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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON DC 20330-1000
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OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
10 March 1994
SAF/AAIQ
1610 Air Force Pentagon
Washington, DC 20330-1610
MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AAI
SAF/AAZ
IN TURN
SUBJECT: GAO Review of Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents (GAO Code 701034) - INFORMATION MEMORANDUM
Reference your memorandum, 1 March 1994, request items:
(a) Identify pertinent directives concerning records retention and disposition.
The Air Force current regulation is AFR 4-20, Volume 2, Disposition of Air Force Records, Records Disposition Schedule, dated 1 May 1992.
Earlier schedules were:
AFR 12-50 volume II, Disposition of Air Force Records, Records Disposition Standards, 30 October 1987; 31 January 1986; 14 May 1984.
AFM 12-50 Volume II, Disposition of Air Force Documentation; 1 October 1969.
AFM 181-5, Records Management, Evaluation and Disposition of Records, 1 December 1966; 1 July 1963; and 10 November 1958.
AFM 181-5, Records Management, Disposition of Records, 1 July 1956; and 1 August 1954.
AFM 181-5, Administration of Records, 1950.
(b) Identify pertinent directives concerning reporting Air vehicle crashes, investigations, and wreckage/debris retention and disposition.
AFR 110-14, Investigations of Aircraft, Missile, and Nuclear and Space Accidents (AF/JACC).