The concept of international air law

of legal principles and norms that directly or indirectly regulate relations between states regarding the use of airspace and the organization of international air communications. International air services means air services carried out by aircraft for the public transport of passengers, mail or cargo over the territory of more than one state. An aircraft is an aircraft, lighter or heavier than air, which can stay in the atmosphere due to interaction with air.
Aircraft does not include: spacecraft, hovercraft, meteorological balloons and unmanned balloons.

at regulating air flights was adopted in 1784 by the authorities of Paris, which prohibited balloon flights without special permission from the police, in order to protect the life and health of people and private property from the negative consequences that could be caused by the fall of an air balloon. In turn, in 1784 in Russia, Catherine II issued a decree banning balloons from March 1 to December 1 because of the danger of fires. Acts of a similar content were also adopted in other states.

has full and exclusive sovereignty over the airspace above its territory, including the territorial seas. the principle of airspace sovereignty was unequivocally enshrined in the Paris Convention for the Regulation of Air Navigation of 1919, and subsequently in many other multilateral agreements. This principle is once again confirmed in the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation of 1944. Airspace is currently considered as a space located above the land and water territory of the state and sharing a legal regime with it. Thus, under the 1958 Geneva Convention on the High Seas, as well as under customary international law, the freedoms of the high seas apply to international air navigation as well as to international maritime navigation. In terms of height, airspace ends at an altitude of 100 km, outer space begins above.

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for Air Navigation, subordinate to the League of Nations, was created with headquarters in Paris. In 1937, during the Inter-American Technical Aviation Conference, a decision was made to establish the Permanent American Aviation Commission. Subsequently, as a result of the signing of the Chicago Convention of 1944, both commissions are replaced by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) formed in 1947. The Soviet Union joined in 1970, making ICAO a virtually universal organization.

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