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AIR 66/464

Visit to Singapore, Cyprus, and Bahrain, 1968

This file contains correspondence relating to visits by an Army Airtransport Training and Development Centre (AATDC) team to Singapore, Cyprus and Bahrain.
FCO 8/541

Bahrain-Lod AFTN circuit, 1967-1968

This file relates to aeronautical communications in the Bahrain Flight Information Region (FIR) and contact with Israeli aircraft.
FCO 8/678

British Eagle airways trooping flights through Kuwait, 1967

This file contains correspondence relating to: Minute on the restoration of trooping flights from Akrotiri to Bombay and the Far East, following the closure of the route due to the clash between India and Pakistan in September 1965. The flights had previously been re-routed from Akrotiri to Kuwait to Ceylon during winter, and from Akrotiri to Abadan to Ceylon during summer, but the direct route is now open to Eagle Airways

FCO 8/677

UK commitment to 1970/1971, 1967-1968

This file contains correspondence concerning: Minutes of the 62nd meeting of the Planning Committee on defence expenditure studies for the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), relating to Cyprus, the Gulf, Sharjah and Kuwait Paper on 'The Kuwait Commitment in the Period to 1970-71' to be circulated at the meeting Telegram from Ambassador G N Jackson to M S Weir on the Kuwait commitment Letter from Jackson to T F Brenchley on HMG's commitment to the defence of Kuwait, including views of the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah, Prime Minister Sheikh Jabir Al Ahmad Al Sabah and Minist
FCO 8/672

Arms stockpile and their disposal, 1967-1968

This file contains correspondence relating to: Letter from A Ibbott to B J Whalley on the repurchase of Howitzer ammunition from Kuwait; a letter from Lieutenant Colonel R Wright of the Kuwait Liaison Team to the British Embassy Kuwait in response to certain Ministry of Defence queries about the Howitzer ammunition; a letter from Whalley to Ibbott on the Ministry of Defence's offer for the ammunition Letter from L M Bowen to Ibbott on the disposal of stores from the RAF armaments stockpile Kuwait; a telegram from Ambassador G G Arthur to the Foreign Office on a working agreement reache
FCO 8/664

Supply of aircraft and missiles, 1968

This file contains correspondence relating to: Letter from J F Mayne to A Ibbott on action being taken to provide the technical backing to support the Lightning programme of Kuwait Air Force (KAF), based on discussions with Wing Commander B R A Cox and British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) Letter from R B Lord of the Ministry of Defence to the Chief of the Military Affairs Office for the Kuwait Government Mohammad Khalaf providing the Ministry's estimates of the cost of ferrying the fourteen requested Lightning aircraft from the UK to Kuwait Assurance of the Kuwait Military Affairs Offi
FO 371/168723

Visit to UK by Sultan, 1963

This file relates to the visit of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman Saeed Bin Taimur to the UK.
FO 371/127005

Proposed visit of Sultan of Muscat to UK, 1957

This file contains correspondence relating to: Possibility of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman Saeed Bin Taimur being received by the Queen during his visit to the UK (1, 9-10, 16, 22) The Sultan's plans to travel first to Bahrain, Baghdad and Istanbul before continuing on to the UK (2) The Sultan's revised plan to travel from Muscat to Salalah and then directly to London, discussion of the dates of his trip and arrangements for accommodation and transport, some of which will be provided by the RAF (3-8, 10, 12-14, 16-17) Enquiry from Gerald de Gaury about the dates of the S