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

AVIA 109

1959-1972

This series contains policy, precedent and procedural and legal files from Branches 7, 8 and 9 of the Directorate of Control (Operations). The subjects cover the functions of these departments which were the creation and amendment of air traffic control regulations, airspace use, the drafting of air miss reports, policy on dangerous flying areas, special flights, royal flights, meteorological procedures, search and rescue and the Aeronautical Information Service.

Common to many Ministry of Aviation file prefixes, "CN" was allocated as an arbitrary file series code which denotes no specific theme. Some records from the ACNO file series have been re-registered into this series.

Arranged in former reference order by accession

For the 8M file series see DR 87

CN files have been re-registered in a variety of Civil Aviation Authority file series (including: 8AP and 8N file series, which are not Public Record Office series at present); see:

DR 37

DR 39

CN file series

Public Record(s)

English and French

• 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

24 file(s)

Open

In 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 1984 and the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997.

1962-1971

Series is accruing

Records preserved are mainly policy, precedent and procedural and legal files.

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. It was responsible for medium-term planning and implementation of air traffic control services in the United Kingdom, both civil and military, and 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 through the merger of that department with the Ministry of Technology in 1970 to form the Department of Trade and Industry. In 1972 its functions were transferred to the newly established Civil Aviation Authority.