{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-amendment-order-2003/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-amendment-order-2003/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/777",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-amendment-order-2003",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Self-sustaining gliders",
  "text": "(1) After Article 54 there shall be inserted:\n“Operation of self-sustaining gliders\n54A. A self-sustaining glider shall not take-off under its own power.”.\n(2) In Article 129 after the definition of “General lighthouse authority” there shall be inserted:\n“‘Glider’ means:\n(i) a non-power-driven heavier-than-air aircraft, deriving its lift in flight chiefly from aerodynamic reactions on surfaces which remain fixed under given conditions of flight; and\n(ii) a self-sustaining glider;\nand a reference in this Order to a glider shall include a reference to a self-sustaining glider;”.\n(3) In Article 129 after the definition of “Self-launching motor glider” there shall be inserted:\n“‘Self-sustaining glider’ means an aircraft with the characteristics of a non-power-driven glider which is fitted with one or more power units capable of sustaining the aircraft in flight but which is not designed or intended to take off under its own power;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/777/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:27:54.444913+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}