Singapore legislation
Regulation 13
of Air Navigation (96 — Aerial Activities and Dangerous Lights) Regulations 2025
Regulation 13
Display of lights and streamers
Subregulation 1
Any person who releases a free balloon that is equipped with a trailing antenna that requires a force of more than 230 newtons to break the trailing antenna at any point must ensure that coloured pennants or streamers are attached to the antenna at intervals of 15 metres or less.
Subregulation 2
Any person who releases one free balloon at night that, including any object attached to the free balloon, measures 2 metres or longer in any linear dimension, must display a steady red light that is —
of at least 5 candela and showing in all directions; and
suspended not less than 5 metres and not more than 10 metres below the basket or, if there is no basket, below the lowest part of the free balloon.
Subregulation 3
Any person who releases more than one free balloon at night, either released collectively or in a cluster such that the free balloons so released (called the firstmentioned cluster) may cluster with other free balloons (regardless of whether all the free balloons are released by the same person) resulting in a cluster that, including any object attached to any of the free balloons, measures 2 metres or longer in any linear dimension, must display a steady red light that is —
of at least 5 candela and showing in all directions; and
suspended not less than 5 metres and not more than 10 metres below the basket or, if there is no basket, below the lowest part of the firstmentioned cluster.
Subregulation 4
Any person who flies or operates a tethered balloon at a height exceeding 200 feet above mean sea level must —
if the person flies or operates the tethered balloon at night — ensure that lights are displayed in the following manner:
the following group of lights of at least 5 candela and showing in all directions:
one steady white light displayed not less than 5 metres and not more than 10 metres below the basket or, if there is no basket, below the lowest part of the tethered balloon;
a steady red light displayed 4 metres below the steady white light mentioned in sub‑paragraph (A);
on the mooring cable, at intervals of not more than 300 metres, with the first interval being not more than 300 metres from the group of lights mentioned in sub‑paragraph (i), groups of lights of the colour and power to be displayed in the relative position specified in that sub‑paragraph, and, if the lowest group of lights is obscured by cloud, an additional group to be displayed below the cloud base;
on the surface, a group of 3 flashing lights with the following specifications to be arranged in a horizontal plane at the apexes of a triangle that is approximately equilateral, with each side measuring at least 25 metres:
2 red lights to delimit one side of the triangle, which must be approximately at right angles to the horizontal projection of the mooring cable;
one green light placed such that the triangle formed by this green light and the 2 red lights mentioned in sub‑paragraph (A) encloses the object on the surface to which the tethered balloon is moored; and
if the person flies or operates the tethered balloon by day — ensure that tubular streamers are attached to the mooring cable of the tethered balloon at intervals of not more than 200 metres, with the first interval being not more than 200 metres from the basket or, if there is no basket, from the lowest part of the tethered balloon.
Subregulation 5
Any person who flies or operates a kite at a height exceeding 500 feet above mean sea level must —
if the person flies or operates the kite at night — ensure that lights are displayed in the following manner:
the following group of lights of at least 5 candela and showing in all directions:
one steady white light displayed not less than 5 metres and not more than 10 metres below the lowest part of the kite;
a steady red light displayed 4 metres below the steady white light mentioned in sub‑paragraph (A);
on the mooring cable, at intervals of not more than 300 metres, with the first interval being not more than 300 metres from the group of lights mentioned in sub‑paragraph (i), groups of lights of the colour and power to be displayed in the relative position specified in that sub‑paragraph and, if the lowest group of lights is obscured by cloud, an additional group to be displayed below the cloud base;
on the surface, a group of 3 flashing lights with the following specifications to be arranged in a horizontal plane at the apexes of a triangle that is approximately equilateral, with each side measuring at least 25 metres:
2 red lights to delimit one side of the triangle, which must be approximately at right angles to the horizontal projection of the mooring cable;
one green light placed such that the triangle formed by that green light and the 2 red lights mentioned in sub‑paragraph (A) encloses the object on the surface to which the kite is moored; and
if the person flies or operates the kite by day, ensure that —
tubular streamers are attached to the mooring cable of the kite at intervals of not more than 200 metres, with the first interval being not more than 200 metres from the lowest part of the kite; or
streamers are attached to the mooring cable of the kite at intervals of not more than 100 metres, with the first interval being not more than 100 metres from the lowest part of the kite.
Subregulation 6
For the purposes of this regulation —
any tubular streamer that is to be attached to the mooring cable of a tethered balloon or kite must be —
40 centimetres or more in diameter;
2 metres or more in length; and
marked with alternate bands of red and white that are 50 centimetres in width; and
any streamer that is to be attached to the mooring cable of a kite must be —
30 centimetres or more in width at its widest part;
80 centimetres or more in length; and
marked with alternate bands of red and white that are 10 centimetres in width.
Subregulation 7
Any person who fails to comply with any requirement in paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) or (6) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction —
for a first offence, to a fine not exceeding $20,000; and
for a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding $40,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 months or to both.