Civil Aviation Safety Authority

Civil Aviation Safety Regulations
(CASR 1998)

CASR Part 101
Unmanned aircraft and rocket operations

Part 101 consolidates the rules governing all unmanned aeronautical activities into one body of legislation. It prescribes the rules for the use of unmanned moored balloons and kites, unmanned free balloons, unmanned rockets, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), model aircraft, and pyrotechnic displays.

It provides new regulations for unmanned aircraft and firework displays but minimal change to existing regulations for balloons, rockets and model aircraft from existing Civil Aviation Orders (CAOs).

Regulations

Part 101 - Unmanned aircraft and rocket operations (190kb) – prepared by CASA's Drafting and Commercial Branch, Legal Services Group for information purposes only. It is not the official version of the legislation.

Complete CASRs – produced by the Attorney General's Department.

Advisory Circulars

AC 101-1(0) - Unmanned aircraft and rockets - unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations, design specification, maintenance and training of human resources (340kb, July 2002)

AC 101-2(0) - Unmanned aircraft and rockets - rockets (441kb, July 2002)

AC 101-3(0) - Unmanned aircraft and rockets - model aircraft (508kb, July 2002)

 
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