The Ministry of Aviation was a department of the United Kingdom government established in 1959. Its responsibilities included the regulation of civil aviation and the supply of military aircraft, which it took on from the Ministry of Supply.
In 1967, the Ministry of Aviation merged into the Ministry of TechnologyEdgerton, David (1996). Science, technology, and the British industrial "decline", 1870-1970. Cambridge; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, p. 40. . which took on the supply of military aircraft, while regulatory responsibilities were switched to the Board of Trade.
Ministers of Aviation 14 October 1959: Duncan SandysDavid Butler and Gareth Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900-2000, Macmillan 2000, p. 27.Butler and Butler, p. 58. 27 July 1960: Peter Thorneycroft 16 July 1962: Julian Amery 18 October 1964: Roy JenkinsButler and Butler, p. 30. 23 December 1965: Frederick Mulley 7 January 1967 – 15 February 1967: John Stonehouse
Parliamentary Secretaries 22 October 1959: Geoffrey Rippon 9 October 1961: Montague Woodhouse 16 July 1962: Basil de Ferranti 3 December 1962: Neil Marten 20 October 1964: John Stonehouse 6 April 1966 – 7 January 1967: Julian Snow
Permanent Secretaries 1959: Sir William StrathButler and Butler, p. 301. 1960: Henry Hardman (knighted in 1962)Flight International, no. 2756, vol. 81, 4 January 1962, p. 2. 1963: Sir Richard Way 1966: Sir Richard Clarke 1966–7: Sir Ronald Melville
See also
Aviation in the United Kingdom
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