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Licence fees and costs

Learn more about the cost of your licence application.

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

The fee for your application will be taken when you submit your online application. For any paper applications or applications with variable fees, the licensing team will contact you to make your payment after submission.

Additional costs, such as the charge for using our secure courier service, are payable at the same time as the fee for your application. 

Please see below our licence issue pricing details.

Part-FCL Professional Licences

Service Fee
Initial issue of ATPL(A) or (H), CPL(A) and CPL(H) including upgrade from CPL / IR
(including Change of State)		 £341
Initial issue of MPL £341

Service Fee
Conversion of UK issued national or JAR CPL(A) or (H) to UK Part-FCL CPL(A) or (H) £195
Conversion of UK issued national or JAR ATPL(A) or (H) to UK Part-FCL ATPL(A) or (H) £195
Issue UK national licence with / following Part-FCL conversion if you hold / held a non-lifetime licence £50

Service Fee
Issue of Part-BFCL with instructor /examiner certificate via the BBAC £103

Ratings

Service Fee
Issue of professional rating excluding BFCL licences £170
Variation, revalidation or renewal £125
Additional rating on BFCL £125

Service Fee

Issue of:

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

Service Fee
Via recommendation from LAA - Initial licence issue £131
Via recommendation from LAA - Rating addition, variation, revalidation or renewal £55
Application direct to CAA - Initial licence issue £263
Application direct to CAA - Rating addition £170
Application direct to CAA - Rating variation, revalidation or renewal £125

Service Fee
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  £170
Issue of Mountain Instructor rating £170
Addition of FCL 945 £75
Variation, revalidation or renewal of instructor rating £125
Removal of limitation £125

Service Fee
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

Service Fee
Licence verification £61

Service Fee
Professional licence to PPL £103

Service Fee
Removal of remark or limitation £125

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

Service Fee
Initial issue  £438
Extension to validation £219
Variation  £75

 

Service Fee
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

Service Fee
CPL or IR Skill Test with UK examiner (full pass) £1,104
CPL or IR Skill Test with UK examiner (partial pass) £750