OBTAINING YOUR LICENCE

Thanks primarily to hard work by members of SERFS and other individuals throughout the UK you can now legally import Aerotech Single use and Reloadable Motors into the UK, up to and including "M" size motors.

HOW ?................

Like This:

1. Go to your local Police Station and ask for form COER/1, an application to acquire and keep explosives. (Then watch their reaction and leave hurriedly !)

2. Fill in the form (Just parts A, B, & D) and of course the common sense parts, name etc Q9 = "reload of toy propellant to power model rockets" Where = As and when models will be flown Q14 = No quantity is required in this section as the amounts are set by law. You may however wish to put "Reloads are manufactured from Ammonium Perchlorate and are classed under UN0349 & UN0351, which are UK 4.1 &1.4 respectively. Q17 ignore (Do not send anything to Merseyside as these licences have not existed for three years !)

3. Send the completed form to the Chief Constable of your local Police force, marked for the attention of the Explosives Liaison Officer (usually in the Firearms dept). No fee is payable for this licence, however the liaison officer may wish to visit your home to inspect or specify secure storage. (Mine asked for a lockable steel box bolted to the floor of the garage)

4. You may wish to include a covering letter and the following information may assist the Police: Further information on classification can be obtained from :

Mr J.Phillips H & SE, Room 615, Rose Court, 2, Southwark Bridge, London, SE1 9HS

5. We are assured that we may store up to 7Kg of propellant under "Mode B" storage and that there is currently a Health & Safety exemption certificate from having an alarm system fitted to your home.

6. Next go to the Trading Standards Dept of your local authority (Not your local council) and ask to register your premises for the storage of mixed explosives. This should currently cost you £10.20 for 12 months, your police authority may wish to see a copy of this certificate before issuing an explosives licence. Give them the same information you gave the police to assist them in identifying the substances. (Guidelines are available to local H&SE officers, from the address in London)Once again your registration is for the storage of "Mixed explosives under mode B storage conditions" (With alarm Exemption)

7. You may have to stress that these are NOT fireworks and you are not selling them to anyone else !

8. Once you have your certificate send a copy to the address in paragraph 4, in return you will receive an "Authority to Transport" (No Charge) this will then give you all the paperwork you require to "Legally" import Aerotech Single use and RMS motors into the UK.

9. And that's it ! We can then sell all Aerotech engines to you.