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Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton
The Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton is a high-altitude, long-endurance Navy drone derived from the RQ-4 Global Hawk, providing persistent maritime surveillance alongside the P-8A Poseidon.
Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout
The Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout, originally designated RQ-8A, is an unmanned autonomous helicopter built for the United States Navy, with MQ-8B and larger MQ-8C variants.
Northrop Grumman RQ-180
The Northrop Grumman RQ-180 is a highly classified, high-altitude stealth unmanned aircraft designed by Northrop Grumman for complex intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions.
Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk
The Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk is an unarmed, high-altitude surveillance drone that flies ISR missions for the United States Air Force and allied operators.
Northrop Grumman X-47A Pegasus
The Northrop Grumman X-47A Pegasus was a company-funded, tailless experimental unmanned air vehicle that first flew in 2003 at China Lake, California, demonstrating the autonomous carrier-style landings needed for a naval unmanned combat aircraft.
Northrop Grumman X-47B
The Northrop Grumman X-47B is a tailless, stealthy unmanned combat air vehicle demonstrator built for the US Navy, first to land autonomously on an aircraft carrier.
Northrop P-61 Black Widow
The Northrop P-61 Black Widow, a twin-boom night fighter built by Northrop, was the first American aircraft designed around an airborne radar, flying in World War II.
Northrop T-38 Talon
The Northrop T-38 Talon is a twin-engine supersonic jet trainer, the world's first supersonic trainer, serving as the United States Air Force's advanced pilot trainer since 1961.
Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet
The Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet was an experimental tailless pusher fighter-interceptor built by Northrop for the United States Army Air Forces, with two prototypes flown in 1943 and 1944.
Northrop YA-9
The Northrop YA-9 was a twin-engine prototype close air support attack aircraft built for the Air Force A-X program, which it lost to the Fairchild Republic YA-10 in 1972.
Northrop YB-35
The Northrop YB-35, also known as the XB-35, was an American four-engine flying-wing heavy bomber whose first aircraft flew in May 1948 before the program was canceled in 1949.
Northrop YB-49
The Northrop YB-49 was an American prototype jet-powered flying wing heavy bomber built by Northrop for the US Air Force, first flown in 1947 and canceled in 1949.
Northrop YF-17
The Northrop YF-17, nicknamed Cobra, was a twin-engine prototype fighter that lost the 1975 Air Force competition to the YF-16 but was developed into the F/A-18 Hornet.
Northrop YF-23
The Northrop YF-23, unofficially Black Widow II, was a twin-engine stealth fighter prototype Northrop built with McDonnell Douglas, losing the Air Force's ATF competition to the YF-22 in 1991.
Northwest Airlines
Northwest Airlines, also known as Northwest Orient, was a major American airline founded in 1926, with hubs in Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Memphis, and merged into Delta in 2010.
Northwest Airlines Flight 188
Northwest Airlines Flight 188 was a 2009 San Diego to Minneapolis flight whose distracted pilots overflew the airport after losing radio contact for over an hour.
Northwest Airlines Flight 253
Northwest Airlines Flight 253, known as the Christmas Day bomb plot, was the target of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's failed underwear bombing near Detroit on December 25, 2009.
Northwest Airlines Flight 85
Northwest Airlines Flight 85 was a scheduled Detroit-to-Tokyo passenger flight whose 747-400 suffered a lower rudder hardover at cruise altitude on October 9, 2002, landing safely at Anchorage.
Norwegian Air Shuttle
Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA is a Norwegian low-cost airline headquartered near Oslo. It was Europe's third-largest low-cost carrier at its peak, and acquired regional airline Widerøe in January 2024.
Norwich Airport
Norwich Airport (NWI/EGSH), also called Norwich International, is a regional airport 2.5 miles north of Norwich on the former RAF Horsham St Faith bomber station, with a 1,841 m runway and 453,000 passengers in 2025/26.
Nose art
Nose art is decorative painting or lettering applied to military aircraft, usually near the nose, by aircrews expressing individuality and morale, peaking in World War II.
NOTAM
A NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) is a notice of aeronautical hazards, closures, and changes that pilots must review before flight, a system first standardized in 1947.
NOTAR
NOTAR (short for NO TAil Rotor) is a helicopter anti-torque system that replaces the conventional tail rotor with a fan-pressurized tailboom, developed by Hughes Helicopters.
Nuclear-powered aircraft
A nuclear-powered aircraft is a crewed aircraft carrying an onboard fission reactor to drive its engines, researched by the US and Soviet Union but never flown under reactor power.
Nut rage incident
The nut rage incident was a 2014 event in which Korean Air executive Cho Hyun-ah ordered a flight to return to the gate over the service of macadamia nuts.
Nuuk Airport
Nuuk Airport (IATA: GOH), also known as Godthåb Airport, is the international airport of Nuuk, Greenland's capital, opened in November 2024 with a new 2,200-meter runway.
O. R. Tambo International Airport
O. R. Tambo International Airport, opened in 1952 as Jan Smuts Airport, serves Johannesburg from Kempton Park, Gauteng, and is Africa's busiest airport, handling over 21 million passengers a year.
O'Hare International Airport
O'Hare International Airport, also known as O'Hare Airport, is a major airport in Chicago owned by the city, a dual hub for United Airlines and American Airlines.
Oakland International Airport
Oakland International Airport, officially Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport since 2025, formerly Metropolitan Oakland International Airport, is the main East Bay airport in Oakland, California, opened in 1927.
Oblique wing
The oblique wing, also called the scissors wing, is a single wing pivoted so one half sweeps forward and the other backward, tested by NASA's AD-1.