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Embraer Phenom 300

The Embraer Phenom 300 is a light business jet built by Embraer since 2009, certified for single-pilot operation and the world's best-selling light jet for 14 consecutive years.

Embraer R-99

The Embraer R-99 is a family of special-mission aircraft based on the ERJ-145 regional jet, including the E-99 airborne early warning aircraft and the R-99B remote sensing platform.

Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University

Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, founded as a flight school in Cincinnati in 1926, is a private aviation and aerospace university with campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona.

Emergency Declaration (비상선언) (film)

Emergency Declaration (비상선언) is a 2022 South Korean aviation-disaster thriller written and directed by Han Jae-rim, about a bioterrorist attack on a passenger flight from Incheon to Hawaii.

Emergency landing

An emergency landing is a landing made when an aircraft can no longer continue its flight under normal procedures, whether from engine failure, fire, weather, or a medical emergency.

Emergency locator transmitter

An emergency locator transmitter (ELT) is a battery-operated aircraft radio transmitter that activates on crash forces and broadcasts a distress signal to help rescuers locate the downed plane.

Emery Worldwide

Emery Worldwide, also known as Emery Air Freight, was an American air freight company founded in 1946 whose airline was grounded by the FAA in August 2001.

Emirates (airline)

Emirates, also known as Fly Emirates, is the flag carrier airline of Dubai, founded in 1985. It flies 53.2 million passengers to 152 cities in 80 countries.

Emirates fleet

The Emirates fleet is the all-widebody fleet of the Dubai-based airline Emirates, long consisting only of Airbus A380s and Boeing 777s, with the Airbus A350 added in 2025.

Emirates Flight 521

Emirates Flight 521 was a flight from Trivandrum to Dubai that crashed while landing at Dubai on 3 August 2016; all 300 aboard evacuated safely.

Emirates SkyCargo Flight 9788

Emirates SkyCargo Flight 9788 was a Boeing 747 freighter flown by ACT Airlines that veered off a Hong Kong runway on 20 October 2025, killing 2 security staff.

Empennage

The empennage, also called the tail assembly, is the entire tail group of an aircraft, comprising stabilizers plus the rudder and elevator that control yaw and pitch.

Empire Air Mail Scheme

The Empire Air Mail Scheme was a British 1930s program carrying all first-class mail across the Empire by air at the ordinary surface rate, from 1937.

Empire Airlines

Empire Airlines is an American cargo airline based in Hayden, Idaho, serving as a FedEx Feeder carrier across the western United States and Alaska since 1988.

Empire Test Pilots' School

The Empire Test Pilots' School (ETPS) is a British school for training test pilots and flight test engineers, based at MoD Boscombe Down in Wiltshire, England.

En Route Automation Modernization

En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) is the Federal Aviation Administration's automation platform at all 20 en route centers in the continental United States, fully deployed in March 2015.

ENAIRE

ENAIRE, formerly Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea, is Spain's state-owned air navigation provider, controlling over 2 million square kilometers of airspace and holding 51% of Aena.

End of the golden age of aviation

The end of the golden age of aviation came in the late 1930s, as the Hindenburg disaster ended passenger airships and rearmament absorbed the industry.

Endeavor Air

Endeavor Air, formerly Pinnacle Airlines, is a Minneapolis-based regional airline wholly owned by Delta Air Lines, flying about 150 regional jets as Delta Connection to 122 destinations in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean.

Energy management (aeronautics)

Energy management in aeronautics is the planning and control of airspeed, altitude, thrust, drag, and trajectory to meet flightpath targets. Poor energy management contributes to the most common fatal aviation accidents.

Engine Alliance GP7000

The Engine Alliance GP7000 is a high-bypass turbofan developed by a 50/50 joint venture of General Electric and Pratt & Whitney to power the Airbus A380.

Engine configuration

Engine configuration in aviation is the arrangement of an engine's cylinders relative to its crankshaft, described as radial, in-line, V-type, or opposed, along with cooling method.

Engine placement and mounting configurations

Engine placement and mounting configurations are the classes of location and attachment by which aircraft engines are installed, affecting safety, drag, flutter, structural weight, and growth potential.

Engine placement on water-capable aircraft

Engine placement on water-capable aircraft puts engines and propellers high, in wings, gull-wing breaks, or pylons, to clear hull spray, at the cost of unusual handling and pusher efficiency.

Engineered materials arrestor system

An engineered materials arrestor system (EMAS) is a bed of crushable cellular concrete blocks beyond a runway end that decelerates and safely stops an overrunning aircraft.

English Electric Canberra

The English Electric Canberra was a British twin-jet light bomber, the first jet-powered bomber in Royal Air Force service, with its maiden flight in 1949.

English Electric Lightning

The English Electric Lightning was a British single-seat, twin-engined fighter interceptor, the Royal Air Force's first supersonic fighter, designed against Soviet bombers and serving from 1960 to 1988.

Enhanced Tactical Flow Management System

The Enhanced Tactical Flow Management System (ETFMS) is EUROCONTROL's flow management application, in service since 2002, which calculates air traffic demand and allocates ATFM slots to individual flights.

Enola Gay

The Enola Gay is the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945.

Enstrom Helicopter Corporation

Enstrom Helicopter Corporation, founded by Rudy Enstrom in 1959, is a helicopter manufacturer in Menominee, Michigan, known for the piston F-28 and 280 series and the turbine 480 series.