Ministry of Aviation and Board of Trade: Aviation Safety and General Division and...

This series contains files relating to aviation safety created by the Aviation Safety and General Division (1959-1968) and the Directorate General of Safety and Operations (1968-1970). It also contains files covering safety matters and financial matters relating to air accidents and civil aviation licenses.

Some files originally carrying FAE, ARG and AOS prefixes were re-registered into the LR series.

For records of the Safety and General Group see BT 248

• Board of Trade, Aviation Safety and General Division, 1966-1968
• Board of Trade, Directorate General of Safety and Operations, 1968-1970
• Department of Trade and Industry, 1970-1974
• Ministry of Aviation, Aviation Safety and General Division, 1959-1966

From 1998 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Topics

Trade and commerce

Air transport

Operations, battles and campaigns

Aviation Safety and General Division (ASGD) was a component of the Ministry of Aviation and was created in 1959. Civil aviation became the responsibility of the Board of Trade in 1966 and the Division continued as an administrative body until 1968. After this date, the file series was continued by the Directorate General of Safety and Operations.

The LR prefix was created and used by the ASG 1 Branch of the ASGD. This branch was responsible for the preparation of ministerial briefs and the provision of information for answering parliamentary questions on air safety matters.