RAF Flight Authorisation Logbook

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

This is to be found on the TOCH forum.

RAF Flight Authorisation Logbook - Enemy Aircraft Servicing and Storage Unit

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-us/a...6-af8600eab186

My question is how does such document (s) come to be sold like this, why aren't they kept by the National Archives or RAF ?
Alex

[Franek Grabowski]

I cannot find it on TOCH.
Anyway, such documents were considered of no historical value and dumped after the war. Fortunately, this one was preserved.

[David Duxbury]

RAF Form 1575 (I THINK this is the correct number) may still be used in RAF (although if so, they will probably have been redesigned several times since its original conception, and may have been given a new catalogue number). So far as I know they were never known as log books - that would have been a completely different publication with another number, and more complex organisation altogether, with several major sections. The FAB's (Flight Authorisation Book) were much simpler documents by comparison. The RNZAF still uses Flight Authorisation Books, which are specifically intended to clearly show the officer authoring the flight in question, name of the pilot being authorised, and also (usually) lists the crew, plus expected duration of flight, and purpose of flight, as well as actual duration. Strangely, some of the RAF Flight Log Books I have seen do not necessarily list all flights separately and for training aircraft can just give monthly totals. Aircraft Engine Logbooks can also use this system, although test running and test flights may be shown separately.