Drone licence cost: UK Drone Fees And Charges

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).

2 of the 9 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 7 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 3 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.

The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 26 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.

The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per CAA charge that a drone operator can actually incur - Operator ID registration and renewal, an RAE approval, a PDRA Operational Authorisation, a SORA-based Operational Authorisation by SAIL, an LUC - quoted from the Scheme of Charges for RPAS with its commencement date, held as a SERIES across scheme years.

The derivation nobody publishes: the total cost of getting to a given authorisation - the regulator's charge plus the market price of the certificate it requires, joined from the training price index - and the year-on-year change per charge, which is the figure the trade press reports as a single headline percentage while the individual charges move by very different amounts.

This charter records a real obstacle rather than hiding it: the CAA publishes the Scheme of Charges as a PDF that the estate's reader returns zero characters of text from, so the amounts are collected by a person reading that PDF and the CAA's HTML pages are what the site watches for a new edition.

26 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.