Catalogue description Air Registration Board and Civil Aviation Authority: Airworthiness Requirements Co-ordinating Committee: Minutes, Papers and Correspondence

The Airworthiness Requirements Co-ordinating Committee was originally formed in 1945 under the auspices of the Air Registration Board and continued when the Civil Aviation Authority's Airworthiness Division took over the functions of the board in 1972. Its terms of reference are:

• to consider proposals for amendment of, and additions to, airworthiness requirements for British civil aeroplanes and, subject to the advice of the Technical Committee of the Airworthiness Requirements Board, to approve them for publication in British Civil Airworthiness Requirements;
• whenever considered appropriate, to recommend to the Civil Aviation Authority and to the Ministry of Defence (Procurement Executive) such action as appears necessary to co-ordinate the airworthiness standards specified for military transport aeroplanes developed under Ministry of Defence (Procurement Executive) contract and those specified in British Civil Airworthiness Requirements; and
• when required by the Civil Aviation Authority, to consider proposals for submissions to be made to the International Civil Aviation Organisation in regard to the airworthiness of aeroplanes.

In 1947 a Flight Requirements Sub-Committee was formed to consider replies received from the industry as a result of the circulation of draft flight requirements and to finalise requirements for submission to the main committee.

Members of the committee have included, at various times, representatives of the Ministry of Supply, Ministry of Aviation, Society of British Aircraft Constructors and various airlines, as well as Air Registration Board and Civil Aviation Authority staff.