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Series
Air Ministry and Successors: Civil Aviation Accident Reports (C, W, and S Reports)...
Catalogue reference: AVIA 5
What's it about?
AVIA 5
Reports containing brief descriptions of accidents involving civil aircraft; details on the aircraft; names of owners, pilots and passengers, opinions as to the cause of the accidents; and recommendations regarding defective design, etc. Some of...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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AVIA 5
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Title (The name of the record)
- Air Ministry and Successors: Civil Aviation Accident Reports (C, W, and S Reports) and Technical Memoranda
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Date (When the record was created)
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1919-1976
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Description (What the record is about)
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Reports containing brief descriptions of accidents involving civil aircraft; details on the aircraft; names of owners, pilots and passengers, opinions as to the cause of the accidents; and recommendations regarding defective design, etc.
Some of the reports (in pieces 19-25, 27-36 and 39-40) contain photographs of the aircraft accidents, and some reports (in pieces 20-21, 25, 27 and 31) contain maps of the accident areas.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Chronological.
Reports 1919 to 1936 - were designated C (pieces 1-18);
Reports 1937 to 1949 - W (pieces 19-30); and
Reports 1950 to 1962 - S (pieces 30-41).
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Few of the investigation reports of accidents survive for the period between February to December 1944 although information may sometimes be found in the Air Ministry correspondence in AIR 2:
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Air Ministry, Accidents Branch, 1918-1945
- Board of Trade, Accidents Investigation Branch, 1967-1970
- Department of Trade and Industry, Accidents Investigation Branch, 1970-1974
- Department of Trade, Accidents Investigation Branch, 1974-1983
- Ministry of Aviation, Accidents Investigation Branch, 1959-1967
- Ministry of Civil Aviation, Accidents Investigation Branch, 1946-1953
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Accidents Investigation Branch, 1953-1959
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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45 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 1965 Air Ministry
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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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 Air Ministry was responsible for the investigation of air accidents between 1918 and 1945, when this responsibility was transferred to the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2585/
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