Captain G B Cockburn[3] was appointed "Inspector of Accidents" for the RFC, reporting directly to the Director General of Military Aeronautics in the War Office.

AAIB administrative staff are part of the Department for Transport (DfT) and are recruited according to civil service guidelines.

Independent of the UK Space Agency, it will investigate spaceflight accidents that occur in or over the United Kingdom.

[19] The approximately 1.75-hectare (4.3-acre) head office site, which houses three large buildings and car park facilities,[20] is in a lightly wooded area south of the main runway of Farnborough Airport.

[22] The AAIB site is south of the airfield and east of the Puckeridge Ammunition Depot,[20] and it is located near the Basingstoke Canal.

[20] The Borough of Rushmoor stated that the AAIB complex "requires a secluded" and "secure" location due to "the nature of its operation.

"[24] Previously the AAIB head office was in Shell Mex House on the Strand in the City of Westminster, London.