Military Aviation Authority

The Military Aviation Authority (MAA) is an organisation within the British Ministry of Defence and is the single regulatory authority responsible for regulating all aspects of Air Safety across Defence, with full oversight of all Defence aviation activity. It is part of the MoD, but operates independently, via a Charter signed by the Secretary of State for Defence.[1]

Military Aviation Authority
Agency overview
Formed1 April 2010
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
HeadquartersMoD Abbey Wood, Bristol
Agency executives
  • Air Vice Marshall Steve Shell
  • Rear Admiral Malcolm Toy, (Technical Director)
Websitemaa.mod.uk

The MAA was established on 1 April 2010 in response to the recommendations made by Mr Justice Haddon-Cave in his Nimrod Review,[2] which called for a radical overhaul of military airworthiness regulation.[3][4]

The authority incorporates the former Directorate of Aviation Regulation & Safety, previously the Defence Aviation Safety Centre (DASC)[5] which had been located at RAF Bentley Priory until the station closed in 2008 and the organisation moved to RAF Northolt.[6] The MAA, which is located at MoD Abbey Wood in Bristol, is led by two 2*s, Director (Operations) and Director (Technical), who collectively form the MAA Executive.

On 1 April 2015, the MAA became part of the Defence Safety Authority.[7] The DSA is led by a 3* Director General who is based in MoD Main Building, Whitehall, London.

Principal personnel

The MAA is led by:

  • Director – Air Vice Marshall Steve Shell OBE
  • Technical Director – Rear Admiral Malcolm Toy[8]

Previous personnel

Director General
gollark: That's not really an *info*hazard, the damage is due to emotional response to it.
gollark: Because of, I don't know, viscerally experiencing it.
gollark: If [someone] is you and [bad thing] *happened* to you, then you'll end up with the bad trauma things.
gollark: What I mean is that if you just read as a bland fact on paper "[bad thing] happened to [person]", you will probably not suddenly gain all the horrible trauma downsides.
gollark: No.

References
  1. "MAA01: Military Aviation Authority Regulatory Policy". Defence Safety Authority. 19 February 2019.
  2. Haddon-Cave, Charles (28 October 2009). "Nimrod Review".
  3. Vogelaar, Rob (1 April 2010). "UK New Military Aviation Authority begins work". AVIATIONNEWS.EU.
  4. Purton, Leon; Kourousis, Kyriakos (2014). "Military Airworthiness Management Frameworks: A Critical Review". Procedia Engineering. 80: 545–564. doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2014.09.111.
  5. "Interview with Group Captain Tony Mills, Gp Capt RAF Flight Safety" (PDF). Air Clues. Royal Air Force. October 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2010. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
  6. "RAF Northolt". VSM Estates. 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
  7. "New Defence Safety Authority launched today". GOV.UK. Ministry of Defence. 1 April 2015.
  8. "Our management". GOV.UK. Military Aviation Authority. Retrieved 31 October 2019.


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