Series
Admiralty: Director of the Department of Aircraft Equipment: Reports
Catalogue reference: ADM 325
What's it about?
ADM 325
Reports of the Director of the Department of Aircraft Equipment
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ADM 325
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty: Director of the Department of Aircraft Equipment: Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1957
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Description (What the record is about)
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Reports of the Director of the Department of Aircraft Equipment
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Board of Admiralty, Department of Aircraft Equipment, 1917-1971
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2004 Ministry of Defence
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Directorate of Air Equipment was created in 1917, under the Fifth Sea Lord, to administer aspects of the Royal Naval Air Service, but lapsed the following year with the creation of the Royal Air Force, when the Air Ministry took control of this and all other aspects of administration of naval aviation ashore. But it emerged again in 1939, as the Directorate of Naval Air Equipment (DNAE), when the post of Fifth Sea Lord was re-created to take command of naval aviation matters.
After the Second World War, DNAE was eventually subsumed into the DGA(N) (Director General Aircraft (Navy)) organisation under the Assistant Director (Material). DGA(N) itself was ultimately subsumed into the Ministry of Defence Procurement Executive and the original DNAE role dispersed among numerous aircraft project teams.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2033/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: ADM
Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
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Admiralty: Director of the Department of Aircraft Equipment: Reports