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Register a drone

Tell us about yourself and your drone. It takes about five minutes. You pay at the end.

Who are you?

Choose your registered agent

Visitors apply through a registered agent: a local person or company approved by the Authority who keeps your records, renews them before they run out, receives notices for you and pays the Authority's fees. Agents charge their own fee, shown below.

About you

A photo of your passport's photo page fills in the details below for you to check. PDF, PNG or JPG. Residents may use a driver's licence.

Lay the document flat, fill the frame, avoid glare.

As written in your passport.

You must be 13 or older.

With the country code, for example +12425551234.

Visitors use a passport.

Your drone

For example DJI, Autel, Parrot or Skydio.

Printed on the drone, or shown in its app.

The maximum take-off weight, from the maker's data sheet.

Remote ID sends the drone's serial number by radio while it flies.

Capital letters (not I or O) and digits. For example 15814K2B9: 4 characters for the maker, 1 character (1 to 9 or A to F) saying how many characters follow, then exactly that many.

Geofencing must be on to fly here.

Registration in your home country

Needed if your drone weighs more than 249 g. PDF, PNG or JPG, up to 2 MB.

Lay the document flat, fill the frame, avoid glare.

Where and when will you fly?

Usually your arrival date.

Fee

Reviewed within business days.

Adds a fee.

Warning

Providing false information to the Authority is an offence under the Civil Aviation Act 2021. The penalty is a fine of up to $5,000, imprisonment for up to 6 months, or both.

Submitting an application does not authorize any flight.