{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-isle-of-man-order-2015/article-176",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-isle-of-man-order-2015/article-176.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/870",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Navigation (Isle of Man) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-isle-of-man-order-2015",
  "path": "article/176",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "176",
  "heading": "Commercial air transport and aerial work – exceptions – flying displays",
  "text": "(1) A flight is, for the purposes of Part 7, a private flight if —\n(a) the flight is of a sort described in paragraph (2); and\n(b) the only valuable consideration for the flight or for the purpose of the flight is of a sort described in paragraph (3).\n(2) A flight is of a sort described in this paragraph if it is—\n(a) wholly or principally for the purpose of taking part in an aircraft race, contest or flying display;\n(b) for the purpose of positioning the aircraft for such a flight as is specified in sub-paragraph (a) and is made with the intention of carrying out such a flight; or\n(c) for the purpose of returning after such a flight as is specified in sub-paragraph (a) to a place at which the aircraft is usually based.\n(3) Valuable consideration is of a sort described in this paragraph if it is one or more of the following—\n(a) valuable consideration specified in article 173(1);\n(b) in the case of an aircraft owned in accordance with article 180(2), valuable consideration which falls within article 180(3);\n(c) valuable consideration given or promised to the owner or operator of an aircraft taking part in such a race, contest or flying display and such valuable consideration is not more than the direct costs of the flight and a contribution to the annual costs of the aircraft which contribution must bear no greater proportion to the total annual costs of the aircraft than the duration of the flight bears to the annual flying hours of the aircraft; or\n(d) one or more prizes awarded to the pilot in command of an aircraft taking part in an aircraft race or contest to a value that must not exceed £500 for any one race or contest except with the permission of the Department granted to the organiser of the race or contest.\n(4) A prize falling within paragraph (3)(d) is to be taken for the purposes of this Order not to constitute remuneration for services as a pilot.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 176 in force at 1.5.2015, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/870/article/176",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:40:33.436917+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}