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Businesses (33)
- Air Transport & Travel Ltd
- Airspeed Ltd, aircraft constuctors Portsmouth, Hampshire
- Alvis Ltd, motor and aero-engine manufacturers Coventry, Warwickshire
- Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Co Ltd, aircraft manufacturers Brough, Yorkshire
- Blackburn Aircraft Ltd, aircraft manufacturers Brough, Yorkshire
- Bristol Aeroplane Co Ltd, aircraft manufacturers Bristol, Gloucestershire
- De Havilland Aircraft Co Ltd, aircraft manufacturers Hatfield, Hertfordshire;Broughton, Flintshire
- Fairey Aviation Co Ltd, aircraft manufacturers Hayes, Middlesex;Hamble, Hampshire;Heaton Chapel, Lancashire
- Fairey Hydraulics Ltd, manufacturers of hydraulic power control and filters for aircraft Heston, Middlesex
- Folland Aircraft Ltd, aircraft manufacturers Hamble, Hampshire
- Gloster Aircraft Co Ltd, aircraft manufacturers Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
- Gloster Coach & Sheet Metal Co Ltd
- Grahame-White Co Ltd, aircraft, motor car and furniture manufacturers Hendon, Middlesex
- Handley Page Ltd, aircraft manufacturers Cricklewood, Middlesex;Radlett, Hertfordshire
- Hawker Aircraft Ltd, aircraft manufacturers Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey
- Hawker Sanders Ltd, aircraft manufacturers
- Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Co, aircraft builders London
- Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd, aircraft manufacturers London
- HG Hawker Engineering Co, aircraft manufacturers Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey
- Hobbs Transmission Ltd, precision engineers and transmission gear specialists Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
- Ivor Power Speciality Co Ltd, boiler fitting manufacturers Kings Langley, Hertfordshire
- Nieuport & General Aircraft Co Cricklewood, Middlesex
- North Sea Aerial & General Transport Ltd, airline Brough, Yorkshire
- Short Brothers plc, aircraft manufacturers Belfast, County Antrim;London
- Sir WG Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd, aircraft builders Coventry, Warwickshire
- Sopwith Aviation Co Ltd, aircraft manufacturers Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey
- Sopwith Engineering Co, aircraft manufacturers Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey
- Supermarine Aviation Works (Vickers) Ltd, aviation engineers Southampton, Hampshire
- Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd, aircraft and armaments manufacturers, shipbuilders and engineers London;Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire;Weybridge, Surrey
- Westland Aircraft Ltd, aircraft and helicopter manufacturers, Yeovil Yeovil, Somerset
- Whitworth Gloster Aircraft Ltd, aircraft manufacturers
- William Aitkenhead Ltd, agricultural implement manufacturers Oldham, Lancashire
- Yorkshire Electric Transformer Co Ltd, electrical equipment and transformer manufacturers Dewsbury, Yorkshire
Persons (133)
- Aldred, Eric, (d1944), Warrant Officer
- Archer, Robert Noel, (1922-2005), Wing Commander
- Atcherley, Sir Richard, (1904-1970), Knight, Air Marshal
- Bader, Douglas, (1910-1982), fighter pilot
- Bagient, May Dorothy, (b 1919), Women's Royal Air Force chief technician
- Beamish, Francis Victor, (1903-1942), Group Captain Raf
- Bird, Jean Lennox, (1912-1957), first woman pilot in the RAF
- Bird-Wilson, Harold Arthur Cooper, (1919-2000), Air Vice Marshall
- Boothby, Frederick Lewis Maitland, (1891-1940), aviation pioneer
- Boothby, James Robert, (1883-1915), Lieutenant Commander, RNVR Cupar, Fife;Gallipoli, Turkey;St Andrews, Fife;South Africa;India;Vancouver, British Columbia
- Boothman, Sir John Nelson, (1901-1957), Knight Air Chief Marshal
- Bottomley, Sir Norman Howard, (1891-1970), Knight, Air Chief Marshal
- Bourdillon, Robert Benedict, (1889-1971), pilot and scientist
- Bowen-Buscarlet, Sir Willett, (1898-1967), Knight Air Vice Marshal
- Bowyer, Chaz, (1927-2008), author and aviation historian
- Boyle, Sir Dermot Alexander, (1904-1993), Knight, Marshal of the Royal Air Force
- Brackley, Herbert George, (1894-1948), air transport pioneer
- Broad, Hubert S, (1897-1975), Captain Test Pilot
- Bromet, Sir Geoffrey Rhodes, (1891-1983), knight, air vice marshal
- Bruce, John McIntosh, (1923-2002), aviation historian and author
- Cameron, Neil, (1920-1985), Baron Cameron of Balhousie, Marshal of the Royal Air Force
- Chance, David Errol, (b1923), RAF officer
- Chapman, John, (fl 1917-1919), Second Lieutenant, pilot, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force
- Cobham, Sir Alan John, (1894-1973), Knight, aviator
- Cooper, Clifford Corry Francis, (1916-2004), RAF pilot and prisoner of war
- Cordes, James Lucas Brome Hope, (1895-?1980), Major, test pilot
- Courtney, Sir Christopher Lloyd, (1890-1976), Knight, Air Chief Marshal
- Cowie, George, (1899-1917), Royal Flying Corp officer
- Cox, Frederick William, (fl 1940-2005), Squadron Leader Royal Air Force
- Crew, Edward Dixon, (1917-2002), Air Vice Marshal
- Crofton, Richard Llewellyn, (fl1917-1925), Group Captain
- Cruickshank, John Alexander, (b1920), Flight Lieutenant, Royal Air Force, Victoria Cross
- Davidson, Sir Alexander Paul, (1894-1971), Knight Air Vice Marshal
- Davis, E J, (1929-1993), member of submarine unit
- Deere, Alan Christoper, (1917-1995), Air commodore
- Donohue, Pamela Florence, (fl 1953-1977), squadron leader, Women's Royal Air Force
- Dowding, Hugh Caswall Tremenheere, (1882-1970), 1st Baron Dowding, Air Chief Marshal
- Drozdowski, Jerzy, (1917-1991), Polish Flying Officer, Royal Air Force Poland
- Drozdowsky, Jerzy, (1917-1991), Polish Flying Officer, Royal Air Force
- Dusek, Petr, (1914-1991), Czech Flight Lieutenant, Royal Air Force
- Evill, Sir Douglas Claude Strathern, (1892-1971), Knight Air Chief Marshal
- Fairey, Sir Charles Richard, (1887-1956), Knight Aircraft Pioneer
- Fennessy, Sir Edward, (d 2009), Knight and radar pioneer
- Ferte, Philip Bennet Joubert de la, (1887-1965), Knight, Air Chief Marshal
- Fielden, Sir Edward Hedley, (b 1903), Knight Air Vice Marshal
- Foster, Sir Robert, (1898-1974), Knight, Air Chief Marshal
- Foxley-Norris, Christopher, (1917-2003), Air Chief Marshal
- Frere, Alexander Stewart, (1892-1984), President of Heinemann Publishers
- Furniss, Kevin Robert, (1898-1917), Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps
- Gething, Richard Templeton, (1911-2004), Air Commodore
- Gibson, Guy Penrose, (1918-1944), Wing Commander
- Giffard, Hardinge Goulburn, (1880-1943), 2nd Earl of Halsbury
- Gordon, Angus Caesar-, (1921-1990), Flight Lieutenant
- Gray, Gerald John, (1916-1997), Wing Commander
- Greenlaw, Robert Ritchie, (d 1943), Group Captain
- Halahan, Frederick Crosby, (d 1965), Air Vice Marshal
- Harris, Sir Arthur Travers, (1892-1984), 1st Baronet, Marshal, RAF
- Havilland, Sir Geoffrey de, (1882-1965), Knight, aeroplane designer
- Henderson, Sir David, (1862-1921), Knight Lieutenant General pioneer of military aviation
- Henshaw, Alexander Adolphus Dumfries, (1912-2007), racing and test pilot
- Hill, Sir Roderic Maxwell, (1894-1954), Knight Air Chief Marshal
- Hodges, Lewis MacDonald, (1918-2007), Air Chief Marshal Richmond, Surrey
- Hogan, Henry Algernon Vickers, (1909-1993), Air Vice Marshal
- Hogg, Rudolf Edward Trower, (1877-1955), Brigadier-General, Royal Flying Corps, Officer, Indian Army, RNAS, Gallipoli
- Hollinghurst, Sir Leslie Norman, (1895-1971), Knight Air Chief Marshal
- Hubbard, Kenneth Gilbert, (1920-2004), Wing Commander
- Insall, Algernon John, (b 1896), pilot and observer
- Johns, William Earl, (1893-1968), Aviator Journalist and Author
- Johnson, Amy, (1903-1941), aviator
- Jones, Sir Bennett Melvill, (1887-1975), Knight, aeronautical engineer Birkenhead, Cheshire;Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Jones, Sir John Whitworth, (1896-1981), Knight Air Chief Marshal
- Jones, Oscar Philip, (1898-1980), airline pilot
- Knight, Dame Laura, (1877-1970), painter
- Larrard, John Henry Broughton, (b 1895), Aviation Engineer
- Lawrence, Thomas Edward, (1888-1935), intelligence officer and author
- Laws, Frederick Charles Victor, (1887-1975), Group Captain pioneer of aerial photography
- Leigh-Mallory, Sir Trafford Leigh, (1892-1944), Knight, Air Chief Marshal
- Lloyd, Sir Hugh Pughe, (1894-1981), Knight, Air Chief Marshal
- Lyne, Michael Dillon, (1919-1997), Air Vice Marshal, Royal Air Force
- MacDonald, John Charles, (1910-2000), Air Commodore
- Macmillan, Norman, (1892-1976), Aviator and Author
- Mansbridge, Leslie Morton, (1897-1992), fighter pilot
- Martin, Sir Harold Brownlow Morgan, (1918-1988), Knight, Air Marshal Australia
- Masefield, Sir Peter Gordon, (b 1914), aviation journalist, civil servant and businessman
- Masterman, Edward Alexander Dimsdale, (1880-1957), Air Commodore
- Mccrindle, John Ronald, (1894-1977), Managing Director of British Airways Ltd
- McCudden, James Thomas Byford, (1895-1918), Major Aviator
- McMurtrie, Richard Angus, (1909-1994), Group Captain
- Michie, Reginald Ernest, (1923-1999), Squadron Leader
- Mollison, James Allen, (1905-1959)
- Moore-Brabazon, John Theodore Cuthbert, (1884-1964), 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, politician
- Newall, Sir Cyril Louis Norton, (1886-1963), Knight Marshal of the Royal Air Force
- Nicolson, Eric James Brindley, (1917-1945), Wing Commander
- Page, Alan Geoffrey, (1920-2000), Wing Commander
- Page, Sir Frederick Handley, (1885-1962), Knight Aircraft Manufacturer
- Parker, John Lankester, (1896-1965), chief test pilot for Short Brothers
- Parkin, Eric, (1917-2008), Flight Lieutenant, Royal Air Force
- Pattinson, Sir Lawrence Arthur, (1890-1955), Knight, Air Marshal London;India;China
- Paxton, Sir Anthony Lauderdale, (1896-1957), Knight Air Vice Marshal
- Peirse, Sir Richard Edmund Charles, (1892-1970), Knight Air Chief Marshal
- Piper, Harold Lord, (1899-1965), Flying Officer
- Pirie, Gordon Hamish Martin, (1918-2003), Group Captain
- Pond, Arthur, (1914-2003), Squadron Leader, Royal Air Force
- Powell, Harry Proctor, (1911-1986), Wing Commander
- Pretty, Sir Walter Philip John, (1909-1975), Knight Air Marshal
- Richards, Denis George, (1910-2004), Author, historian
- Richardson, Leonard Atwood, (1894-1968), Lieutentant, Royal Flying Corp and Royal Air Force Toronto, Ontario
- Robb, Sir James Milne, (1895-1968), Knight Air Chief Marshal
- Rymills, Frank Ernest, (1920-1997), Squadron Leader
- Salmond, Sir John Maitland, (1881-1968), Knight, Marshal of the Royal Air Force
- Saundby, Sir Robert Henry Magnus Spencer, (1896-1971), Knight Air Marshal
- Schofield, Ernest, (fl 1942-1996), pilot officer
- Seabourne, Eric William, (1918-2005), Squadron Leader
- Searby, John Henry, (1918-2005), Air Commodore
- Seton, Lady Alice, (1904-1995), group officer, Women's Auxiliary Air Force
- Smith, Constance Babington, (1912-2000), author
- Sorley, Sir Ralph Squire, (1898-1974), Knight, Air Marshal
- Souza, Ivo de, (1918-1997), Jamaican diplomat and wartime pilot
- Sowrey, William, (1894-1968), Air Commodore
- Stewart, Oliver, (1895-1976), Pilot Author and Broadcaster
- Stidolph, Neville Edsell, (1911-2005), Wing Commander, general surgeon and urologist South Africa
- Straight, Whitney Willard, (1912-1979), Air Commodore
- Sueter, Sir Murray, (1872-1960), Knight Rear Admiral
- Tedder, Arthur William, (1890-1967), 1st Baron Tedder, Marshal of the Royal Air Force
- Thomas, Meredith, (1892-1984), Air Vice-Marshal
- Tiltman, Alfred Hessell, (1887-1975), design engineer
- Trenchard, Hugh Montague, (1873-1956), 1st Viscount Trenchard, Marshal of the Royal Air Force
- Wakefield, Charles Cheers, (1859-1941), Viscount Wakefield, businessman
- Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville, (1887-1979), Knight, aeronautical designer and engineer Ripley, Derbyshire
- Walmsley, Sir Hugh Sydney Porter, (1898-1985), Air Marshal
- Watson-Watt, Katherine, (1899-1971), Air Chief Commandant
- Whittle, Sir Frank, (1907-1996), Knight, aeronautical engineer and inventor of the jet engine
- Williams, Sir Thomas Melling, (1899-1956), Knight, Air Marshal
Diaries (11)
- Baker, Leonard William, (fl 1914-1919), Captain
- Barlow, Raymond Keith, (d 1914), Air Force Mechanic
- Coates, Bertie Clarence, (fl 1900-2000), Squadron Leader
- Coates, Frederick Boris, (1937-1973), Squadron Leader
- Garbett, Hubert Neville, (fl 1937-1959), Wing Commander
- Lott, William, (fl 1945-2007), Squadron Leader
- Reynolds, Anthony Oliver, Flight Lieutenant
- Reynolds, David R, Second Pilot
- Tennant, John Edward, Lieutenant Colonel
- Utteridge, Robert James, (fl 1900-2000), warrant officer
- Wood, Donald, (fl 1942-1974), Wing Commander
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (32)
- NRA 44836 Richard Llewelyn Roger Atcherley, Knight Air Marshall: papers
- NRA 42016 Constance Babington Smith, author: corresp and papers rel to her life of Amy Johnson
- NRA 44837 Jean Lennox Bird, first woman pilot in the RAF: papers
- NRA 44843 Sir Norman Howard Bottomley, Knight, Air Chief Marshal: papers
- NRA 44204 Captain Hubert S Broad, test pilot: papers
- NRA 44883 Buscarlet, Sir Willett Bowen- (1898-1967) Knight Air Vice Marshal - papers
- NRA 42017 Major James Lucas Brome Hope Cordes, test pilot: corresp and papers
- NRA 44885 Courtney, Sir Christopher Lloyd (1890-1976) Knight Air Chief Marshal
- NRA 36807 EJ Davis, aircraft designer: papers rel to Supermarine Aviation Works (Vickers) Ltd
- NRA 43129 Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding: corresp and papers
- NRA 44838 Sir Douglas Claude Strathorn Evill, Knight Air Chief Marshal, papers
- NRA 35063 Fairey Hydraulics Ltd, Heston
- NRA 44203 Air Chief Marshal Philip Bennet Joubert de la Ferte: corresp and papers
- NRA 44840 Christopher Neil Foxley-Norris, Air Chief Marshal: papers
- NRA 44842 Major Hardinge Goulburn Giffard, 2nd Earl of Halsbury: papers
- NRA 44884 Halahan, Frederick Crosby (d 1965) Air Vice Marshal - papers
- NRA 38344 Air Vice-Marshal Henry Algernon Vickers Hogan: papers
- NRA 42018 Captain Oscar Philip Jones, airline pilot: corresp and papers
- NRA 36809 John Henry Broughton Larrard, aviation engineer: papers
- NRA 44841 Leslie Morton Mansbridge, fighter pilot: papers
- NRA 44839 Edward Alexander Dimsdale Masterman, Air Commodore: papers
- NRA 44205 Marshal of the Royal Air Force Cyril Louis Norton Newall, 1st Baron Newall: papers
- NRA 44202 Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Edmund Charles Peirse: corresp and papers
- NRA 44877 Royal Aero Club: papers and photographs link to online catalogue
- NRA 40598 Royal Air Force Museum, Department of Research and Information Services: misc accessions
- NRA 45071 Royal Air Force Museum: records rel to the British aviation industry
- NRA 36808 Short Bros Ltd, aircraft mfrs, Belfast
- NRA 44879 Trenchard, Hugh Montague (1873-1956) 1st Viscount Trenchard - corresp
- NRA 44880 Trenchard, Hugh Montague (1873-1956) 1st Viscount Trenchard - papers
- NRA 44881 Trenchard, Hugh Montague (1873-1956) 1st Viscount Trenchard - papers
- NRA 44882 Trenchard, Hugh Montague (1873-1956) 1st Viscount Trenchard - papers
- NRA 42019 Air Marshal Sir Hugh Sydney Porter Walmsley: corresp and papers
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