Catalogue description Air Registration Board and Civil Aviation Authority: Requirements Steering Committee: Minutes, Papers and Correspondence
Reference: | DR 19 |
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Title: | Air Registration Board and Civil Aviation Authority: Requirements Steering Committee: Minutes, Papers and Correspondence |
Description: |
This series contains agendas, minutes, papers and correspondence of the Requirements Steering Committee. The records relate to all aspects of the committee's responsibility to direct work on drafting and revising airworthiness requirements for civil aircraft on the British register. |
Date: | 1955-1979 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
Air Registration Board, Requirements Steering Committee, 1955-1972 Civil Aviation Authority, Requirements Steering Committee, 1972- |
Physical description: | 18 file(s) |
Access conditions: | Open |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1985 Civil Aviation Authority |
Accruals: | Series is accruing |
Administrative / biographical background: |
The Requirements Steering Committee was set up in 1955 under the auspices of the Air Registration Board. It had three main functions. Firstly, to steer requirements policy; deciding where effort was needed on particular requirements and balancing the general progress of the technical work. Secondly, an executive function, ensuring that decisions of the committee were reflected in the work of the board. Thirdly, a function of approval in clearing the paper work for the various co-ordinating committees and for inclusion in the British Civil Airworthiness Requirements. The committee continued when the Civil Aviation Authority's Airworthiness Division took over the functions of the Air Registration Board in 1972. In 1979 the committee was reconstituted with more formal terms of reference:
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