Catalogue description Ministry of Aviation: Aerodromes Management Division and Airports, London and Prestwick Division, Branch 2c: Registered Files (EK Series)

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Reference: AVIA 118
Title: Ministry of Aviation: Aerodromes Management Division and Airports, London and Prestwick Division, Branch 2c: Registered Files (EK Series)
Description:

Contains registered files of the Aerodromes Management Division and Airports (London Prestwick) Division, Branch relating to Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Prestwick airports and the development of additional international airports.

The EK series includes papers re-registered from the FGS series.
Date: 1961-1968
Arrangement:

Former reference by transfer.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: EK file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Trade, Airports, London and Prestwick Division, Branch ALP 2, 1966-1970

Ministry of Aviation, Aerodromes Management Division, 1960-1963

Ministry of Aviation, Airports, London and Prestwick Division, Branch ALP 2, 1963-1966
Physical description: 87 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

1999-2014 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Custodial history: Transferred successively to the Department of Trade and Industry in 1970, Department of Trade in 1974, Department of Transport in 1976 and Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997.
Selection and destruction information: Policy and precedent files have been preserved.
Accruals: No future accruals are expected
Administrative / biographical background:

The Aerodromes Management Division was created in 1960 in the Ministry of Aviation. In 1963 it was renamed Airports (London, Prestwick) Division and then comprised two branches: the ALP 1 branch, which used the EP file prefix, and the ALP 2 branch, which used the EK prefix files.The Division was responsible for the policy, development and management of the Group 1 airports of Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Prestwick, and for the development of additional international airport facilities (including a central heliport for London), In 1963, the Division conducted the public inquiry on the siting of the Third London Airport at Stansted. The Division and successors had a preparatory role in the legislation for the British Airports Authority, founded in 1965, and was involved in the general co-ordination of financial matters relating to airports.

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