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Aircraft Ground Engineer was a precursor / forerunner to the Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer.

The position was created by order of the United Kingdom Secretary of State for War and Air : Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, 29 April 1919.

On 31 March 1921 The Ministry of Munitions - A.I.D became a department of the Air Ministry. Civil aviation began using modified versions of redundant wartime aircraft. Purpose designed Civil aircraft soon followed. The AID then took on new responsibility, 1) inspecting Civil aircraft for airworthiness and 2) licensing Ground Engineers (until the Air Registration Board was formed in 1937).

By 1936 the basic delegated responsibilities were identified in a candidate handbook issued by the Air Registration Board and consisted of:

1) The Inspection and certification of aircraft, aircraft parts, and raw materials; and

2) The inspection of workmanship

used to build, maintain, repair, overhaul and modify "Civil" (meaning Civilian) Aircraft.