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Series contains documents related to the Air Force Headquarters during 1945 to 1965. Also includes files regarding No. 9 Transport Group and No. 168 (Transport) Squadron. There are 2 subseries:

1. Air Force Headquarters
2. No. 9 (Transport) Group

Subseries consists of documents related to the Air Force Headquarters. Includes correspondence, personnel establishments, quarterly summary of aircraft additions, aircraft accidents statistics, telephone directories and various other documents. Some of the major subjects include: personnel management; equipment and supplies; and aircraft accidents. The subseries is arranged in numerical order by the Kardex reference number.

Fonds consists of seven series of Air Force Headquarters files pertaining to Operations by the RCAF for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Mobile Striking Force, Air Defence planning, Air Council meetings, and policy and outline of RCAF Target Force during the 1950s. Files mainly include various correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, minutes of meetings, operation orders, and many other various documents. The seven series are as follows: Fonds is comprised of the following series:
I. Operations by the RCAF for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (1 Dec 1922 - 21 Sep 1939)
II. Planning: Mobile Striking Force (19 Jan 1948 - 6 Jan 1956)
III. Planning: Air Defence (3 Apr 1933 - 21 Aug 1953)
IV. Conferences, Conventions and Meetings - Air Council Meetings (1938-1964)
V. Mobile Striking Force (19 Aug 1949 - 26 Feb 1959)
VI. Policy and outline of RCAF Target Force during the 1950s (1950 - 1952)
VII. General reference files (1918-1945)
VIII. Organization and Establishments (1918-1964)
IX. Canada's National Effort - Armed Forces in the Early Stages of Major War (1939-1940)

Series consist primarily of press releases from Air Force Headquarters from 1939 to 1964. The first 46 folders are comprised of press releases of various subjects pertaining to the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1939 to 1964. Three other folders contain "Home Town" press releases from 1955-1958 and 1962-1963, dealing primarily with individual promotions and appointments. Other materials include speeches and liaison bulletins from 1959, a Press Release series from 1964 and "News and Views" from 1958 to 1960. "News and Views" was a digest prepared by Public Affairs from various printed sources pertaining to topics in aviation and defence.

Series consist primarily of press releases from Air Force Overseas Headquarters from 1941 to 1946. Volumes 1 through 115 consist of miscellaneous press releases ordered chronologically. Content of these releases include interviews with airmen, reports of brave fighting overseas, commendation announcements, as well as brief biographical sketches. Volumes 116 and 117 are extracts of the Overseas Headquarter Diary consisting of indexes of the press releases. Finally, volumes 118 through 120 concern Second World War RCAF operations in South East Asia, Iceland, and the Middle East.

Series consists of 9 files regarding the Royal Canadian Air Force Historical Section during 1945 to 1965. Includes historical accounts, sketch histories, monthly reports, correspondence and a list. The major subjects covered include: short historical accounts of RCAF Auxiliary and other units; the evolution of the RCAF ensign; reports of Air Historian; monthly activities resumes of RCAF Overseas, Operation Eclipse; aircraft accidents and list of Canadian pilots in Battle of Britain. The series is arranged in numerical order by the Kardex reference number.

Series consists of 7 files regarding Maintenance Command and Air Materiel Command during 1946 to 1965. Includes personnel establishments, photographs, guest book an annual report and other documents. The major subjects covered include: personnel management, organization and public relations. The series is arranged by unit and then in numerical order by the Kardex reference number.

Fonds consists of 2 registers of single-engine and twin-engine aircraft during the 1950s. The registers includes the aircraft name and serial number.

Fonds consists of a Joint-Service Manual of evasion and escape. The Manual was prepared as a guide to personnel of all three services to assist them in determining their action and conduct should they be forced to evade or to have the misfortune to be captured. The manual includes Volume 1 (chapters 1-14; 8 and 13 are missing). Also includes issues of Evasion and Escape monthly bulletins from 24 May 1949 to 24 February 1950 from Directorate of Intelligence, Headquarters United States Air Force, Department of the Air Force of United States.

Fonds consists of seven documents: one book and six booklets. The book is entitled titled “Royal Air Force Manual of Army Co-Operation”, is a second edition, and is part of the Air Ministry’s “Air Publication” series [Air Publication 1176]. It deals principally with the work of army cooperation squadrons and kite balloons for 1932, but it also describes such reconnaissance duties as may be carried out by bomber squadrons. Five booklets are indexes to the Air Ministry Confidential Orders (AMCOs) for 1925-1945. They contain confidential records of the regulations and rules pertaining to the administration of the Air ministry at the time, including information on: nomenclature for equipment including aircraft, and radar stations; reclassification of publications; and regulations (2003/52). The final booklet concerns the heraldic insignia, namely badges and mottoes, used by squadrons within the Royal Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal New Zealand Air Force between 1936 and 1944. Along with a brief description of the badges, the reason for design, the motto and the authority that is associated with the unit, the report provides a detailed foreword discussing the symbolic importance of heraldry within the Armed Forces (75/512).

Subseries consists of minutes, agendas and related papers of Air Officers' Commanding Conferences from 1949 to 1964. This subseries does not include a subject index. Includes Files 2000 to 2011.

Fonds consists of material maintained by the Air Transport Board and pertaining to contracts regarding airlifts of supplies to Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line sites for the fiscal years 1958-1971. The files contain information on contracts established with such companies as: CP Air (President - Richard W. Ryan), Federal Electric Corporation, Maritime Central Airways, Northern Construction Co. and J.W. Stewart, Okanagan Helicopters, Pacific Western Airlines , Western Electric Company and Wheler Airlines. A small number of files pertain to airlift operations in Korea. The fonds also contains input from the Air Industries and Transport Association of Canada. Arranged according to a block numeric subject classification system employed by the Air Transport Board. The files have been renumbered.

The series consists of files related to No. 9 (Transport) Group / Air Transport Command and its components: No. 4 (Transport) Operational Training Unit, No. 408 (Reconnaissance) Squadron, No. 412 (Transport) Squadron, No. 426 (Transport) Squadron, No. 435 (Transport) Squadron, and No. 436 (Transport) Squadron. There are 7 subseries:

1. No. 9 (Transport) Group / Air Transport Command
2. No. 4 (Transport) Operational Training Unit
3. No. 408 (Reconnaissance) Squadron
4. No. 412 (Transport) Squadron
5. No. 426 (Transport) Squadron
6. No. 435 (Transport) Squadron, and
7. No. 436 (Transport) Squadron

Fonds consists of Canada’s National Search and Rescue (SAR) statistics from January 1, 1976 to December 31, 1987. The files document the search and rescue operations by case and contains information on the location, arrival time and departure, case number, squadron number, and the type of object and the owner of the object.

Fonds consists of 7 volumes prepared and compiled by the Airborne Section, Trials and Evaluation Establishment of Canadian Forces Base Rivers from 1965 to 1970. The volumes include trial reports (with in-flight procedures and checklists), photographs of parachutes and parachute drops. The fonds also includes a volume entitled "Duties of the Stick Commander."

Series consists of four volumes of Aircraft Book Serial Numbers. Each volume contains different aircraft types. Within each listing of aircraft type, the particulars of serial numbers of the aircraft are listed by date. The transfer and disposal of aircraft is also recorded.

Series consists of aircraft inventory cards dating from 1925 that were scanned and indexed on compact disks in a project managed by Isabel Campbell in 1996-1997. Each aircraft card may be accessed by aircraft type or by original serial number. The cards recorded such information as service entry date and place, engine type, major repairs and modifications, serial number changes, transfer orders and final disposition. The original inventory cards have been transferred to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. Enhancement and enlargement of the originals took place so that some illegible portions of the cards may now be read.

Series contains aircraft log sheets with information including type of aircraft flown, destination, number of hours per flight, the outcome of the flight and the aircrew. Series is arranged alphabetically according to aircraft.

Series contains aircrew records arranged in alphabetical order. Information includes name, rank, and service of airman, type of aircraft flown, departures and arrivals, and hours per flight.

Series contains aircrew records organized by category. Information includes name, rank, and service of airman, types of aircraft flown, flights, dates, hours per flight, departure and arrival.