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Licences and other approvals News

Setting the path to drone deliveries and remote inspections: Making beyond visual line of sight drone operations commonplace 9 December, 2019

UK Civil Aviation Authority update on Thomas Cook refunds programme 5 December, 2019

Drone flyers must register by this weekend or risk £1,000 fine warns Civil Aviation Authority 27 November, 2019

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Licences and other approvals Blogs

Our unmanned aircraft systems unit 5 June, 2019

Inspecting commercial drone operators 29 March, 2019

World ATM Congress….or should that be World UTM Congress? 22 March, 2019

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