The state agency Civil Aviation Agency (CAA) reviewed 123 administrative offence cases in 2025, which is 50 more than in 2024. Meanwhile, the State Police recorded 768 cases last year in which remote pilots failed to comply with requirements, more than twice as many as in the previous year, when the State Police identified 330 violations. At the same time, the number of drone operators has increased significantly in recent years. While at the end of 2024 there were 7,846 registered operators in…
The state agency Civil Aviation Agency (CAA) reviewed 123 administrative offence cases in 2025, which is 50 more than in 2024. Meanwhile, the State Police recorded 768 cases last year in which remote pilots failed to comply with requirements, more than twice as many as in the previous year, when the State Police identified 330 violations. At the same time, the number of drone operators has increased significantly in recent years. While at the end of 2024 there were 7,846 registered operators in Latvia, by the end of 2025 that number had risen to 11,242. The number of remote pilots exceeded 20,000 by the end of the previous year. The CAA notes that violations are most often committed by men aged 20 to 45, while since 2024 the number of…
