Border Force & Special Branch

The General Aviation (Flight Information, Persons on Board and Civil Penalties) Regulations 2024 (‘the 2024 regulations’)

The 2024 regulations apply to all General Aviation aircraft making international flights expecting to arrive in and depart from the UK (including within the Common Travel Area,: Ireland, Great Britain, Isle of Man, Channel Islands).

International GA flights arriving in or departing from the UK are required to be submit information online about the flight and persons on board (both passengers and crew), no earlier than 48 hours and no later than 2 hours prior to the expected time of departure.

General Aviation Reports emailed directly to Border Force will NO longer be compliant and will not be accepted.

Submit a GAR (SGAR)

The relevant information can be provided online using the Government’s free-to-use ‘sGAR’ webservice.

Submit a General Aviation Report (sGAR) service is a free to use UK Government digital service, available to all pilots, operators, fixed base operators and aircraft owners to submit GAR API in accordance with the General Aviation (Persons on Board, Flight Information and Civil Penalties) Regulations 2024 (“the 2024 Regulations”).

GARs can be completed by visiting www.GOV.UK/submit-gar . The SGAR service enables users too,

Register online for fast and easy GAR submission,

It’s free to use and designed for the whole GA community, including Operator and FBO operations,

No faxing or emailing required in line with GA Regulations,

Only need to submit a GAR once for both Border Force and Police,

E-Visa message responses in line with Universal Permission to Travel (UPT) requirements included on the platform.

The platform has additional benefits for Carriers, Operators and FBOs including,

Users will be able to upload supporting documents, to help with travelling through the UK Border e.g. remote clearance forms,

All GARs can be managed from a single platform that you can create just for your organisation/base with access for all your operational staff,

The ability to save aircraft and person details for customers, crew, and aircrafts, making submitting future GARs even quicker,

The ability to submit data by just attaching a completed GAR received,

Carriers, Operators and FBOs can create draft GARs for future travel and complete when all details are known/confirmed,

Upon GAR submission, users will receive a ‘submission receipt’.

You may also use third party applications which have secure links to Home Office systems for the transmission of this information, see Annex G” (below)

This means that GAR forms submitted through SkyDemon should now be seamlessly accepted. (Ref Appendix G to General Aviation Report Guidance 2024) general-aviation-report-guidance-accessible)

Annex G: 3rd party applications with secure links to Home Office systems

EU (also known as CloudAviation www.gendec.eu)

OnlineGAR (onlinegar.com) This third party application has collaborated to also send through GAR data received from SkyDemon (www.skydemon.aero)

RocketRoute (rocketroute.com)

If you are unable to submit a GAR using the sGAR service, you may also complete and submit a GAR by emailing it in Excel format to the National Co-ordination Unit (NCU): ncu@hmrc.gov.uk.

Additional information about submitting a GAR can also be found in the General Aviation Guidance

Civil Penalties Border Force will be operating a civil penalty regime that will underpin the 2024 regulations. Failing to comply with the 2024 regulations may result in a civil penalty of up to £10,000 per breach. Complete guidance on the civil penalty regime will be available on gov.uk in due course.

Contact Detail's:

Heathrow Small Ports Team

Email: HeathrowSmallports@homeoffice.gov.uk

Phone: 01252 526182