UK CAA launches delivery plan to modernisation UK airspace

Plans to modernise the UK’s airspace by 2040 have taken a significant step forward, with the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) outlining how the skies could change in the next seven years. The regulator has published its ‘Airspace Modernisation Strategy, Part 3: Deployment Plan’, which sets out the key activities and milestones the industry and regulator will need to deliver together, alongside the regulatory frameworks it will set. This includes projects looking at how new airspace users, such as drones and vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, can fly safely in the same airspace as other aircraft. “Overhauling our airspace