Catalogue description Air Registration Board, and Civil Aviation Authority, Airworthiness Division and Safety Regulatory Group: Flight Manuals and Files

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Title: Air Registration Board, and Civil Aviation Authority, Airworthiness Division and Safety Regulatory Group: Flight Manuals and Files
Description:

This series contains British aircraft master manuals for a selection of civil aircraft types and files of the Civil Aviation Authority's Airworthiness Division on the airworthiness requirements of aircraft and necessary amendments to flight manuals.

Subjects covered include handling instructions for pilots; performance figures for operations in differing weather conditions, altitudes etc; regulations and limitations on airspeed, engines, loading, safety etc; and schedules of aircraft dimensions and weights.

The series also includes various papers on foreign aircraft flight manuals received by the CAA as part of their regular liaison with overseas aircraft manufacturers.
Date: 1946-1987
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Air Registration Board, 1937-1973

Civil Aviation Authority, Airworthiness Division, 1972-1985

Civil Aviation Authority, Safety Regulatory Group, 1985-
Physical description: 124 files and volumes
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

Civil Aviation Authority
Accruals: Following the development of OSP 26: The regulation of civil aviation 1972-2002, it has been decided that no further accruals into this series will be made.
Administrative / biographical background:

A flight manual is a document prescribed by the International Civil Aviation Authority and is intended primarily for use by the flight crew of an aircraft. The manual contains limitations, recommended procedures and information of a nature that adherence to it will enable the level of safety intended by the Airworthiness Requirements and the Air Navigation legislation to be regularly achieved.

Manuals for all types of aircraft are initiated by manufacturers and are approved, amended and, in some cases, published by the Civil Aviation Authority in accordance with requirements set out in Chapter A6-1 of the British Civil Airworthiness Requirements The type manual is modified, if necessary, for each individual aircraft.

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