Air Ministry

American  

noun

1. (in England) the department of government administering all civil and military matters concerning aviation.

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Example Sentences

She had seen the resident psychiatrist at the Air Ministry, who recommended she be released "immediately" from her home military department, the WAAF.

From BBC

Sempill offered a ride to another passenger, the aeronaut Charles Dollfus, an attaché with the French Air Ministry.

From Slate

Astrea, the firm currently running the Berkeley Square House site, says a new building on the site was occupied by the air ministry, in the run-up to the Second World War.

From BBC

With the assistance of the Air Ministry … Lord Northcliffe has been able to arrange, on behalf of the Times, for an attempted flight from Cairo to Cape Town, a distance of more than five thousand miles.

From Nature

His adoptive mother wrote to the Air Ministry in his support and received the response that “so long as your son can pass the necessary exams, medical and otherwise, we’d be glad to have him.”

From Washington Post