Air Pictorial was a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 aviation

Aviation

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 magazine

Magazine

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 covering defence aerospace

Military aircraft

A military aircraft is any fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft that is operated by a legal or insurrectionary armed service of any type. Military aircraft can be either combat or non-combat:...

 and civil aviation

Civil aviation

Civil aviation is one of two major categories of flying, representing all non-military aviation, both private and commercial. Most of the countries in the world are members of the International Civil Aviation Organization and work together to establish common standards and recommended practices...

 topics. By 2002 when the magazine was assimilated into Aviation News, Air Pictorial comprised 64 volumes containing 620 issues between them

Initially published as 'Air Defence Corps

Air Defence Cadet Corps

In 1938, Air Commodore Chamier's plan to form an Air Defence Cadet Corps came to fruition. His idea was to attract and train young men who had an interest in aviation, from all over the country...

 Gazette' in 1939 it was renamed to 'Air Training Corps

Air Training Corps

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Gazette: The Journal of the Air Training Corps' in 1941 resetting the issue numbering to Vol.1 No.1 in the process. In 1946, the title was changed to 'Air Reserve Gazette', restarting the numbering at Vol.1 No.1 again. In January 1947 the numbering was reset to Vol.9 No.1, reflecting the cumulative volumes from 1939 to ease confusion. In 1951 'Air Pictorial & Air Reserve Gazette' was adopted and in April 1958 the '& Air Reserve Gazette' part of the title was dropped.

External links

• List of Air Pictorial issues with article listing via http://www.theaviationindex.com/