Catalogue description Air Registration Board, and Civil Aviation Authority, Requirements Section: Files and Papers

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Reference: DR 15
Title: Air Registration Board, and Civil Aviation Authority, Requirements Section: Files and Papers
Description:

This series contains copies of British Civil Airworthiness Requirements, Transports Supersonique Standards and British Hovercraft Safety Requirements as well as papers on requirements policy and procedure.

Also included are specimens of Chief Technical Officer Walter Tye's original papers and calculations. These formed the basis for a certificate of airworthiness to be issued.
Date: 1937-1995
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Air Registration Board, 1937-1973

Civil Aviation Authority, Airworthiness Division, 1972-1985

Civil Aviation Authority, Airworthiness Division, Requirements Section, 1972-1985
Physical description: 184 files and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 1985 Civil Aviation Authority
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

All aircraft on the British Civil Register have to satisfy strict and comprehensive airworthiness requirements. These are drawn up by the Civil Aviation Authority's Airworthiness Division Requirements Section and its successor the Safety Regulation Group, in consultation with manufacturers and other interested parties. The requirements are formally embodied in British Civil Airworthiness Requirements (BCAR) and, for supersonic aircraft, in Transports Supersonique Standards (TSS).

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