{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2016/article-136",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2016/article-136.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/765",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Navigation Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2016",
  "path": "article/136",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "136",
  "heading": "Requirement for appropriate licence to act as member of flight crew of Part-21 aircraft registered in the United Kingdom",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person must not act as a pilot of a Part-21 aircraft that is registered in the United Kingdom without holding an appropriate licence granted, converted or rendered valid under—\n(a) the Aircrew Regulation;\n(b) the Sailplane Regulation; or\n(c) the Balloon Regulation.\n(2) A person may act as a pilot of a Part-21 aircraft without holding an appropriate licence granted, converted or rendered valid under the ... Aircrew Regulation , Sailplane Regulation or Balloon Regulation when undergoing flying training, including solo flying training authorised and supervised by a flight instructor.\n(3) Subject to the exceptions set out in articles 139 and 144 a person must not act as a flight radiotelephony operator, a flight engineer or a flight navigator of a Part-21 aircraft that is registered in the United Kingdom without holding an appropriate licence granted or rendered valid under this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 136(1) substituted (1.10.2025) by The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/850), arts. 1(2), 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 136(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Aviation Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/645), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 32(4)(a) (with Sch. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2019/1098, regs. 1(3), 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in art. 136(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Aviation Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/645), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 32(4)(b) (with Sch. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2019/1098, regs. 1(3), 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 136(2) inserted (1.10.2025) by The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/850), arts. 1(2), 4(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 136(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Aviation Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/645), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 32(5) (with Sch. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2019/1098, regs. 1(3), 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in art. 136 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Aviation Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/645), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 32(2) (with Sch. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2019/1098, regs. 1(3), 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/765/article/136",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:21:35.381803+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."
}