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The National Collection of Aerial Photography is one of the largest collections of aerial imagery in the world, containing tens of millions of images featuring historic events and places around the world.
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The archives at the National Collection of Aerial Photography in Edinburgh, Scotland (part of Historic Environment Scotland) contain 30 million aerial photographs of worldwide historic events and places.
National Collection of Aerial Photography. Delve into NCAP, one of the world’s largest and most significant collections of historic aerial photographs. Explore more than 26 million aerial images featuring historic events and places worldwide, including 1.6 million images of Scotland.
- The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives
- Scottish Office Air Photographs Unit
- The Creation of NCAP
At the end of the Second World War, millions of aerial reconnaissance images of the world had been accumulated at the Allied Central Interpretation Unit (ACIU), RAF Medmenham. This vast archive contained a visual record of the world at war. In the postwar years, interest in the wider use of the imagery grew amongst many of the academics who had bee...
At the end of the Second World War the Royal Air Force was tasked with undertaking Operation Revue, to provide the Ordnance Survey with aerial imagery of the entire UK. This imagery allowed the creation of new mapping and informed postwar planning and reconstruction. Several photographic reconnaissance squadrons undertook this work throughout the l...
In 2008, The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives was transferred into the care of RCAHMS and merged with the former archive of the Scottish Office APU. Following this, the merged archive was re-named The National Collection of Aerial Photography (NCAP). NCAP holds UK Government declassified and released aerial photography of places around the world (exc...
The National Collection of Aerial Photography is a photographic archive in Edinburgh, Scotland, containing over 30 million aerial photographs of worldwide historic events and places.
The National Collection of Aerial Photography (NCAP) holds one of the most significant collections of aerial photography in the world. We are custodians of 30 million images, providing a detailed and unique perspective on key moments in world history.
NCAP is the National Collection of Aerial Photography. It is one of the largest collections of aerial imagery in the world, containing tens of millions of aerial images featuring historic events and places around the world.
