The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Ragley Hall, Alcester) Regulations 2024
| Year | 2024 |
2024 No. 463
CIVIL AVIATION
The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Ragley Hall, Alcester) Regulations 2024
Made 3April 2024
Coming into force 31May 2024
The Secretary of State has decided that it is necessary in the public interest to restrict flying in the area specified in regulation 3(1) by reason of the intended holding there of flying displays.
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) (Ragley Hall,
Alcester) Regulations 2024 and they come into force on 31st May 2024.
Interpretation
2. In regulation 3(2) the times referred to are Co-ordinated Universal Time(b).
Restricted airspace
3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), during the periods specified in paragraph (2) no aircraft is to
fly below 6,500 feet above mean sea level within the area bounded by a circle having a radius of 3
nautical miles centred at 521140N 0015423W.
(2) The periods referred to in paragraph (1) are between—
(a) 0900 hours and 2100 hours on 31st May 2024, and
(b) 0900 hours and 1830 hours on each of the two days of 1st June 2024 and 2nd June 2024.
(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply to any aircraft operating in accordance with a clearance issued
by the Midlands Airshow flying display director.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
David J Best
Grade 7
3rd April 2024 Department for Transport
(a) S.I. 2016/765, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.
(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 flying in the vicinity of Ragley Hall, Alcester,
Warwickshire during the Midlands Airshow flying displays for the public that are due to take
place there between 31st May 2024 and 2nd June 2024 (inclusive).
Many aircraft will be involved in high energy manoeuvres during the displays and therefore the
Civil Aviation Authority and the Department for Transport agree that flying should be restricted in
the vicinity of the event for reasons of public safety.
The times mentioned in regulation 3(2) are...
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