Ministry of Aviation and successors: Aviation Overseas Policy Division and successors:...

AVIA 120

1944-1993

This series contains policy and precedent records of the Aviation Policy Division and its successor bodies. Subjects include liaison with the International Civil Aviation Organisation, overseas civil aviation ground facilities in which the UK maintained an interest and papers of the Commonwealth Air Transport Council for which the Division formed the secretariat.

One file (AVIA 120/10) has been re-registered from the R series: BT 217

Arranged in previous reference order by transfer.

For early papers of the Air Overseas Policy Division see also records of the Air Service and International Relations Group, BT 245

EE file series

Public Record(s)

English

• Board of Trade, Aviation Overseas Policy Division, 1966-1968
• Board of Trade, Civil Aviation Division, 1967-1970
• Department of Trade and Industry, Civil Aviation Division, 1970-1974
• Department of Trade, Civil Aviation Divisions, 1974-1976
• Department of Trade, Civil Aviation International Relations Division, 1976-1983
• Department of Transport, International Aviation Division, 1983-1988
• Ministry of Aviation, Aviation Overseas Policy Division, 1959-1966

60 file(s)

Open unless otherwise stated

From 1999 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Topics

Air transport

Transferred to the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997

1959

Series is accruing.

Policy and precedent files have been preserved. Additionally, all papers relating to the Commonwealth Air Transport Council have been preserved.

The Aviation Overseas Policy Division (AOPD) was established in 1959 in the Ministry of Aviation. The Division initially retained its name when responsibility for civil aviation matters was transferred to the Board of Trade in the latter half of 1966, but from 1968, following a restructuring of the civil aviation side of the department, its functions were exercised by Civil Aviation Divisions 1, 2, and 3, and these divisions survived the Board's merger with the Ministry of Technology in 1970 to form the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). In 1974, when the DTI was split into the three Departments of Trade, Industry, and Prices and Consumer Protection, the divisions continued in existence as part of the Department of Trade, but in 1976 the work passed to that department's Civil Aviation International Relations Division. When civil aviation work was transferred to the Department of Transport in 1983, responsibility for the files passed to a new International Aviation Division, where it remained for the lifetime of the series.

AOPD was responsible for the formulation of UK policy concerning international scheduled air service agreements. It was also responsible for policy matters arising from its UK representation within the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO); and, more generally, on the provision of ground facilities overseas where the UK had an interest. The Secretariat for Commonwealth Air Transport Council (CATC) also consisted of AOPD staff.