Permission to fly, sorted.
Tell DronePermit where the shoot is. It works out whose airspace you are in, fills in that aerodrome's own paperwork, and keeps every request in one place.
Everything works in your browser too, on any phone or computer. The iPhone and iPad app adds deadline reminders and one-tap form filling.
Your details only fill in airport forms. Never sold or shared. How your data is handled
What it looks like
Thirty seconds of the real thing, from a postcode to the finished request.
On your phone and your laptop
DronePermit runs in any browser, on anything. The iPhone and iPad app is out now and free with your account; on Android and on a laptop, use the website.
On a laptop, one click of a bookmark fills the aerodrome's own form. In the iPhone and iPad app it happens inside the app, in one tap.
Before an application deadline, and before your Flyer ID or Operator ID runs out.
Every request, reference and contact number in your pocket at the venue, and printable from the phone.
In the app, Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode can keep DronePermit shut to anyone else holding your phone.
What it costs
- Check any postcode against every UK restriction zone
- See all 160 aerodromes, and which country and region each is in
- Find out whether you need permission at all
Use the box below. Nothing to sign up for.
- Your first request is free, so you see it work on a real job before you pay
- Who to contact at each aerodrome, and how much notice they want
- Their paperwork filled in, ready to check and send
- Reminders before every deadline, and before your Flyer ID or Operator ID runs out
- Warnings when a temporary restriction covers your venue
- A year of aerodrome data updates included
Start with a free requestAlready signed up? Unlock it
A year of data updates is included. After that it renews at £19 a year to keep aerodrome contacts and notice periods current, and you can switch that off whenever you like. DronePermit itself is yours either way and keeps working on the data you already have.
Your data
Airport forms ask for personal details, so here is exactly what happens to yours.
Your operator and pilot details, IDs, drones and flights. The date of birth and home address are there only because NATS asks for them on its form.
DronePermit prepares the paperwork. Nothing goes to an aerodrome until you have read it and sent it yourself.
No advertising, no tracking cookies, no selling or sharing for marketing. Stored on a UK server, with connections encrypted. The page counts visits anonymously, with no cookie.
Download everything held about you, or erase your account and all of it at once, from your account page.
Read the full details on your data: who else sees what, how long it is kept, and your rights.
Check a venue
Type a postcode. This is the free part, and it answers the question most people actually have.
How it works
A postcode is enough. DronePermit checks it against every restriction zone in the country and tells you whose permission you need, and by when.
Your operator and pilot details, the drone, the times, the height. Whatever that aerodrome asks for, in the form or wording it expects.
Nothing leaves without you reading it first. Then it sits in your list with its status until the answer comes back.
Aerodromes covered
Every UK aerodrome with a Flight Restriction Zone, from Heathrow to a farm strip on Orkney. Filter the list to find one.
63 have their own process written up, down to the form and the wording. The other 97 use the contact published in the aeronautical publication.
Who to contact at each aerodrome, how much notice they need, which form they use and the wording they expect — that is what DronePermit does for you, for £39. Sign in to see how to apply to any of them. Create an account
Zones that are not aerodromes
The same official dataset also protects 99 prisons and 44 defence sites under the National Security Act, plus a handful of other places. DronePermit warns you when a venue falls inside one, but there is no application to make at any of them: you keep clear instead.
Asked about, but no restriction zone
These come up in searches, and some still appear in drone apps. None of them needs an application.
The airstrip is unlicensed, run by the Foula Airstrip Trust under an operating dispensation, so it is not a protected aerodrome and has no restriction zone.
Tain is an air weapons range, not an aerodrome. It has no restriction zone. What applies instead is danger area D703, which reaches 22,000 ft and covers drones as well as crewed aircraft.
Fixed-wing flying ended in 1954 and gliding in 2016. It has no ICAO entry, no traffic zone and no restriction zone.
The runway closed permanently in 2021 and the restriction zone was withdrawn in January 2022. Some maps and drone apps still show it.
The MOD sold the site in 2012. The only restriction zone there belongs to Campbeltown Airport, which HIAL runs, so apply to Campbeltown instead.
Scatsta closed in June 2020. It has no AIP entry and no restriction zone.