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Licence fees and costs

Fees for each licence transaction, including licence and rating issue and rating renewal and revalidation.

EU exit

In the event of UK participation in EASA and mutual recognition of licences and certificates ceasing, some CAA website content and application forms may continue to carry the EASA logo or reference the EU or EASA rather than the UK CAA in the short term.

These will be updated in due course following the outcome of the transition period negotiations on the long-term aviation relationship between the UK and the EU. In the meantime, the guidance provided and the application forms accessed via the CAA website portal will continue to be valid.

The CAA charges a fee for the issue, renewal, conversion or revalidation of a pilot licence or rating.

If you are making your application using a paper form, you will be able to include payment details along with your application.

If you are using an online application form, you will be able to make a payment using the WorldPay system. Instructions on how to use WorldPay are included in the online form.

Additional costs, such as the charge for using our secure courier service, are payable at the same time as the fee for your application. All underpaid postage fees are recovered before your new licence can be issued.

See our licence issue pricing details below.

UK Part-FCL private licences

Initial issue of all Light Aircraft Pilot Licences for Helicopters (LAPL(H)) £215
Initial issue of PPL(A), (H) £263
Initial issue of BPL or SPL £263
Initial issue of Flight Radiotelephony Operator's Licence (FRTOL)

£105

(free if application is made at the same time for the issue of a flight crew licence or if a UK issued flight crew licence or one issued by the BMAA is already held)

Issue of SPL via the BGA £58
Issue of SPL with instructor/examiner certificate via the BGA £72

Conversion of UK lifetime PPL(B) via the BBAC for issue of BPL

Issue of BPL with instructor / examiner certificate via the BBAC £98

Conversion of Private UK issued licence to UK Part-FCL licence

Conversion from lifetime UK PPL to UK Part-FCL PPL £92
Conversion from non-lifetime UK licence to UK Part-FCL PPL £103
Conversion from UK issued JAR licence to a LAPL(H) £57
Issue UK national licence with or following UK Part-FCL conversion if you hold / held a non-lifetime licence £50
Issue UK national licence with or following UK Part-FCL conversion if you hold a lifetime licence No charge

Issue of private rating excluding Instrument Rating £170
Issue of Instrument Rating £170
Renewal of any private rating £125
Variation, revalidation or amendment to a rating already held £125

Ratings

Issue of:

  • Aerobatic
  • Banner towing
  • Flight test rating
  • IMC
  • Mountain rating
  • Night rating
 £170

Addition, variation, revalidation or renewal £55

Issue of instructor rating on private licence
(except balloon, airship, sailplane and AFI (microlight) powered parachute only)		 £170
Issue of instructor rating on professional licence (except Mountain Instructor (MI)) £170
Issue of Mountain Instructor rating £170
Addition of FCL 945 £75
Variation, revalidation or renewal of instructor rating £125
Removal of limitation £125
SFI / TRI initial issue £170
SFI / TRI revalidation, renewal, variation £125

TRE / SFE multi pilot revalidation, renewal initial issue (if conducted by a CAA staff examiner) £2,308
TRE / SFE multi pilot revalidation, renewal initial issue (if conducted by an industry senior examiner) £631
TRE / SFE multi pilot variation (adding an additional type) £208
TRE / SFE multi pilot variation (amending the authorisations remarks) £63
FE PPL revalidation, renewal. initial issue £475
FE CPL revalidation, renewal, initial issue £1,498

Other licensing actions

Licence verification £61

Professional licence to PPL £103

Removal of remark or limitation £119

Issue of 12 months certificate £170
Variation, revalidation or renewal £125

Initial issue £438
Extension to validation (only once for EASA validations) £219
Variation £75

Separate addition or amendment of English Language Proficiency £30
Licence replacement £63
Change of personal details (name and nationality) free
Change of name by marriage or divorce
(An additional charge of £63 applies if you also hold an examiner authorisation)		 free
Change of address free
Exemption to UK ANO £75
Derogation under Article 14 (less than 2 months) £75
Derogation under Article 14 (more than 2 months) £211

CPL or IR Skill Test with UK examiner (full pass) £1104
CPL or IR Skill Test with UK examiner (partial pass) £750