# Drone licence cost: UK Drone Fees And Charges

> The UK Drone Fees And Charges carries 4 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 12.34 to 524 GBP, read 12 September 2026.

Drone Licence Checker · https://dronelicencechecker.co.uk/datasets/uk-drone-fees-and-charges/ · computed 2026-10-05

**Range of the published figures:** 12.34 to 524 GBP (range 346 to 346 GBP; 2 sources with a figure; 2 of 9 sources read publish one).

2 of the 9 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 12 September 2026.

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Read |
|---|---|---|
| [ARPAS-UK: CAA announce 2026-27 Scheme of Charges](https://arpas.uk/caa-announce-2026-27-scheme-of-charges/) | 524 GBP | 2026-09-12 |
| [ARPAS-UK: CAA announce 2026-27 Scheme of Charges](https://arpas.uk/caa-announce-2026-27-scheme-of-charges/) | 346 GBP | 2026-09-12 |
| [Unmanned Support: 2026-27 Scheme of Charges consultation](https://www.unmannedsupport.co.uk/2026-27-scheme-of-charges-consultation/) | 346 GBP | 2026-09-12 |
| [ARPAS-UK: CAA announce 2026-27 Scheme of Charges](https://arpas.uk/caa-announce-2026-27-scheme-of-charges/) | 12.34 GBP | 2026-09-12 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (4)

- [ARPAS-UK: CAA announce 2026-27 Scheme of Charges](https://arpas.uk/caa-announce-2026-27-scheme-of-charges/), read 2026-09-12: "PDRA01 fee increases from £500 to £524."
- [ARPAS-UK: CAA announce 2026-27 Scheme of Charges](https://arpas.uk/caa-announce-2026-27-scheme-of-charges/), read 2026-09-12: "Any time above these baselines will be charged at £346 per hour."
- [Unmanned Support: 2026-27 Scheme of Charges consultation](https://www.unmannedsupport.co.uk/2026-27-scheme-of-charges-consultation/), read 2026-09-12: "There is also a reduction to the hourly rate for additional hours on these higher-risk projects from £496/hr to £346/hr next year."
- [ARPAS-UK: CAA announce 2026-27 Scheme of Charges](https://arpas.uk/caa-announce-2026-27-scheme-of-charges/), read 2026-09-12: "Increase the DMARES Operator ID fee, currently £12.34"

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [CAA: UK Civil Aviation Authority launches consultation on charges for 2026/27](https://www.caa.co.uk/newsroom/news/uk-civil-aviation-authority-launches-consultation-on-charges-for-202627/), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [CAA: Statutory Charges Consultation 2026-27 (Citizen Space)](https://consultations.caa.co.uk/finance/caa-statutory-charges-consultation-26-27/), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [CAA Skywise: CAA Schemes of Charges 2026-27](https://skywise.caa.co.uk/alerts/caa-schemes-of-charges-2026-27/), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [CAA: Register or apply for a service](https://www.caa.co.uk/drones/register-or-apply-for-a-service/), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [CAA: Renew and manage your registration](https://www.caa.co.uk/drones/open-category/getting-started-with-drones-and-model-aircraft/renew-and-manage-your-registration/), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [CAA: Drone and Model Aircraft Registration and Education Service](https://register-drones.caa.co.uk/), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [skywise.caa.co.uk](https://skywise.caa.co.uk/alerts/caa-schemes-of-charges-2026-27/), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page

## Methodology

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.

## Sources

- [CAA: Scheme of Charges - RPAS (2026/27)](https://www.caa.co.uk/publication/download/27251) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [CAA: Scheme of Charges (General Aviation)](https://www.caa.co.uk/publication/download/20223) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [CAA: CAP3184, Statutory Charges FY2026/27 consultation](https://www.caa.co.uk/publication/download/26252) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [CAA: UK Civil Aviation Authority launches consultation on charges for 2026/27](https://www.caa.co.uk/newsroom/news/uk-civil-aviation-authority-launches-consultation-on-charges-for-202627/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [CAA: Statutory Charges Consultation 2026-27 (Citizen Space)](https://consultations.caa.co.uk/finance/caa-statutory-charges-consultation-26-27/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [CAA Skywise: CAA Schemes of Charges 2026-27](https://skywise.caa.co.uk/alerts/caa-schemes-of-charges-2026-27/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [CAA: Register or apply for a service](https://www.caa.co.uk/drones/register-or-apply-for-a-service/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [CAA: Renew and manage your registration](https://www.caa.co.uk/drones/open-category/getting-started-with-drones-and-model-aircraft/renew-and-manage-your-registration/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [CAA: Drone and Model Aircraft Registration and Education Service](https://register-drones.caa.co.uk/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ARPAS-UK: CAA announce 2026-27 Scheme of Charges](https://arpas.uk/caa-announce-2026-27-scheme-of-charges/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Unmanned Support: 2026-27 Scheme of Charges consultation](https://www.unmannedsupport.co.uk/2026-27-scheme-of-charges-consultation/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [skywise.caa.co.uk](https://skywise.caa.co.uk/alerts/caa-schemes-of-charges-2026-27/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

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- The UK Drone Fees And Charges carries 4 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 12.34 to 524 GBP, read 12 September 2026.
- 2 of the 9 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 12 September 2026.

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