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Air Ministry Biography Biography
The Air Ministry was created to oversee the formation of the Royal Air Force an amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. As well as overseeing and managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force it also issued specifications for aircraft to aircraft companies. The prototype aircraft would be tested by the Ministry who would then assigned it with a name.

Scope and Content
Air Ministry Certificate of Competency and Licence to Fly Private Flying Machines, issued to William Edwin Ogle-Skan, 1938.
Language
English
Archival history
Found in house next door to donor. Donated at the same time as object Y1986.541, but unrelated. Donated to the Manchester Air & Space Museum and later transferred to the Greater Manchester Museum of Science and Industry.
Level of description
ITEM
Repository name
Science and Industry Museum

Associated people and organisations

Ogle-Skan, William Edwin Biography Biography
British pilot born in 1913, known to have been active 1938-1939.

Subject
Civil aviation
Aeronautics
Conditions governing access
Open access.
Conditions governing Reproduction
Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions.