document D’ means one copy of the load sheet, if any, required by article 100 for the flight;

(e) ‘Document E’ means one copy of each certificate of maintenance review required by article 25(2), if any, in force for the aircraft;

(f) ‘Document F’ means the technical log, if any, in which entries are required to be made under article 27(2);

(g) ‘Document G’ means the certificate of registration in force for the aircraft;

(h) ‘Document H’ means those parts of the operations manual, if any, required by article 86(4)(c) to be carried on the flight;

(i) ‘Document I’ means a copy of the notified procedures to be followed by the pilot in command of an intercepted aircraft, and the notified visual signals for use by intercepting and intercepted aircraft;

(j) ‘Document J’ means the permission, if any, granted for the aircraft under article 41(3).

Exceptions

3.—(1) If the certificate of airworthiness includes the flight manual for the aircraft and with the permission of the CAA, an aircraft to which article 83 applies need not carry the flight manual as part of Document B.

(2) With the permission of the CAA, an aircraft to which article 83 applies need not carry Document J if it carries an operations manual which includes the detailed information specified at paragraph 1(s) of Part A of Schedule 8.

Definition

4.  For the purposes of this Schedule, ‘international air navigation’ means any flight which includes passage over the territory of any country other than the United Kingdom, but does not include passage over any of the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or any other relevant overseas territory to which there is power to extend the Civil Aviation Act 1982(3)under section 108(1) of that Act.

(1)

2006 c.36.

(2)

An EASA aircraft is required by virtue of Part 21 to carry its certificate of airworthiness or restricted certificate of airworthiness during all flights.

(3)

1982 c.16; section 108(1) was amended by the Airports Act 1986 c.31, section 83(1) and Schedule 4, paragraph 8(2).