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Ministry of Aviation: Aerodromes Management Division and Airports, London and Prestwick...

Catalogue reference: AVIA 118

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AVIA 118

Contains registered files of the Aerodromes Management Division and Airports (London Prestwick) Division, Branch relating to Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Prestwick airports and the development of additional international airports.The EK series...

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AVIA 118

Title
Ministry of Aviation: Aerodromes Management Division and Airports, London and Prestwick Division, Branch 2c: Registered Files (EK Series)
Date

1961-1968

Description

Contains registered files of the Aerodromes Management Division and Airports (London Prestwick) Division, Branch relating to Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Prestwick airports and the development of additional international airports.

The EK series includes papers re-registered from the FGS series.

Arrangement
Arrangement

Former reference by transfer.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

EK file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Board of Trade, Airports, London and Prestwick Division, Branch ALP 2, 1966-1970
  • Ministry of Aviation, Aerodromes Management Division, 1960-1963
  • Ministry of Aviation, Airports, London and Prestwick Division, Branch ALP 2, 1963-1966
Physical description

87 file(s)

Access conditions

Open

Immediate source of acquisition

1999-2014 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Custodial history

Transferred successively to the Department of Trade and Industry in 1970, Department of Trade in 1974, Department of Transport in 1976 and Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997.

Accruals

No future accruals are expected

Selection and destruction information

Policy and precedent files have been preserved.

Administrative / biographical background

The Aerodromes Management Division was created in 1960 in the Ministry of Aviation. In 1963 it was renamed Airports (London, Prestwick) Division and then comprised two branches: the ALP 1 branch, which used the EP file prefix, and the ALP 2 branch, which used the EK prefix files.The Division was responsible for the policy, development and management of the Group 1 airports of Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Prestwick, and for the development of additional international airport facilities (including a central heliport for London), In 1963, the Division conducted the public inquiry on the siting of the Third London Airport at Stansted. The Division and successors had a preparatory role in the legislation for the British Airports Authority, founded in 1965, and was involved in the general co-ordination of financial matters relating to airports.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2698/

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Ministry of Aviation: Aerodromes Management Division and Airports, London and Prestwick Division, Branch 2c: Registered Files (EK Series)