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Clark International Airport
Clark International Airport, also called Diosdado Macapagal Airport, is the main international gateway for Central and Northern Luzon in Pampanga, Philippines, built on the former Clark Air Base.
Claude Grahame-White
Claude Grahame-White (1879–1959) was an English pioneer aviator and aircraft manufacturer who lost the 1910 London to Manchester air race to Louis Paulhan and created the London Aerodrome at Hendon.
Clean Aviation
Clean Aviation is the European Union's public-private partnership for sustainable aeronautics, established in 2021 with a €4.1 billion budget to develop climate-neutral aircraft for launch by 2035.
Clear-air turbulence
Clear-air turbulence (CAT) is high-altitude turbulence encountered outside convective clouds, often in cloudless regions with no visible warning, caused mainly by wind shear near jet streams.
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) is Ohio's busiest airport, about 12 miles southwest of downtown Cleveland. Opened in 1925, it was the first municipally owned airport in the United States.
Clifton Williams
Clifton Curtis "C.C." Williams Jr. was a Marine Corps major, test pilot, and NASA astronaut killed in a 1967 T-38 crash before he could fly in space.
Close air support
Close air support (CAS) is air action by fixed-wing or rotary aircraft against hostile targets near friendly ground forces, requiring detailed integration with their fire and movement.
Coachella Valley Radio Control Club
The Coachella Valley Radio Control Club is a model aircraft club in Thermal, California, operating a 240-acre flying field and hosting the Best in the West Jet Rally.
Cobra maneuver
The Cobra maneuver, also known as Pugachev's Cobra, is an aerobatic maneuver in which a fighter jet pitches its nose up past 90 degrees, made famous in 1989.
Cochin International Airport (കൊച്ചി അന്താരാഷ്ട്ര വിമാനത്താവളം)
Cochin International Airport, also known as Nedumbassery Airport, is an international airport serving Kochi in Kerala, India, opened in 1999 and the world's first fully solar-powered airport since 2015.
Cockpit
A cockpit is the compartment of an aircraft, and some spacecraft, housing the pilot and flight controls; in larger transports it is called the flight deck.
Codeshare agreement
A codeshare agreement is a commercial arrangement in which one airline places its code on a flight operated by another airline and sells tickets as its own.
Coimbatore International Airport
Coimbatore International Airport, also known as Peelamedu Airport, serves Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India. It gained formal international status in 2012 and is run by the Airports Authority of India.
Cold shock response
Cold shock response, also known as cold water shock or hydrocution, is a life-threatening reflex of gasping, hyperventilation, and heart strain triggered by sudden immersion in water below 15°C (59°F).
Colgan Air Flight 3407
Colgan Air Flight 3407 was a commuter flight from Newark to Buffalo that crashed in Clarence Center, New York, on February 12, 2009, killing 50.
Collaborative Combat Aircraft
Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) is a United States Air Force program for AI-driven, semi-autonomous uncrewed jet fighters that fly alongside crewed fighters, part of the NGAD family of systems.
College of Air Traffic Control
The College of Air Traffic Control (CATC) was the UK's national air traffic controller training establishment, founded at Hurn near Bournemouth in 1949 and moved to Whiteley, Hampshire, in 2011.
Collier Trophy
The Robert J. Collier Trophy is an annual American award, established in 1911 and presented by the National Aeronautic Association for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics.
Collings Foundation
The Collings Foundation is an American nonprofit educational foundation founded in 1979 and headquartered in Stow, Massachusetts, best known for the Wings of Freedom Tour of restored World War II aircraft.
Cologne Bonn Airport
Cologne Bonn Airport (Flughafen Köln/Bonn), also known as Konrad Adenauer Airport, is a 24-hour international airport in Cologne, Germany, and a major cargo hub hosting UPS, FedEx, and DHL.
Colomban Cri-cri
The Colomban Cri-cri, also spelled Cricri and marketed as the Cricket, is a single-seat twin-engine amateur-built aerobatic aircraft designed by Michel Colomban, first flown in 1973.
Comac
Comac, formally the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, is a Chinese state-owned aircraft manufacturer in Shanghai that builds the C919 airliner and C909 regional jet.
Comac C909
The Comac C909, developed as the ARJ21, is a Chinese regional jet seating 78 to 97 passengers, in service with Chengdu Airlines since June 2016.
Comac C919 (中国商用飞机有限责任公司)
Comac C919 is a narrow-body airliner developed by China's Commercial Aircraft Corporation (COMAC). It is the nation's first jet designed to meet international airworthiness standards.
Comac C929
The Comac C929 is a wide-body airliner developed by China's COMAC, planned with about 280 seats, a 12,000 km range, and Air China as launch customer.
Comac C939
The Comac C939 is a proposed large twin-aisle airliner from China's COMAC, announced in pre-research in December 2024 as a larger successor to its C929 wide-body.
Comac C949
The Comac C949 is a proposed low-boom supersonic airliner studied by China's COMAC, designed to cruise at Mach 1.6, fly about 11,000 km, and carry 28 to 48 passengers.
Comair Flight 5191
Comair Flight 5191 was a Delta Connection flight that crashed taking off from the wrong runway at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, in 2006, killing 49 of 50 aboard.
Combat air patrol
A combat air patrol (CAP) is a defensive air mission in which fighters patrol a defined area to intercept and destroy hostile aircraft before they reach their targets.
Combat Aviation Brigade
A combat aviation brigade is a modular US Army aviation formation providing divisions and corps with attack, reconnaissance, air assault, and medical evacuation helicopters under one headquarters.