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Introducing the
Shared Airspace Council

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The Shared Airspace Council (SAC) is a collective of airspace users and stakeholders working to shape the future of the UK’s airspace.
It was formed to provide a platform for issues surrounding the safe integration for all airspace users to be considered, discussed, and evidenced.

The Council participants represent the broadest spectrum of aviation and airspace knowledge, bringing experience, diversity and authority to the formulation of ideas, debate and outcomes.

Our aim is to promote the shared understanding and the development of safe routes of integration for all airusers through an evidence-based approach and the active engagement of all stakeholders.

Date of next meeting

15th January 2026

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General Aviation

The wide range of non-commercial carriers using the airspace, including light aircraft, gliders, parachutists and model aircraft users.

Commercial Aviation

The primary commercial users of higher-altitude airspace with instrument approaches and departures to and from airports.

Uncrewed Aircraft

New and existing drone operators, who currently fly their aircraft remotely, and in the future will start to operate fully automated, beyond visual line of sight.

Future Technologies

Operators who will be performing new types of technologies that could include Advanced Aerial Mobility (AAM) or Space Launches / stratospheric operations.

Working towards safe, integrated and inclusive airspace

The future of aviation and technology, its application and exploitation, and airspace use continues to evolve. The rate of change must be matched by the SAC participants to help define what good looks like.

Modernising airspace, which means considering route design, airspace allocation and new tools and technologies, can promote the safe and effective use of airspace whilst helping better support government, industry, communities, the individual and the environment too, enabling future growth.

Achieving inclusive airspace requires interactive dialogue, to allow industry – the actual users of the airspace – the freedom to co-create solutions that have been arrived at together. To do this requires data-rich evidence that all parties can agree has been sourced and analysed fairly.

Then, and only then, can progress be made.
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Aviation Capability Transformation Roadmap

One example of how the SAC works is in developing a roadmap which sets out possible steps towards achieving the goal of an integrated airspace.

The entire point and the reason for sharing is that this is still a work in progress but in the interests of transparency we present it here. We hope this will provide a vehicle for further debate to drive progress towards this goal.
Download the interactive presentation

Organisational Participants

As part of the journey to a better conversation, over 10+ meetings over the last three years of the Shared Airspace Council having been stood up, it has attempted to convene a number of regular participants, alongside the occasional guest speaker. The logos below are not endorsements of the SAC, but do reflect the breadth of the Shared Airspace Council participants and its attempts to engage at all levels of aviation.
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Latest Updates

EC CONOPS consultation

Aviation

The Civil Aviation Authority has released the CONOPS for Electronic Conspicuity (EC, https://consultations.caa.co.uk/safety-and-airspace-regulation-group/ec-conops/) marking a major milestone (with several more to come) in the journey towards airspace integration. The document has sparked informed debate amongst all of the airspace users participating in the Shared Airspace Council and will form part of the Deep Dive discussion, […]

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How drones can join the airspace

Aviation

Integration of all airspace users is (broadly, but not exclusively, think spacecraft!) the integration of drones. Below are the regulator’s publications on the two ways that drones can join the wider airspace and not just be constrained to ‘Visual Line of Sight’ eg. a cone of maximum 120m height, and 500m radius. 1: CAP3038: Delivering Scalable […]

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The UK government has just published its Review of the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)

Aviation

Of note, the Shared Airspace Council (SAC) provided upon request two of the SAC Executive as delegates, and as the aviation industry’s burgeoning representative body on the focussed purpose of the safe integration of all airspace. The SAC believe that it is appropriate, timely, and most of all useful to reflect on this key milestone. Aviation […]

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Shared Airspace Limited is a not-for-profit and Limited by Guarantee enterprise, resourced through funding successes and voluntary participant contributions.
Registered Company No: SC721517, Registered at: Campbell Cairns, Craigellachie, Aberlour, AB38 9SL.
Website by Example Marketing & Web Design