Catalogue description Ministry of Civil Aviation and successors: Navigational Services Group

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Reference: BT 249
Title: Ministry of Civil Aviation and successors: Navigational Services Group
Description:

Files of the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation and the Ministry of Aviation dealing with air navigation and air traffic control.

Also represented in this series are files of the Aeronautical Information Service and the Air Traffic Control Experimental Unit for which the Navigational Services Group was responsible, and which used the AIS and EU file series respectively.

The Civil Aviation Aerodromes Technical Directorate used the AAT file series, the Civil Aviation Control and Navigation Directorate the ACN, ACNA and ACNB series, the Aviation Control and Navigational Development and Planning Directorate the ACNDP series, and the Aviation Control and Navigation Operations Directorate the ACNO series.
Date: 1944-1969
Related material:

Files on the Aeronautical Information Service are in AVIA 75

For records of the Air Traffic Control Experiment Unit, later Air Traffic Control Evaluation Unit see DR 14
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Aviation, Aviation Navigational Services Division, 1959-1967

Ministry of Civil Aviation, Navigational Services Group, 1945-1953

Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Civil Aviation Department, Navigational Services Group, 1953-1959
Physical description: 131 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

The Navigational Services Group was formed to take responsibility for the operational standards of air traffic control systems and services, the operational standards of aerodromes and subjects allied to navigational safety such as maps and charts, meteorological information, telecommunications, aerodrome approach lighting etc. The Group comprised two directorates: Civil Aviation Control and Navigation Directorate and the Civil Aviation Aerodromes Technical Directorate.

This structure survived under the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, but upon the formation of the Ministry of Aviation these functions were split between the Aviation Control and Navigation Operations Directorate and the Aviation Control and Navigational Development and Planning Directorate.

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