Ministry of Aviation and successors: Aerodromes (General) Division and Civil Aviation...

AVIA 107

1957-1973

This series relates to the responsibilities of the Ministry of Aviation and successors for Group II aerodromes. Contained are files relating to Group II aerodromes in the UK, especially the cessation of government control of them.The files include a large batch of committee files concerned with the planning of helicopter stations in the London area, also files relating to Aldergrove Airport Belfast, one of the Group II aerodromes.

EQ file series

Public Record(s)

English

• Board of Trade, Civil Aviation Department, Aerodromes (General) Division
• Board of Trade, Civil Aviation Department, Civil Aviation Division 3, 1968-1970
• Department of Trade and Industry, Civil Aviation Division 3, 1970-1974
• Ministry of Aviation, Aerodromes (General) Division, 1960-1966

44 file(s)

Subject to 30 year closure

Topics

Air transport

1960

Policy and precedent files concerning the planning and development of aerodromes and airfields in the UK have been selected for permanent preservation. General administrative case files have been destroyed.

Aerodromes General Division was established in the Ministry of Aviation in 1960. It initially retained this name when civil aviation functions were transferred to the Board of Trade (later the Department of Trade and Industry) in the latter half of 1966, but in 1968, following a restructuring of the civil aviation side of the Department, its name was changed to Civil Aviation Division 3.

The Division as a whole was responsible for the planning and development of aerodromes in the UK, while GA 1 Branch was responsible for Group II aerodromes, the coordination of trading estimates and accounts of all groups, and Aerodromes Technical Directorate finance.