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Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star
The Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, redesignated F-80 in 1948, was the US Army Air Forces' first operational jet fighter, first flown in 1944 and used widely in the Korean War.
Lockheed S-3 Viking
The Lockheed S-3 Viking was a twin-engine, four-crew carrier-based jet built for US Navy anti-submarine warfare, the Navy's only ASW jet, retired from fleet service in 2009.
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, also known as the SR-71, is an American Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance aircraft flown by the US Air Force from 1966 to 1990.
Lockheed T-33
The Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star, known as the T-Bird, is a two-seat jet trainer developed from the P-80 fighter, serving as the US Air Force's only jet trainer from 1948 to 1957.
Lockheed U-2
The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed Dragon Lady, is an American high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft designed by Kelly Johnson's Skunk Works, flying at 70,000 feet for the United States since 1956.
Lockheed Vega
The Lockheed Vega is an American single-engine, high-wing monoplane first delivered in 1927, one of the fastest aircraft of its day and a favorite of record-setting pilots.
Lockheed Ventura
The Lockheed Ventura, also known as the B-34 Ventura, was a twin-engine medium and patrol bomber of World War II, developed from the Lockheed Lodestar airliner.
Lockheed X-7
The Lockheed X-7, nicknamed the Flying Stove Pipe, was an American unmanned ramjet test vehicle flown by the U.S. Air Force from 1951 to 1960.
Lockheed XFV
The Lockheed XFV, also known as the XFV-1 Salmon, was an American experimental tail-sitting VTOL fighter prototype built by Lockheed in the early 1950s for the US Navy.
Lockheed YF-12
The Lockheed YF-12 was an experimental Mach 3 fighter-interceptor version of the A-12 built for the US Air Force, with three prototypes flown from 1963.
Lockheed YF-22
The Lockheed YF-22, also known as the YF-22A, was a twin-engine stealth fighter prototype that won the Air Force's 1991 ATF competition over the YF-23.
Logan International Airport
Logan International Airport, officially General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport, is Boston's primary airport, the largest in New England, handling 43.8 million passengers in fiscal 2025.
Loganair
Loganair is a Scottish regional airline, established in 1962 and headquartered at Glasgow Airport, operating scheduled passenger and cargo flights across the UK, Ireland, and Scandinavia.
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, or air disaster, killed 44 of 45 aboard a plane carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team near Yaroslavl, Russia, in 2011.
Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport (গোপীনাথ বৰদলৈ)
Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, also called Guwahati Airport or LGBI Airport, serves Guwahati in Assam, India, and is named after the state's first Chief Minister.
Lolita Express
Lolita Express is the press nickname for a Boeing 727 private jet owned by Jeffrey Epstein, whose handwritten flight logs became central evidence against Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
London City Airport
London City Airport, also known as LCY or Docklands Airport, opened in East London's Docklands in 1987 and serves over 30 destinations across the UK and Europe.
London Southend Airport
London Southend Airport is a single-runway airport in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, about 45 miles east of London, serving European leisure flights, with easyJet reopening a base there in 2025.
London Stansted Airport
London Stansted Airport, also known as Stansted Airport, is a single-runway international airport and London's third-busiest, owned by Manchester Airports Group since 2013 and the largest base of Ryanair.
Long Beach Airport
Long Beach Airport, also known as Daugherty Field, is a city-owned public airport in Long Beach, California, about 15 miles southeast of LAX. Established in 1923, it is California's oldest municipal airport.
Long Island MacArthur Airport
Long Island MacArthur Airport (ISP), originally Islip Airport, is a public airport in Ronkonkoma on Long Island, New York, owned by the Town of Islip since 1944.
Long Range Strike Bomber
The Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) was the US Air Force program that produced the B-21 Raider, a stealth bomber meant to replace the B-52 and B-1B.
Longest flights
The longest flights are scheduled nonstop airline services measured by great-circle distance, led since 2020 by Singapore Airlines' New York JFK–Singapore route at roughly 15,350 km and 18 hours 40 minutes.
Longitudinal separation
Longitudinal separation is the air traffic control method of spacing aircraft along the same track by time or distance, used mainly in oceanic airspace without radar surveillance.
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, also known as Lorenzo Ervin, is an American Black anarchist who wrote Anarchism and the Black Revolution while serving about fifteen years in prison for hijacking a plane to Cuba in 1969.
Los Angeles International Airport
Los Angeles International Airport, known as LAX, is the primary commercial airport for the Los Angeles area and the fifth busiest in the United States.
Los Cabos International Airport
Los Cabos International Airport, also called San José del Cabo Airport, is the airport serving the Los Cabos resort region at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula.
Loss of control in-flight
Loss of control in-flight (LOC-I) is a standard aviation accident category covering stalls, upsets, and spins where control is lost without a primary system failure.
LOT Polish Airlines
LOT Polish Airlines, also known as Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT, is Poland's state-owned flag carrier, founded in 1928 and based at Warsaw Chopin Airport in Warsaw.
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, formerly Moisant Field, is the primary commercial airport of Louisiana, located in Kenner about 10 miles west of downtown New Orleans.