Catalogue description Air Registration Board, and Civil Aviation Authority, Safety Data and Analysis Unit: Accident Files

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Reference: DR 11
Title: Air Registration Board, and Civil Aviation Authority, Safety Data and Analysis Unit: Accident Files
Description:

This series contains records of the Air Registration Board and of the Civil Aviation Authority's Safety Data and Analysis Unit. The records consist of ACC files on action following Board of Trade Accidents Investigation Branch accident reports.

There are also some Board of Trade JH/A series and Civil Aviation Authority 10/C and 10/V series registered files on operational aspects of accidents.

Files in each of the two series contain papers on the same accidents.
Date: 1946-1985
Related material:

Records of the Board of Trade's Accidents Investigation Branch are in:

For accident reports see AVIA 5

BT 218

BT 219

BT 220
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Air Registration Board, 1937-1973

Civil Aviation Authority, Safety Data and Analysis Unit, 1981-1991
Physical description: 326 files and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1985 Civil Aviation Authority
Selection and destruction information: The files in this series have been selected as being representative of the work of the Unit and its predecessors and for being accidents of note, including those that led to significant changes in the safety aspects of civil aviation.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Safety Data and Analysis Unit forms part of the Civil Aviation Authority's Airworthiness Division. It is responsible for the co-ordination of follow-up action arising from accidents, including the preparation of Civil Aviation Authority responses to the Board of Trade's Accidents Investigation Branch accident reports.

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