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City of Arts and Sciences

The City of Arts and Sciences (Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències) is a cultural complex in Valencia, Spain, designed mainly by Santiago Calatrava.

City of Derry Airport

City of Derry Airport (LDY, EGAE), formerly Eglinton and RAF Eglinton, is a council-owned regional airport 7 miles northeast of Derry, serving northwest Ireland and Donegal with subsidized Heathrow, UK routes and a planned Dublin PSO service.

City of Everett (aircraft)

The City of Everett, registration N7470, is the first Boeing 747 ever built, kept by Boeing for flight testing and displayed at Seattle's Museum of Flight.

City Palace, Jaipur

City Palace, Jaipur is a palace complex in the walled city of Jaipur, Rajasthan, built by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II after he founded the city in 1727.

City Palace, Udaipur

The City Palace, Udaipur is a palace complex on the east bank of Lake Pichola in Rajasthan, India, built from 1553 as the residence of the Mewar dynasty.

City Utilities of Springfield

City Utilities of Springfield is a community-owned municipal utility providing electricity, natural gas, water, SpringNet broadband, and CityBus transit to about 270,000 people in southwest Missouri.

Citybus

Citybus (城巴) is a franchised public bus operator in Hong Kong. Established in 1979, it serves major regions and operates multiple franchises covering North Lantau and the airport.

CityCenter

CityCenter, also known as Aria Campus, is an 18-million-square-foot mixed-use resort, residential, and retail complex on the Las Vegas Strip, opened in phases in December 2009.

CityGML

CityGML, or City Geography Markup Language, is an open OGC standard for semantic 3D city models whose objects carry meaning as well as shape, enabling energy, solar, and cadastral analysis.

CityLink (Melbourne)

CityLink is a privately operated tollway in Melbourne, Victoria, opened between 1999 and 2000, linking the Tullamarine, West Gate, and Monash freeways, operated by Transurban.

Cityscapes (dataset)

Cityscapes is a computer vision dataset and benchmark of 5,000 pixel-annotated urban street images from 50 cities, introduced in a 2016 CVPR paper by Marius Cordts and colleagues.

Ciudad Acuña

Ciudad Acuña, formerly Villa Acuña, is a Mexican city in Coahuila on the Rio Grande across from Del Rio, Texas, recorded at 160,225 inhabitants in the 2020 census.

Civaux nuclear power plant

The Civaux nuclear power plant is a French nuclear power station operated by EDF on the Vienne river, with two 1,450 MWe reactors commissioned in 1997 and 1999.

Civic Arena (Pittsburgh)

The Civic Arena, later Mellon Arena, was a Pittsburgh arena with the world's first retractable stainless steel dome, home of the Penguins from 1961 until 2010.

Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938

The Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 was a United States federal law creating the Civil Aeronautics Authority to regulate civil aviation safety and airline economics.

Civil Aeronautics Authority (United States)

The Civil Aeronautics Authority was an independent US federal agency created by the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 to regulate civil aviation, split into two agencies in 1940.

Civil Air Patrol

The Civil Air Patrol, also known as the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary, is a volunteer civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force founded in 1941.

Civil Air Transport (民航空运公司)

Civil Air Transport (民航空运公司), or CAT, was an airline founded in China in 1946 by Claire Chennault and Whiting Willauer, secretly owned by the CIA from 1950.

Civil Aviation Administration of China (中国民用航空局)

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (中国民用航空局, CAAC), headquartered in Beijing under the Ministry of Transport, regulates aviation safety, airworthiness, airports, and air traffic through seven regional administrations.

Civil aviation authority

A civil aviation authority (CAA) is a national regulatory body created by statute that oversees a country's civil aviation, enforcing safety rules, certifying aircraft and operators, and regulating airspace.

Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh

The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) is the national civil aviation regulator of Bangladesh, established in 1985 and headquartered at Kurmitola, Dhaka, under the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism.

Civil Aviation Authority of Israel

The Civil Aviation Authority of Israel (Hebrew: רשות התעופה האזרחית, CAAI) is the government agency regulating civil aviation in Israel, established by law in 2005.

Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia

The Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM) is the statutory body regulating civil aviation in Malaysia, established in 2018 to replace the Department of Civil Aviation.

Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore

The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Transport that regulates civil aviation and provides air navigation services, established in 1984.

Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand

The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT; Thai: สำนักงานการบินพลเรือนแห่งประเทศไทย) is Thailand's civil aviation regulator, a state agency established in 2015 that oversees safety, certification, licensing, and aerodromes.

Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines

The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, or CAAP, is the independent regulator of Philippine civil aviation, created by Republic Act 9497 in 2008, replacing the Air Transportation Office.

Civil aviation losses in the Yemeni civil war (2014–present)

Civil aviation losses in the Yemeni civil war are commercial aircraft destroyed, damaged, or grounded since 2014; Yemeni airspace has been closed to commercial traffic since March 2015.

Civil aviation regulation in Canada

Civil aviation regulation in Canada rests on the Aeronautics Act and the Canadian Aviation Regulations, administered by Transport Canada's Civil Aviation Directorate, which licenses pilots and carriers.

Civil Aviation Safety Authority

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) is Australia's independent statutory authority regulating civil aviation safety, licensing pilots, registering aircraft, and certifying aerodromes since its establishment in 1995.

Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a professional who plans, designs, and supervises construction and maintenance of infrastructure such as roads, bridges, tunnels, dams, and water supply systems, a profession distinct from military engineering since the 1700s.