I'm sure the laws in the UK are a little different than here in the states but I was wondering how this this might relate to Airspace rights on private property. I there is some altitude that private airspace stops and public or government airspace begins. I'm wondering if in the US you found one of these things hovering at low altitude over your property if you could 'Shoot it Down' so to speak.
Here is a segment of Supreme Court commentary on Private airspace: 'Airspace rights are those rights one has to the air above the land he or she owns. As Justice Douglas noted in the Supreme Court's United States v. Causby opinion, common law from time immemorial had held that ownership 'extended to the periphery of the universe . . . But that doctrine has no place in the modern world.'
In the United States, the federal government has control over its airspace; each state has jurisdiction over its own respective airspace; and landowners enjoy airspace rights over their property. Though the landowner possesses airrights, federal law guarantees freedom of travel throughout the nation's airspace.
It does not follow, however, that the landowner has no rights where flyoversare concerned. If an aircraft generates excessive noise or flies over the landowner's airspace in an improper manner--say, strafing a farmer's barn--thenthe landowner certainly has legal recourse. Such violations of airspace rights constitute trespassing.'
