Overflights of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by RAF aircraft

This file concerns permission for UK aircraft to overfly the UAE. It contains correspondence on:

• A complaint from the UAE about an overflight on 31 January 1983 by a RAF C-130 en route to Colombo from Bahrain
• The question of whether an overflight and landing rights understanding from 1971 is still in force and the legal opinion of H G Hogger
• A letter from the President of the UAE Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan dated 2 December 1971 (in Arabic and English)
• The introduction of a system of notifying the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs of RAF overflights
• The special circumstances of Royal flights
• A diversion, following a refusal to allow overflight, of Ascot Flight 2570 on 15 October 1983.