This file was originally catalogued under more than one subject heading. Those headings, and details of this file, are as follows: AERODROMES: General (Code 4/2): Persian Gulf aerodromes: air agreements with Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat. COLONIAL AND FOREIGN (Code: 11/1): Persian Gulf aerodromes; Air agreements with Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat. ROUTES AND SERVICES: Foreign (Code 27/2): Persian Gulf aerodromes; air agreements with Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat

This file concerns the civil air agreements made between the UK and Bahrain, Kuwait and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. It contains correspondence and minute sheets relating to:

• Appointment of Imperial Airways as agents on behalf of HMG for managing and maintaining civil aerodromes at Bahrain and Kuwait
• Authorisations issued by the Rulers of Bahrain and Kuwait and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman for certain aircraft to operate in and over their territories
• Negotiation of the terms of the Muscat civil air agreement, including the air navigation regulations, the conditions governing the use of the Gwadur [Gwadar] aerodrome, the continuance of the existing service facilities for the RAF and a request from France for authorisation for the use of facilities at Gwadar by French military and civil aircraft
• Arrangements for the payments due to the Rulers of Bahrain and Kuwait and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman under the terms of their civil air agreements
• Question of the future of the maintenance of Gwadar aerodrome
• Question of the exemption from customs duty of petrol and oil imported into Muscat, Bahrain and Kuwait for the use of Imperial Airways
• Question of informing the Government of the Netherlands of the Bahrain civil air navigation regulations and of forwarding copies of the Muscat air navigation regulations to France and the Netherlands
• Quarterly statements of landings made at Bahrain and Kuwait from 1934-1935
• Question of the collection of landing fees at Kuwait, Bahrain and Gwadar
• Possible revision of the financial clauses of the Kuwait, Bahrain and Muscat civil air agreements