{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2016/article-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2016/article-37.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/765",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Navigation Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2016",
  "path": "article/37",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Certificate of airworthiness for State aircraft registered in the United Kingdom",
  "text": "(1) This article applies to a non-Part-21 aircraft registered in the United Kingdom which is a State aircraft but which is not a military aircraft.\n(2) There must be in force for the aircraft either a national certificate of airworthiness or a Part-21 certificate of airworthiness issued by the CAA.\n(3) If there is in force a Part-21 certificate of airworthiness issued by the CAA the aircraft must—\n(a) comply with the Basic ... Regulation and any implementing rules made under that Regulation which would apply if it were a Part-21 aircraft;\n(b) comply with any United Kingdom national requirements made in accordance with article 70(1) of the Basic ... Regulation and in CAP 747 which would apply if it were a Part-21 aircraft;\n(c) comply with any United Kingdom national requirements for State aircraft in CAP 747; and\n(d) not fly within the airspace of another State without the permission of the competent authority of that State.\n(4) In this article, “CAP 747” means CAA publication CAP 747 entitled “Mandatory Requirements for Airworthiness , Issue 4, incorporating amendments to 2021/01, dated 1 January 2021” ....",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in art. 37(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Aviation Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/645), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 12(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": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 37(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Aviation Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/645), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 12(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": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 37(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Aviation Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/645), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 12(c)(i) (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": "Word in art. 37(3)(a) 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. 12(c)(ii)(aa) (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": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 37(3)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Aviation Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/645), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 12(c)(ii)(bb) (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": "Words in art. 37(3)(b) substituted (13.4.2022) by The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/321), arts. 1(1), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in art. 37(3)(b) 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. 12(c)(iii)(aa) (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": "F8",
      "text": "Words in art. 37(3)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Aviation Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/645), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 12(c)(iii)(bb) (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": "F9",
      "text": "Words in art. 37(4) inserted (4.11.2024) by The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/990), arts. 1(2), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in art. 37(4) omitted (14.12.2017) by virtue of The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/1112), arts. 1, 11"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/765/article/37",
    "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."
}