Series
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...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- AVIA 118
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Aviation: Aerodromes Management Division and Airports, London and Prestwick Division, Branch 2c: Registered Files (EK Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1961-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Former reference by transfer.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- EK file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- 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
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 87 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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1999-2014 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- 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.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals are expected
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Policy and precedent files have been preserved.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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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.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2698/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: AVIA
Records created or inherited by the Ministry of Aviation and successors, the Air...
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Ministry of Aviation: Aerodromes Management Division and Airports, London and Prestwick Division, Branch 2c: Registered Files (EK Series)