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New wartime aerial photographs of Scotland accessible

Another 4000 images of Scotland taken by RAF photographic reconnaissance units during the Second World War are now accessible online.

New batch of images released

A new batch of 3000 images has been scanned, catalogued and uploaded to the NCAP website. Countries covered include France, Germany, Norway, Denmark and Croatia.

NCAP imagery used in major US documentary

PBS network to broadcast 3D Spies of WWII, the story of the Allied hunt for Hitler's V-weapons.

Temporary change to Search Room service

From Monday 23 January to Friday 24 February 2012, records will only be retrieved for search room users at 13:00 each day due to internal building works.

Aerial Image Becomes Work of Art

Artist creates memorial tapestry from aerial photograph

US Navy Photography Now Accessible

US intern catalogues US Navy aerial photographs of Scotland

Operation Crossbow Documentary

BBC documentary first broadcast in May 2011 - developed in collaboration with NCAP - to be rebroadcast in the United Kingdom.

Skills for the Future

Skills for the Future trainees start work with NCAP and produce a mosaic of Glasgow

Operation Crossbow Documentary

NCAP imagery of a secret Second World War operation is the subject of a new BBC documentary

V-1 Site mosaic now available to subscribers

View mosaics of the Bois Carre V-1 'flying bomb' launch site as it was first seen in November 1943 and after allied bombing in April 1944

View newly-discovered aerial images of the Libyan capital Tripoli in 1942

Wartime images of Tripoli have just been discovered in the vast archives of the National Collection of Aerial Photography

Zoomify feature now available

View online images at higher resolution with our new zoomify feature, available with a website subscription

Out Now - Above Scotland - Cities

Discover aerial photography of Scotland’s cities in our new book.

Aerofilms saved for the nation

£1.7m Lottery grant will conserve and digitise historical aerial photograph collection of Britain.

Aerial photographs showing the destruction of Freiburg now accessible online

Over 500 aerial photographs taken during a British photographic reconnaissance sortie over southern Germany, in March 1945, are now accessible online.

M Section aerial photographs now accessible online

Over 3000 aerial photographs created by British photographic reconnaissance units, during their training missions over Scotland in the Second World War, are now accessible online.

Second World War camouflage photographs of Scotland now accessible online

View aerial photographs of camouflaged industrial and military installations in Scotland during the Second World War.

NCAP images on German television

Images of war-damaged German cities feature in a ZDF documentary, part of the Deutschland von Oben series.

Changes to search room services

From April 2010 there will be changes to our search room opening times and important services developments.

Newly discovered images of storm-damaged Mulberry harbour

Photography from June 1944 showing the famous artificial harbour at Vierville, codenamed Mulberry A, has just been digitised.

Detective work uncovers hidden secrets in The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives (TARA)

View never before seen aerial photographs of notable moments in British and world military history.

View unseen images of Scotland's countryside, towns and cities in the 1940s and 1950s

A collection of post-war aerial photographs that informed the planning and building of modern Scotland are now available to view for the first time online.

Wartime European cities now online

See unique aerial images of Europe’s major cities in the midst of the Second World War.

Out Now - Above Scotland

Discover Scotland’s National Collection of Aerial Photography in our new book.