Catalogue description Ministry of Aviation and successors: Directorate of Control (Operations) Branches 7,8 and 9: Registered Files (CN Series)

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Reference: AVIA 109
Title: Ministry of Aviation and successors: Directorate of Control (Operations) Branches 7,8 and 9: Registered Files (CN Series)
Description:

This series contains policy, precedent and procedural and legal files from Branches 7, 8 and 9 of the Directorate of Control (Operations). The subjects cover the functions of these departments which were the creation and amendment of air traffic control regulations, airspace use, the drafting of air miss reports, policy on dangerous flying areas, special flights, royal flights, meteorological procedures, search and rescue and the Aeronautical Information Service.

Common to many Ministry of Aviation file prefixes, "CN" was allocated as an arbitrary file series code which denotes no specific theme. Some records from the ACNO file series have been re-registered into this series.
Date: 1959-1972
Arrangement:

Arranged in former reference order by accession
Related material:

For the 8M file series see DR 87
Separated material:

CN files have been re-registered in a variety of Civil Aviation Authority file series (including: 8AP and 8N file series, which are not Public Record Office series at present); see:

DR 37

DR 39
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: CN file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and French
Creator:

Board of Trade, Directorate of Control (Operations), 1966-1970

Department of Trade and Industry, Directorate of Control (Operations), 1970-1972

Ministry of Aviation, Directorate of Control (Operations), 1962-1966
Physical description: 24 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 2000 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Custodial history: Transferred to the Department of Trade in 1974, the Department of Transport in 1984 and the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997.
Accumulation dates: 1962-1971
Selection and destruction information: Records preserved are mainly policy, precedent and procedural and legal files.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Directorate of Control (Operations) was set up in the Ministry of Aviation in December 1962 as part of the new National Air Traffic Control Services organisation. It was responsible for medium-term planning and implementation of air traffic control services in the United Kingdom, both civil and military, and its Director was the senior military adviser on air traffic control to the Controller of the National Air Traffic Control Services.

In the latter half of 1966 the directorate was transferred to the Board of Trade where it remained through the merger of that department with the Ministry of Technology in 1970 to form the Department of Trade and Industry. In 1972 its functions were transferred to the newly established Civil Aviation Authority.

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