Catalogue description Records of the Royal Aircraft Factory and the Royal Aircraft Establishment (later the Royal Aerospace Establishment)

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Title: Records of the Royal Aircraft Factory and the Royal Aircraft Establishment (later the Royal Aerospace Establishment)
Description:

Records of the Royal Aircraft Factory and Royal Aircraft Establishment relating to the manufacture of military aircraft prior to 1925 and research into aircraft design.

They comprise flight log books, AVIA 1, reports, AVIA 6, registered files, AVIA 13 and aircraft, engine and equipment drawings from the establishment at Farnborough, AVIA 14 and registered files from the Aberporth establishment, AVIA 71
Date: 1908-1991
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Army Aircraft Factory, 1911-1912

Royal Aerospace Establishment, 1988-1991

Royal Aircraft Establishment, 1918-1988

Royal Aircraft Factory, 1912-1918
Physical description: 5 series
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1911 the Army Aircraft Factory was created. In 1912 it became the Royal Aircraft Factory. In 1917, as a result of new arrangements for aircraft supply and inspection, it was transferred to the Ministry of Munitions subsequently becoming the Royal Aircraft Establishment in 1918 and passing to the Air Ministry in January 1920.

In 1925 the manufacture of aircraft at the Royal Aircraft Establishment was discontinued and thereafter the Establishment's functions were confined to experiment and research; a camouflage department was established in 1937 and this passed successively to the Home Office and the Ministry of Home Security in 1939. Control of the establishment itself passed successively to the Ministry of Aircraft Production in 1940, the Ministry of Supply in 1946, the Ministry of Aviation in 1959 and the Ministry of Defence in 1964.

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