CASA Aviation Ruling
See attached extract from CASA Aviation Ruling 3/2003
Ruling
6.Subject to this ruling a person may conduct a charitable operation without
holding an AOC.
7. A person wishing to rely on this ruling should make their own enquiries to ensure
that an entity is currently endorsed as a ‘deductible gift recipient’ for the purposes
of the definition of charitable entity (see definition in paragraph 13 below).
8. A charitable operation can make a profit where those profits are donated to the
charitable entity. It is acceptable for the operator to recoup the operator’s
genuine costs and to donate only the profits of the charitable operation.
9. Subject to this ruling, CASA is not concerned with the form of benefit conferred on
the charitable entity as a result of the charitable operation.
10. If a charitable operation is also conducted partly for a commercial purpose
prescribed by CAR 206 (ie the operation has more than 1 purpose), it must be
conducted under the authority of an AOC. This conclusion applies even if the
operation is conducted primarily as a charitable operation and the CAR 206
commercial purpose is only a subsidiary purpose.