Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration


Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration was a Swedish government agency active between the years 1936 and 1968. The agency was disbanded and merge into the Defence Materiel Administration.

History

The Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration was established on 1 July 1936 with the task in technical and economic terms to exercise top management and oversight of the Swedish Air Force. The agency was first organized in the Materiel Department, Commissariat Department, Building Department and the Civil Office. In 1948 the Airfield Department became an own unit, and in 1952/1953 so did the Central Planning and the Personnel Office.
A reorganization on 1 July 1954 established, in addition to the Airfield Department and the Central Planning, the following units: Aircraft Department, Electro Department, Maintenance Department, Purchasing Department, Commissariat Bureau, Normaliebyrån, Administrative Office and the Material Inspection.
A special sub-unit within the Materiel Department for missiles, the Missile Defence Agency, became in 1954 Robotbyrån within the Air Force Materiel Administration, in 1963 renamed to the Missile Department . In 1960, the creation of the Director-General of Engineering of the Swedish Air Force, who took over, among others thing, the tasks of the Material Inspection. The Air Force Materiel Administration was merge on 1 July 1968 into the Defence Materiel Administration.

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