Ministry of Aviation and successors: Directorate of Control (Operations) Branches...

AVIA 108

1961-1968

This series contains registered files of the Directorate of Control (Operations), Branches 1-6, 14 and 15. The files concern these branches' responsibilities for medium term planning of operations and the implementation of air traffic control services in the United Kingdom; both civil and military. Some files from the ACNO series were re-registered into this series.

Former reference order by transfer

Files of the Electronic Research and Development (Civil Aviation) Branch are in

BT 332

CO file series

Public Record(s)

English

• Board of Trade, Directorate of Control (Operations), 1966-1970
• Department of Trade and Industry, Directorate of Control (Operations), 1970-1972
• Ministry of Aviation, Directorate of Control (Operations), 1962-1966

6 file(s)

Subject to 30 year closure

From 2000 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Topics

Air transport

Operations, battles and campaigns

Transferred to the Department of Trade in 1974, the Department of Transport in 1976 and the Department of the Environment, Transport, and the Regions in 1997.

Series ran 1962-1971

Series is accruing

Most policy files have been selected

The Directorate of Control (Operations) was set up in the Ministry of Aviation in December 1962 as part of the new National Air Traffic Control Services organisation. Its director was the senior military adviser on air traffic control to the Controller of the National Air Traffic Control Services.

In the latter half of 1966 the directorate was transferred to the Board of Trade, where it remained when that department merged with the Ministry of Technology in 1970 to form the Department of Trade and Industry. In 1972 its functions were transferred to the newly created Civil Aviation Authority.

The directorate was operative in the planning for navigation systems and facilities for United Kingdom controlled airspace and the North Atlantic control area, and for departmental aspects of military air traffic control operations and training.