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Japan Airlines (日本航空)
Japan Airlines (日本航空), commonly known as JAL, is a major Japanese airline headquartered in Tokyo. Founded in 1951, it is Japan's first postwar airline and an oneworld member.
Japan Transport Safety Board
The Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB), also called the Japanese Transportation Safety Board, is Japan's national agency investigating the causes of aircraft, railway, and marine accidents and serious incidents.
Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi
Akagi (赤城) was an Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier, flagship of the Kidō Butai, in service from 1927 until she was sunk at Midway in 1942.
Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū
Hiryū was an Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier completed in 1939 and sunk at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, after disabling USS Yorktown.
Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō
Hōshō (鳳翔) was an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, completed in 1922 as the first ship in any navy designed from the keel up as a carrier.
Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga
Kaga (加賀) was an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, converted from a battleship hull, that served from 1928 and fought at Pearl Harbor and Midway.
Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō
The Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō (龍驤) was a light carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, completed in 1933 and sunk at the Battle of the Eastern Solomons in 1942.
Japanese aircraft carrier Sōryū
Sōryū (蒼龍, Blue Dragon) was an Imperial Japanese Navy fleet aircraft carrier of the Kido Butai, completed in 1937 and sunk at Midway in 1942.
Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku
Zuikaku (瑞鶴) was a Shokaku-class fleet carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, completed in 1941, that attacked Pearl Harbor and fought at Coral Sea and Leyte Gulf.
Japanese battleship Musashi
Musashi (武蔵) was a Yamato-class battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, built at Nagasaki and commissioned in 1942, sunk by American aircraft during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944.
Japanese battleship Yamato
The Japanese battleship Yamato (大和) was the largest battleship ever built, an Imperial Japanese Navy ship completed in December 1941 and sunk by U.S. aircraft on 7 April 1945.
JAT Flight 367
JAT Flight 367 was a Jugoslovenski Aerotransport flight destroyed by a bomb over Czechoslovakia in 1972, whose flight attendant Vesna Vulović survived the highest fall without a parachute.
JATO
JATO (jet-assisted take-off), also called RATO or RATOG, gives overloaded aircraft extra takeoff thrust from small solid-propellant rockets; developed in the United States before World War II.
Jazeera Airways
Jazeera Airways (طيران الجزيرة) is a Kuwaiti low-cost airline established in 2004 as Kuwait's first private airline. It operates an all-Airbus fleet from Kuwait International Airport.
Jean Batten
Jean Gardner Batten, born Jane Batten, was a New Zealand aviator whose 1930s solo flights included the first direct flight from England to New Zealand in 1936.
Jean Mermoz
Jean Mermoz (1901–1936) was a French aviator who flew airmail for the Aéropostale and made the first commercial mail crossing of the South Atlantic in 1930.
Jeana Yeager
Jeana Lee Yeager is an American aviator who, with pilot Dick Rutan, flew the Rutan Voyager on the first nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world in December 1986.
Jeddah International Airport (closed 1981)
Jeddah International Airport, also known as Kandara Airport or Abbas Ibn Firnas Airport, served Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from 1952 until King Abdulaziz International Airport replaced it in 1981.
Jeffrey Skiles
Jeffrey Skiles, known as Jeff Skiles, is an American retired airline pilot who was First Officer on US Airways Flight 1549, ditched in the Hudson River in 2009.
Jeju Air Flight 2216
Jeju Air Flight 2216 was a passenger flight from Bangkok to Muan, South Korea, that crashed on landing on December 29, 2024, killing 179 of the 181 people aboard.
Jeppesen
Jeppesen is an American aviation navigation company founded in 1934 by airmail pilot Elrey Borge Jeppesen, known for aeronautical charts and electronic navigation databases used by pilots worldwide.
Jerrie Cobb
Jerrie Cobb, born Geraldyn M. Cobb, was an American aviator who in 1960 became the first woman to pass NASA's Mercury astronaut physiological tests, though she never flew in space.
Jersey Airport
Jersey Airport is the airport serving the Channel Island of Jersey, located in St Peter about 4 nautical miles northwest of St Helier and opened in 1937.
Jesse L. Brown
Jesse L. Brown, also known as Jesse Leroy Brown, was a US Navy aviator, the first African American naval aviator, killed in the Korean War in 1950.
Jessica Cox
Jessica Cox, born 1983, is an American motivational speaker, pilot, and disability rights advocate who became the first licensed armless airplane pilot, earning her certificate in 2008.
Jessica Dubroff
Jessica Dubroff, also known as Jessica Whitney Dubroff, was a seven-year-old American girl who died in a 1996 plane crash near Cheyenne, Wyoming, during a cross-country record flight attempt.
Jesus nut
The Jesus nut, or Jesus bolt, is the aviation slang name for the single large fastener that holds a helicopter's main rotor to the mast; its failure would detach the rotor in flight.
Jet Age
The Jet Age, also called the jet era, is the aviation period beginning in the late 1950s when jet airliners replaced piston-engine planes, starting with the Boeing 707.
Jet aircraft
A jet aircraft is an airplane propelled by jet engines, which generate thrust by accelerating hot gas rearward instead of turning a propeller; the type dominates commercial aviation.
Jet airliner
A jet airliner, also called a jetliner, is a fixed-wing commercial passenger airplane powered by turbojet or turbofan engines, pioneered by the de Havilland Comet in 1952.