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Bell–Boeing V-22 Osprey
The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is an American military tiltrotor that takes off like a helicopter and cruises like an airplane, entering Marine Corps service in 2007.
Ben Gurion Airport
Ben Gurion Airport, formally Ben Gurion International Airport and coded TLV, is Israel's main international airport near Lod, 15 kilometers from Tel Aviv, and is known for its layered security.
Bensen Aircraft
Bensen Aircraft Corporation was an American manufacturer founded by Igor Bensen near Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, in 1953, whose Gyro-Glider and Gyrocopter kits seeded the homebuilt gyroplane movement.
Bensen B-8
The Bensen B-8 is a family of small American autogyros designed by Igor Bensen, comprising the towed Gyro-Glider and its powered version, the B-8M Gyrocopter.
Beriev A-50
The Beriev A-50, NATO name Mainstay and designated Il-82, is a Russian airborne early warning and control aircraft built on the Il-76 transport, in service since 1984.
Beriev Be-12
The Beriev Be-12, also known as the Chayka (Бе-12) or Mail (NATO reporting name), is a Soviet twin-turboprop maritime patrol and anti-submarine amphibian from Taganrog.
Beriev Be-200
The Beriev Be-200 Altair is a Russian twin-engine jet-powered amphibious aircraft designed by Beriev for aerial firefighting, which scoops 12 tonnes of water in a gliding pass.
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade, or Berlin Blockade and Airlift, was the Soviet Union's 1948 to 1949 cutoff of land access to West Berlin, the first major Cold War crisis.
Berlin Brandenburg Airport
Berlin Brandenburg Airport (Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg "Willy Brandt") is the international airport of Berlin, built on the former Schönefeld site and opened on 31 October 2020.
Berlin Schönefeld Airport
Berlin Schönefeld Airport (Flughafen Berlin-Schönefeld, IATA: SXF) was an airport south of Berlin, the DDR's central airport and later a low-cost hub, becoming Berlin Brandenburg's Terminal 5 in 2020 and closing in 2021.
Berlin Tegel Airport
Berlin Tegel Airport, also known as Tegel International Airport, was Berlin's busiest airport, built in 90 days in 1948 during the Berlin Airlift and closed in 2020.
Berlin Tempelhof Airport
Berlin Tempelhof Airport (Flughafen Tempelhof) was a Berlin airport operating from 1923 until its closure in 2008, known for its monumental 1936–1941 terminal and its role in the 1948/49 Berlin Airlift.
Beryl Markham
Beryl Markham was an English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer, and memoirist who in 1936 became the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo east to west.
Bessie Coleman
Bessie Coleman was an American civil aviator who became the first African American woman and first Native American woman to earn a pilot's license, in 1921.
BETA Technologies
BETA Technologies is a South Burlington, Vermont aerospace company founded in 2017 by Kyle Clark that builds the ALIA electric aircraft family and charging stations.
Beta Technologies Alia
The Alia is a family of electric aircraft from Beta Technologies of Vermont, made in fixed-wing and eVTOL variants for cargo, medical, and passenger missions.
Betsy Ross Air Corps
The Betsy Ross Air Corps was a pre-World War II organization of licensed American women pilots, founded by aviator Opal Kunz in 1931 to aid national defense.
Beverley Drake
Beverley Drake is a Guyanese-American aviator and aviation safety investigator who became Guyana's first female commercial pilot and, at the NTSB, its first black female senior aviation accident investigator.
Bhuj: The Pride of India
Bhuj: The Pride of India (भुज: द प्राइड ऑफ इंडिया) is a 2021 Hindi war drama directed by Abhishek Dudhaiya, starring Ajay Devgn as IAF Squadron Leader Vijay Karnik, about 300 Madhapur women rebuilding the Bhuj airstrip in the 1971 war; released on Disney+ Hotstar 13 August 2021.
Biafran airlift
The Biafran airlift was the international relief operation that flew food and medicine into blockaded Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War, delivering up to 100,000 tons in about 7,800 flights.
Big Game (2014 film)
Big Game (2014) is a 90-minute Finnish-German-British action film by Jalmari Helander in which Samuel L. Jackson's US President, downed in Air Force One over Finland, is rescued by 13-year-old Oskari (Onni Tommila); premiered at TIFF 2014, budget €8.5 million, shot in Bavaria.
Biggles
Biggles is the nickname of James Bigglesworth, a fictional pilot and adventurer created by English writer Captain W. E. Johns, who starred in nearly 100 books from 1932.
Billy Bishop
Billy Bishop, born William Avery Bishop, was a Canadian First World War flying ace credited with 72 air victories and awarded the Victoria Cross in 1917.
Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport
Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, also known as the Toronto Island Airport, is a small commercial airport on the Toronto Islands across from downtown Toronto, opened in 1939.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines (বিমান বাংলাদেশ এয়ারলাইন্স)
Biman Bangladesh Airlines (বিমান বাংলাদেশ এয়ারলাইন্স) is the state-owned national flag carrier of Bangladesh, founded in 1972, based in Dhaka, and flying to 30 destinations with an all-Boeing main fleet.
Biplane
A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two wings stacked one above the other and joined by struts; it was the first successful airplane type, dominant until the 1920s.
Bird strike
A bird strike, also called a bird hit, is a collision between a bird and an aircraft, most often during takeoff, landing, or low-altitude flight.
Birgenair Flight 301
Birgenair Flight 301 was a charter flight that crashed into the Atlantic shortly after takeoff from Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, in 1996, killing all 189 aboard.
Birmingham Airport
Birmingham Airport is the main airport for the West Midlands of England, opened as Elmdon Airport in 1939 and the UK's seventh largest, with a record 13.7 million passengers in 2025.
Birth aboard aircraft and ships
Birth aboard aircraft and ships, also called birth at sea, is the legal problem of determining a child's nationality when born where no state's sovereignty applies.