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Special Drawing Rights (SDR)SDR

The IMF's reserve unit used to state aviation liability minima. Reg (EC) 785/2004 requires 750,000 SDR (≈ €900,000) of cover for 20–25 kg MTOM aircraft.

Special Drawing Rights (SDR) are the International Monetary Fund's reserve unit, used in international aviation to state minimum liability insurance amounts. Regulation (EC) 785/2004 requires 750,000 SDR of liability cover for aircraft of 20–25 kg take-off mass — roughly €900,000, with the euro figure floating with the exchange rate.

For a hobby drone under 20 kg, the SDR figure matters only as background: the practical insurance minima are set by national — Latvian — rules, not by the European regulation's SDR thresholds.

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