Catalogue description Air Registration Board, and Civil Aviation Authority, Airworthiness Division: Flight Test Reports

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Reference: DR 18
Title: Air Registration Board, and Civil Aviation Authority, Airworthiness Division: Flight Test Reports
Description:

This series contains reports on test flights of all types of civil aircraft flown in the United Kingdom.

DR 18/1 contains a chronological index of the reports.
Date: 1946-1982
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Air Registration Board, 1937-1973
Physical description: 82 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 1985 Civil Aviation Authority
Administrative / biographical background:

The flight testing of aircraft is carried out in accordance with the procedures set out in British Civil Airworthiness Requirements, Chapter A5-2 and covers the following:

  • Prototype aircraft of United Kingdom and foreign construction under investigation for the issue of a Certificate of Airworthiness;
  • Modifications to aircraft and Prototype (Modified) aircraft of United Kingdom and foreign construction under investigation for the issue of a Certificate of Airworthiness;
  • Series aircraft of United Kingdom and foreign construction, under investigation for the issue of a Certificate of Airworthiness;
  • Aircraft being flown on flight tests for continued airworthiness.

The tests are carried out by the Civil Aviation Authority's own test pilots or a Civil Aviation Authority approved test pilot. In all cases a Civil Aviation Authority flight test engineer is in attendance.

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