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Coll 5/1 ‘Persian Gulf Air Routes: Hasa Coast & Flying over Nejd territory — Saudi regulations for the landing of foreign aircraft’ [78r] (155/564)
The record is made up of 1 file (281 folios). It was created in 11 Feb 1931-3 Mar 1937. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Sir,
1 am directed to refer to the quest ion of the
use of the air route along the Haaa ooaat-lina outside
Saudi territorial waters t and to state that pending
agreement that may be made in the fhture with the Saudi
Government for the use of facilities on this coast-line,
the position of aircraft flying outside territorial limits
and forced to tahe refuge within those limits, or to fly
over or forced land on Saudi territory owing to weather or
meohanieal failure hue been under consideration by the
foreign Office.*
2. Consequent upon the review of this situation,
the foreign Office have requested that in all oases where
aircraft are forced to tafce shelter within Saudi
territorial waters or fly over or land on Saudi tsrritory
the matter will be reported Immediately to Hie Majesty^
Sabasey In Iraq to enable His Majesty's Legation at Jedda
to be informed without delay for the purpose of tendering
an apology before the Saudi authorities have time to lod^e
a protest.
3. I am to request that you will tabs all feaslbls
steps to reduce to a minimum all possibility of avoidable
trespass within Saudi territory. it might well be
claimed, for instance, by the Saudi authorities that air
craft forced to land within Saudi territory by sandstorms
or adverse weather should not have been despatched on the
route under conditions likely to Induce such trespass.
133 ^
73 December 1933,
fhe Air Officer Commanding,
Air Headquarters,
Iraq Command,
Hinaidi,
Iraq.
Ilf
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The file contains correspondence and papers related to negotiations between the British Government and the Government of Saudi Arabia for the establishment of emergency landing grounds along the Hasa Coast, and proposed arrangements for their maintenance. The intention was that these facilities would be used by aircraft of the Royal Air Force (RAF) or Imperial Airways in the event of an emergency. It further covers measures to be taken to prevent the intrusion of British aircraft into Saudi territory during the progress of negotiations.
Also briefly covered in the file is a visit by Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] to the Netherlands in 1935 (see folios 26-71) and the attitude of the Saudis to foreign aircraft flying over their territory (see folios 3-21).
The main correspondents are as follows: HM Minister at Jeddah (Sir Andrew Ryan), officials of the Foreign Office (mainly George William Rendel), and officials of the Air Ministry (mainly James Stirling Ross). The negotiations are primarily undertaken through Fuad Bey Hamza and Shaikh Yusuf Yasin.
Prior to 1932, Saudi Arabia was known as the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, and this is reflected in the file.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (281 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 282; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Bookmarks are present on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. side of f 41 and f 272; these have been labelled with an ‘a’.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/1947
- Title
- Coll 5/1 ‘Persian Gulf Air Routes: Hasa Coast & Flying over Nejd territory — Saudi regulations for the landing of foreign aircraft’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:6v, 9r:102v, 104r:272r, 273r:282v, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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