Ministry of Aviation
{{Short description|Defunct department of the United Kingdom government}}
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{{For|the 1918–1964 UK RAF ministry|Air Ministry}}
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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). [https://books.google.com/books?id=dIpPPshxj0sC&pg=PA40 Science, technology, and the British industrial "decline", 1870-1970]. Cambridge; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, p. 40. {{ISBN|978-0-521-57127-2}}. 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