Catalogue description Civil Aviation Authority, Directorate of Operations Planning and Development and predecessors: Reports and Papers

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Title: Civil Aviation Authority, Directorate of Operations Planning and Development and predecessors: Reports and Papers
Description:

The papers in this series are those of the Directorate of Operations Planning and Development of the Civil Aviation Authority and predecessors and are concerned with the development of guidance and regulations for the operations of civil aircraft.

Subjects covered include equipment and documentation, registration and marking, aircrew, flying in bad weather and procedures for take-off, approach and landing.
Date: 1956-1990
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Civil Aviation Authority, Directorate of Operations Planning and Development, 1972-

Ministry of Aviation, 1959-1967

Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, 1953-1959
Physical description: 59 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

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

The Directorate of Operations Planning and Development is a division of the Civil Aviation Authority's Directorate of Operations. It is responsible for the development of legislation and amendments concerning equipment and documentation, registration and marking, crew composition, operation of aircraft, and aircraft performance.

It also deals with the development of guidance and regulatory material on all-weather operations and of criteria for obstacle clearance surfaces and associated procedure for take-off, approach and landing.

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