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**Royal Air Force Muster Roll 1918 (sub category: First World War). This database is also on Ancestry (category Military, released 2016/10).
**Airmen Died In The Great War, 1914-1919 (sub category: First World War). Transcripts. The source is data from a Naval & Military Press DVD "reprint"<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/airmen-died-in-the-great-war-1914-1918-the-roll-of-honour-of-the-british-and-commonwealth-air-services-complete-on-one-fully-searchable-dvd-rom/ ''Airmen died in the Great War, 1914-1918 : the roll of honour of the British and Commonwealth air services of the First World War''] by Chris Hobson. Naval & Military Press DVD.</ref> of the book ''Airmen died in the Great War, 1914-1918 : the roll of honour of the British and Commonwealth air services of the First World War'' by Chris Hobson, published in 1995. This database is also available on fold3, the Ancestry owned pay website. Also includes Royal Naval Air Service records.
**Royal Air Force, Operations Record Books 1939-1945 (sub category: Second World War), added c 2020/05/29. These are '''index''' records from The National Archives at Kew, for records from the AIR 27 series. Some records classed as No 1 Squadron RIAF (Royal Indian Air Force) and No 10 Squadron RIAF (Royal Indian Air Force) were noted. Also dates before and after the range quoted.**British Royal Air Force, Combat Reports 1939-1945 (sub category: Second World War), added c 2020/05/29. These are '''index''' records from The National Archives at Kew, for records from the AIR 50 series.
*Held on the pay website Ancestry, with images on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, a database "UK, WWI Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923", which includes Royal Air Force personnel. For more details about these records, see the page [[British Army#WFA WW1 pension record cards|British Army - WFA WW1 pension record cards]].
*TheGenealogist, pay website, released 6 February 2020, as part of Military Records, which are part of its Diamond subscription,<ref name=DIA/> the '''first batch''' of a database "Air Force Operations" with featured article [https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2020/raf-operations-books-build-a-picture-of-wwii-aircrew-ancestors-action-1231/ RAF Operations books build a picture of WWII aircrew ancestors' action]. These are records from The National Archives series [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C2082 AIR 27 Air Ministry and successors: Operations Record Books, Squadrons], which date mainly from the mid 1930s onwards, but further details of TheGenealogist coverage is not given. Note AIR 27/1-2893 have been digitised by TNA, and may be downloaded for a fee from TNA website.
