Catalogue description Department of Trade and Industry and successors: Civil Aviation Safety Adviser's Division and successors: Registered Files (AC Series)

These records detail the Department's advice on technical and operational matters pertaining to civil aviation safety.

The records are in former reference order reflecting their original administrative format.

See also LM 9

Board of Trade, Aviation Department, Safety and General Division, 1967-1970

Board of Trade, Aviation Safety and General Division, 1966-1968

Department of Trade and Industry, Civil Aviation Safety Adviser's Division, 1972-1974

Department of Trade, Civil Aviation Division 1, 1974-1976

Department of Trade, Civil Aviation Policy Division, 1976-1983

Ministry of Aviation, Aviation Safety and General Division, 1959-1966

From 2005 Department for Transport

The Civil Aviation Safety Adviser's Division was set up as a separate division in 1972 within the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). After the DTI was split in 1974, aviation safety became the responsibility of Civil Aviation Division 1, and later Branch 3 of the Civil Aviation Policy Division, where it remained until 1983 when aviation functions were taken over by the Department of Transport. From then until 1988, responsibility for this function rested with the Civil Aviation Policy Division 3. In 1988 responsibilities were split between advice on civil aviation safety (which remained with Division 3), and aviation security matters, which now fell to Division 4. Aviation security remained with the latter division until 1991 when it became the responsibility of the new Transport Security Division.