Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 48853

Aerospace Industry: Small Businesses

Tabled: 29 April 2025
Answered: 7 May 2025

Question

Mr Mark Francois

ConservativeRayleigh and Wickford

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Civil Aviation Authority is taking to support small and medium-sized enterprises to test innovative aerospace technologies that require exemptions from standard Civil Aviation Authority boundarie

Answer

Mike Kane
The Department through its Future of Flight programme and support for Jet Zero technology is working with the CAA to enable testing of innovative aerospace technologies by mainly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This includes:Introducing a new “...

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