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# 2021 No. 590 

# CIVIL AVIATION 

The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Stonehenge) Regulations 2021 

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The Secretary of State has decided that it is in the public interest to restrict flying in the vicinity of Stonehenge, Wiltshire, by reason of the intended gathering of a large number of persons for the Summer and Winter Solstice events scheduled to be held there. 

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by article 239 of the Air Navigation Order 2016( a ). 

## Citation and commencement 

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Stonehenge) Regulations 2021 and come into force on 20th June 2021. 

## Interpretation 

2.  In regulation 3(1) the times referred to are Co-ordinated Universal Time( b ). 

## Restricted airspace 

3. —(1) Subject to paragraph (2), no aircraft is to fly below 3,000 feet above mean sea level within the area bounded by a circle having a radius of 3 nautical miles whose centre is at 511044N 0014934W between— 

(a) 1700 hours on 20th June and 1100 hours on 21st June 2021, and 

(b) 2100 hours on 21st December and 1100 hours on 22nd December 2021. 

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to any aircraft— 

(a) operating by or on behalf of— 

(ii) the National Police Air Service, 

(b) flying— 

(i) the Helicopter Emergency Services, or 

(i) with the permission of Wiltshire Police, 

