The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order 2013

Use of aerodromes and operating sites

156.—(1) The Governor may cause to be notified any military aerodrome as an aerodrome available for the take-off and landing of aircraft engaged on flights in any of the categories referred to in paragraph (3) of this article.

(2) An aircraft to which paragraph (3) applies must not take off or land at a place in the Territory other than—

(a) an aerodrome certificated under article 155 for the take-off and landing of such aircraft; or

(b) a military aerodrome notified under paragraph (1) as available for the take-off and landing of such aircraft, or in respect of which the person in charge of the aerodrome has given permission for the particular aircraft to take off or land as the case may be;

and in accordance with any conditions subject to which the aerodrome may have been certificated or notified, or subject to which such permission may have been given.

(3) Paragraph (2) applies to—

(a) aircraft which are flying for the purpose of international operations;

(b) aircraft having a maximum approved passenger seating configuration of more than 9 which are flying for the purpose of commercial air transport operations; and

(c) aircraft having a certificated take-off mass exceeding 15,000 kg operating a flight for the purpose of commercial air transport.

(4) Paragraph (2) does not apply to or in relation to an aircraft flying under and in accordance with the terms of a police air operator’s certificate.

(5) The Governor may direct the operator of an aerodrome in the Territory that is not certificated under article 155 to make available at the aerodrome such rescue and fire fighting services as maybe specified, having regard to the nature and scope of the aircraft operations undertaken at the aerodrome.

(6) The person in charge of any place in the Territory intended to be used for the taking off or landing of helicopters at night must cause to be in operation, whenever a helicopter flying for the purpose of the commercial air transport of passengers is taking off or landing at that area by night, such lighting as will enable the pilot of the helicopter—

(a) in the case of landing, to identify the landing area in flight, to determine the landing direction and to make a safe approach and landing; and

(b) in the case of taking off, to make a safe take-off.

(7) For the purposes of paragraph (3)(a) “international operations” are operations in respect of which the point of departure of the flight and the point of its destination are in two different States or in respect of which the flight passes through the sovereign airspace of the territory of more than one State.