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AAirpass
AAirpass was a prepaid travel program of American Airlines introduced in 1981 to raise cash for expansion, whose best-known version guaranteed lifetime unlimited first-class travel starting at $250,000.
Ababil-3
The Ababil-3, third generation of Iran's Ababil drone family, is a tactical UAV built by HESA for surveillance and artillery spotting, with armed versions carrying Qaem guided bombs or Almas missiles.
Abbas ibn Firnas (عباس بن فرناس)
Abbas ibn Firnas (عباس بن فرناس), who died in 887, was a polymath of 9th-century Córdoba known for a reported winged glide near Rusafa and for astronomical instruments.
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, also known as Al Megrahi, was a Libyan former intelligence officer and the only person convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people.
Abu Dhabi Aviation
Abu Dhabi Aviation is an Abu Dhabi-based, publicly listed aviation services group, established in 1975, providing offshore oil support, search and rescue, medical evacuation, and charter services.
ABX Air
ABX Air is an American all-cargo airline based at Wilmington Air Park in Ohio. Formed in 1980 as Airborne Express, it operates Boeing 767 freighters for DHL, Amazon, and the government.
Academy of Model Aeronautics
The Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA), founded in 1936, is the national governing body for model aviation in the United States and the world's largest model aviation organization.
ACAE CJ-1000A
The ACAE CJ-1000A, Chinese name Changjiang (Yangtze River), is a Chinese high-bypass turbofan built by AECC as a domestic alternative to the LEAP-1C on the COMAC C919, and remains in certification flight testing.
ACARS
ACARS, the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, is a digital data link exchanging short text messages between aircraft and airline ground operations, introduced in 1978.
ACAS X
ACAS X is a family of airborne collision avoidance systems developed as the successor to TCAS II, computing advisories from optimized lookup tables rather than hard-coded rules.
Accidents and incidents involving the V-22 Osprey
Accidents and incidents involving the V-22 Osprey have killed 65 people as of July 2025, with the worst crash killing 19 near Tucson, Arizona, in 2000.
Adam A500
The Adam A500 is an American six-seat pressurized twin-piston business aircraft with a push-pull engine layout and composite airframe, certified by Adam Aircraft Industries in 2005.
Adam Air Flight 574
Adam Air Flight 574 was an Indonesian domestic flight from Surabaya to Manado that crashed into the Makassar Strait on 1 January 2007, killing all 102 aboard.
Adam Goldstein (technology executive)
Adam Goldstein is an American technology executive who co-founded and leads Archer Aviation, an electric aircraft maker in San Jose, after selling the recruiting marketplace Vettery in 2018.
Addis Ababa Bole International Airport
Addis Ababa Bole International Airport, opened in 1962, is Ethiopia's main international airport, the primary hub of Ethiopian Airlines, and Africa's leading cargo airport in 2024.
Adelaide Airport
Adelaide Airport (IATA: ADL), also known as Adelaide International Airport, is the primary airport serving Adelaide, South Australia, and Australia's fifth-largest, handling more than 8 million passengers annually.
Adelir Antônio de Carli
Adelir Antônio de Carli, known in Brazil as the "padre do balão", was a Brazilian priest who died in 2008 during a cluster balloon flight over the sea.
Adib Kanafani
Adib Kanafani is a Professor of the Graduate School in civil engineering at UC Berkeley, a transportation economist elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002.
Adolf Galland
Adolf Galland (Adolf Joseph Ferdinand Galland) was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace and general who led the fighter arm for most of World War II, with 104 victories.
Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport
Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas), opened in 1931, is Spain's largest airport and the main hub between Europe and Latin America, handling 68 million passengers in 2025.
Adolphe Pégoud
Adolphe Pégoud was a French aviator who made the first airplane parachute descent and inverted flight in 1913, and became the First World War's first fighter ace.
Adria Airways
Adria Airways, trading as Inex-Adria Airways from 1968 to 1986, was a Slovenian airline based in Ljubljana. Founded in 1961, it served as Slovenia's flag carrier from 1991 until its bankruptcy on 30 September 2019.
Advanced Landing Grounds of the Normandy campaign and Northwest Europe
Advanced Landing Grounds were temporary Allied combat airfields built across northwest Europe in 1944 and 1945 to move tactical air power forward with the ground armies.
Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System
An Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (A-SMGCS) is an airport ground system providing surveillance, alerting, routing, and guidance for aircraft and vehicles, in all weather.
Advanced Tactical Fighter
The Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) was a 1980s US Air Force program to build a stealthy supersonic-cruising air-superiority fighter, won by the YF-22, which became the F-22 Raptor.
Aegean Airlines
Aegean Airlines is a Greek airline headquartered in Athens and, together with its subsidiary Olympic Air, Greece's largest carrier. It joined Star Alliance in June 2010.
Aer Lingus
Aer Lingus is the flag carrier airline of Ireland, founded in 1936 and headquartered at Dublin Airport, with more than 100 routes to Europe and North America.
Aerial anti-shipping strike
Aerial anti-shipping strike is the mission of attacking warships and merchant vessels from the air, using torpedoes, bombs, mines, and guided missiles against moving, defended targets.
Aerial engagements of the Second Sino-Japanese War
Aerial engagements of the Second Sino-Japanese War were the air operations over China from July 1937 to Japan's 1945 surrender, fought by Chinese, Japanese, Soviet, and American air forces.
Aerial firefighting
Aerial firefighting, also called water bombing, is the use of aircraft to drop water or fire retardant on wildfires, with airtankers, scoopers, and helicopters performing the drops.