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AIRCRAFT: GENERAL - Camouflage (Code 5/8): Camouflage paints: trials of colours on...

Catalogue reference: AVIA 15/1153

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This record is about the AIRCRAFT: GENERAL - Camouflage (Code 5/8): Camouflage paints: trials of colours on... dating from 1941 in the series Ministry of Aircraft Production and predecessor and successors: Registered Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
AVIA 15/1153
Date
1941
Description

AIRCRAFT: GENERAL - Camouflage (Code 5/8): Camouflage paints: trials of colours on under-side of aircraft at high altitude. Please note: in January 2018 only one sample was noted as being present within this document – ‘DEEP sky’. A further two samples were matched to this file in September 2019, however further samples may still remain missing

Note
An envelope containing two Colour Plates – Special blue and Special pink is a former stray, put in place September 2019.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
SB 17976
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
Air transport
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2484308/

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Ministry of Aircraft Production and predecessor and successors: Registered Files

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