Catalogue description Civil Aviation Authority and predecessors: Central Library and predecessors: Miscellaneous Reports and Handbooks

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Reference: DR 9
Title: Civil Aviation Authority and predecessors: Central Library and predecessors: Miscellaneous Reports and Handbooks
Description:

This series contains material previously held by the Civil Aviation Authority Library, much of which was inherited from its predecessors, including the Air Registration Board and the Air Ministry.

The material concerns aircraft and engines specifications, instrumentation, aircraft inspections, airworthiness, survey flights and air traffic control operations. The series also contains many records of 'first flights'; outward and return diaries of journeys to new aerodromes in worldwide locations.

Date: 1919-1986
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 133 files, photographs and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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 accessions into this series will be made.

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