New ICAO Regulations Will Make Private Aviation More Professional

Introduced in 1964, the Learjet 23, the world‟s first purpose-built private jet, was classed by aviation regulators under the category of General Aviation‟, with very few restrictions in the way it was operated.

The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), a specialist agency of the United Nations, came into existence in 1947 to promote the safe and efficient development of civil aviation globally. Its Standards and Recommended Practices are published in a series of Annexes to the Convention; for fixed-wing international general aviation aircraft, this is Annex 6 Part II, which sets safe operating practice criteria for all flying activity and is the standard which applies to fixed-wing aircraft on the Isle of Man register.