List of civil aircraft explained
List of civil aircraft is a list of articles on civilian aircraft with descriptions, which excludes aircraft operated by military organizations in civil markings, warbirds, warbirds used for racing, replica warbirds and research aircraft.
A
ABC Motors
Abraham
Abrams
Ace Aircraft Manufacturing Company
- Ace Baby Ace single-seat parasol monoplane ultralight homebuilt
- Ace Junior Ace single-seat parasol monoplane ultralight homebuilt
- Ace Scooter single-seat parasol monoplane ultralight homebuilt
Acro Sport
Adam Aircraft Industries
Adcox
Advanced Aerodynamics and Structures Inc.
Advanced Vehicle Engineers
Aerial Distributors
Aero Engineers Australia
Aero-Flight
Aermacchi
(for earlier types see Macchi)
Aero AT
Aero Boero
Aéro Club du Bas Armagnac
Aero Commander
Aero Vodochody
Aerokopter
Aeromarine/Aeromarine-Klemm
Aeromot
Aeronca
Aero Spacelines
Aérospatiale
(see also Eurocopter & SOCATA)
Aerostar
Aetna
Agusta and AgustaWestland
Ahrens
Air Tractor
Aichi
Airbus
Airco
(for later designs see de Havilland)
Aircraft Designs
Airspeed
Air Creation
Albatros
Alcor
Aleksandrov-Kalinin
All American
Allegro LSA
Alliance
Alon
Alpha
- Alpha 2000 Robin R2000 manufactured in New Zealand
American Aviation
American Champion
American Eagle
American Gyro
Anderson
Anderson Greenwood
ANEC
- ANEC I single-seat ultralight monoplane
- ANEC III single engine mailplane and airliner
Angel Aircraft Corporation
Ansaldo
Antonov
Antoinette
APM
Arado
Arctic Aircraft
Argonaut
Armstrong Whitworth
Arrow
Arup
Atlantic Aircraft
(Fokker America, for Dutch aircraft see Fokker)
ATR
- ATR 42 turboprop regional airliner
- ATR 72 turboprop regional airliner
Auster
Austin
Avia
Aviamilano
Aviat
Aviation Traders
Avid
Aviméta
Avro
Avro Canada
Avtek
- Avtek 400 twin-turboprop canard utility airliner
Ayres
B
BAC (British Aircraft Company)
BAC (British Aircraft Corporation)
Bach
BAe
Barkley-Grow
Barnhart
BAT
Bäumer
Beagle Aircraft
Beardmore
Bede
Beechcraft
Beecraft
Bell Helicopter
Bellanca
Beneš-Mráz
Beriev
Bernard
BFW
(for later designs see Messerschmitt)
- BFW M.17 two-seat ultralight sportsplane
- BFW M.18 single-engine high-wing monoplane airliner
- BFW M.19 low-wing single-seat sportsplane
- BFW M.20 single-engine high-wing monoplane airliner
- BFW M.23 two-seat sports monoplane
- BFW M.24 single-engine high-wing monoplane airliner
- BFW M.27 two-seat sports monoplane
- BFW M.29 two-seat sports/racing monoplane
- BFW M.35 two-seat sports monoplane
Blackburn
Blériot
Blériot-SPAD
Bloch
Blohm + Voss
- Blohm & Voss Ha 139 four-engine monoplane floatplane mailplane
- Blohm & Voss BV 142 four-engine monoplane transatlantic mailplane
Boeing
Boeing Canada
Boisavia
Bölkow
Bombardier
Bonomi
Boom Supersonic
- XB-1 Planned one-third scale supersonic demonstrator
- Boom Overture planned supersonic airliner
Boulton & Paul
- Boulton Paul P.6 two-seat open biplane
- Boulton & Paul P.64 Mailplane twin-engine biplane mailplane
- Boulton & Paul P.71A twin-engine biplane mailplane
- Boulton Paul Phoenix single-engined two-seat parasol monoplane ultralight
Brantly
Breese
Breda
Breguet
Bristol
British Aircraft Manufacturing
Britten-Norman
Brochet
Brunner-Winkle
Buhl
Burnelli
C
CAB
CAMS
- CAMS 37 single-engine airmail flying boat
- CAMS 51 twin-engine airmail and passenger flying boat
- CAMS 53 twin-engine airmail and passenger flying boat
- CAMS 56 twin-engine airmail and passenger flying boat
- CAMS 58 twin-engine airmail and passenger flying boat
- CAMS 161 four-engine airliner flying boat
Canadair
Canadian Vickers
CAP Aviation (now Apex Aircraft)
Capelis
Caproni
CASA
Caudron
Central Aircraft
Cessna
- Cessna Model A
- Cessna CR-2 racing monoplane
- Cessna CR-3 racing monoplane
- Cessna C-34, C-37, C-38, C-145 & C-165 Airmaster series of light utility aircraft
- Cessna T-50 Bobcat/Crane
- Cessna 120 two-seat light aircraft, economy version of the Cessna 140
- Cessna 140 two-seat light aircraft.
- Cessna 150 & 152 two-seat primary and aerobatic trainers
- Cessna 162 Skycatcher two-seat light-sport aircraft
- Cessna 170 four-seat light aircraft
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk
- Cessna 175 Skylark four-seat light aircraft
- Cessna 177 Cardinal and Cardinal RG four-seat light aircraft
- Cessna 180 & 185 Skywagon utility aircraft
- Cessna 182 four-seat light aircraft
- Cessna 188 AGwagon, AGpickup, AGtruck, and AGhusky crop dusters
- Cessna 190 & 195 five-seat light aircraft with radial engine.
- Cessna 205, 206 & 207 six-seat utility aircraft.
- Cessna 208 Caravan I, Grand Caravan & Cargomaster turboprop utility transport
- Cessna 210 Centurion four- to six-seat light aircraft
- Cessna T303 Crusader six-seat corporate and utility transport
- Cessna 310 four- to six-seat light piston twin
- Cessna 320 Skyknight four- to six-seat light piston twin
- Cessna 336 & 337 Skymaster six-seat light piston twins
- Cessna 335 & 340 six-seat twin-engine airliner
- Cessna 350 & 400 four-seat light aircraft
- Cessna 401 & 402 twin-engine light transport
- Cessna 404 Titan ten-seat utility aircraft
- Cessna 408 SkyCourier turboprop utility transport
- Cessna 411 six- to eight-seat business twin
- Cessna 414 Chancellor pressurized cabin twin
- Cessna 421 Golden Eagle pressurized cabin twin
- Cessna 425 Corsair/Conquest I pressurized turboprop cabin twin
- Cessna 441 Conquest II pressurized turboprop cabin twin feederliner
- Cessna 500 & 501 Citation, Citation I & Citation I/SP light corporate jets
- Cessna 510 Citation Mustang light corporate jet
- Cessna 525 CJ1, CJ2, CJ3 & CJ4 CitationJet series light corporate jets
- Cessna 550 Citation II & 551 Citation II & Bravo light corporate jets
- Cessna 560 Citation V, Ultra & Ultra Encore small to midsize corporate jets
- Cessna 560XL Citation Excel corporate jet
- Cessna 650 Citation III, VI & VII corporate jets
- Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign corporate jet
- Cessna 750 Citation X long-range corporate jet
- Cessna 850 Citation Columbus intercontinental corporate jet
- Cessna Citation Longitude intercontinental corporate jet
Champion
Chester
Chichester-Miles
Chilton
Chrislea
Christen
Cierva
Cirrus
Civilian
COMAC
Command-Aire
Commercial
Commonwealth (US)
Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (Australia)
Comper
Conroy
Consolidated
Convair
Couzinet
- Couzinet 70 Arc en Ciel trimotor airliner and mailplane
Cranwell
Crawford
C.R.D.A. CANT (Cantieri Aeronautici e Navali Triestini)
Culver
Cunliffe-Owen
Cunningham-Hall
Curtiss
Curtiss Canada
Curtiss-Reid
Curtiss-Wright
(absorbed Travel Air)
D
Dassault
Davis
- Davis D-1 light open-cockpit two-seat parasol monoplane
de Havilland
(see also Airco)
de Havilland Australia
de Havilland Canada
Dean-Wilson Aviation
Denney
Deperdussin (Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés)
Desoutter
- Desoutter three-seat cabin monoplane air taxi
Dewoitine
Diamond
Dornier
Douglas
(for later types see McDonnell Douglas)
Driggs
Druine
Dyle et Bacalan
E
Eagle Aircraft (US)
Eagle Aircraft (Australia)
Eastman
Eclipse Aviation/Aerospace
Edge
Edgley
utility/VIP helicopter-->
English Electric
Embraer
Emigh
Enstrom
ERCO
Europa
Eurocopter
(see also Aérospatiale)
Evangel
Extra Aircraft
F
Fairchild
Fairchild Canada
Fairchild Dornier/Swearingen
Farman
FFA
Fiat
Fleet
Fleetwings
Focke-Wulf
Fokker
(for US aircraft see Atlantic Aircraft)
Foster, Wikner
Found Brothers
Fournier
Ford
3-AT 1924
Four Winds
- Four Winds FX-210 four-seat light aircraft
Friedrichshafen
Fuji
Funk
- Funk B two-seat cabin monoplane
G
Gasuden
Government Aircraft Factories
General Aircraft (UK)
General Aviation (US)
Giles
Gippsland Aeronautics/GippsAero
Globe
Gloster
Granville Brothers
Great Lakes
Grob
Grumman
Gulfstream
H
Hamburger Flugzeugbau
Handley Page
Harbin
Harmon
Hawker Beechcraft
Hawker Siddeley
Heath
Heinkel
Helio
Hess
Heston
Hiller
Hindustan
Hitachi
Hollsmidt
Honda
Howard
Howard
Hughes
Hurel-Dubois
I
IAI
IAR
ICAR
- ICAR 36 single-engine monoplane airliner
Ilyushin
Indonesian Aerospace
Interstate
Ireland
Irkut
Ishikawajima
J
Jabiru
Johnson
Junkers
K
Kalinin
Kaman Aircraft
Kamov
Kari-Keen
Kharkiv KhAI-1
Kawanishi
Kawasaki
Kellett
Kestrel
Keystone
Keystone-Loening
Kharkov
Kinner
Klemm
Koolhoven
Kreider-Reisner
Kreutzer
L
Laird
Lake
- Lake LA4, Buccaneer amphibious light aircraft
- Lake Renegade, Renegade & Turbo Renegade amphibious light aircraft
Lancair
Lasco
Latécoère
Laville
Learjet
Let Kunovice
Letov Kbely
Lincoln-Page
- Lincoln-Page LP-2 three-seat sport biplane
- Lincoln-Page LS-2 Sport racing biplane
- Lincoln-Page PT open-cockpit two-seat biplane trainer
Lioré et Olivier
Lisunov
Lockheed
Lockspeiser
Lockwood
Loening
Luscombe
Luton Aircraft
L.V.G.
- LVG C.V passenger and mail biplane converted from observation aircraft
- LVG C.VI passenger and mail biplane converted from observation aircraft
M
Macchi
(for later types see Aermacchi)
Malmö
Mansyu/Manshu
Margański & Mysłowski
- Swift S-1 two-seat competition sailplane
- MDM MDM-1 Fox two-seat competition sailplane
- MDM Solo Fox single-seat competition sailplane
- Margański & Mysłowski EM-11 Orka single-engine pusher utility aircraft
Martin
Martin-Baker
Maule
- Maule M-4 to M-7 4–5-seat STOL light aircraft
McDonnell Douglas
(for earlier types see Douglas)
MD Helicopters
MDM
Messerschmitt
(for earlier designs see BFW)
Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm
(for earlier designs see Bölkow)
Meyers
Mil
Miles
Millicer
Mitsubishi
Mohawk
Monocoupe
Mooney
Morane-Saulnier
(see also SOCATA)
Morrisey/Shinn/Varga
Moss Brothers
- Moss M.A.1 tandem two-seat low-winged sporting monoplane
- Moss M.A.2 side by side two-seat low-winged sporting monoplane
Murphy Aircraft
N
Nakajima
National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL)
National Air Service
Nationale Vliegtuig Industrie (NVI)
NAMC
New Standard
Nicholas-Beazley
Nieuport & Nieuport-Delage
Noorduyn
Norsk Flyindustri
North American
Northrop
NuWaco
- NuWaco T-10 single-engine three-seat biplane
O
Ogden
Omega Aircraft
P
Pakistan Aeronautical Complex
Pacific Aerospace
Pander & Son
Paramount
Parks
Parnall
Partenavia
Pasped
Percival & Hunting Percival
Pheasant Aircraft Company
Piel
Piaggio
Pietenpol
Pilatus
Piper
Pipistrel d.o.o Ajdovščina
Pitts
Pitcairn/Pitcairn-Cierva
Platzer
Poberezny
Pocino
Polikarpov
Ponnier
Porterfield Aircraft Corporation
Potez
- Potez 29 single-engine biplane airliner
- Potez 43 single-engine light utility/touring monoplane
- Potez 56 twin-engine low-wing monoplane airliner
- Potez 58 single-engine light utility/touring monoplane
- Potez 60 two-seat parasol utility/trainer monoplane
- Potez 62 twin-engine monoplane airliner
- Potez 840 four-engine turboprop executive transport
Pottier
Poullin
Praga
PWS
- PWS-21 single-engine 4-passenger monoplane airliner
- PWS-24 single-engine 4-passenger monoplane airliner
- PWS-54 single-engine 3-passenger monoplane airliner
PZL
- PZL.4 trimotor monoplane airliner
- PZL.5 two-seat open-cockpit sporting and training biplane
- PZL.16 single-engine passenger monoplane
- PZL.19 three-seat sports monoplane
- PZL.26 three-seat sports monoplane
- PZL.27 trimotor monoplane airliner and mailplane
- PZL.44 Wicher twin-engine low wing monoplane airliner
PZL Mielec
PZL Świdnik
PZL Warszawa-Okęcie
Q
Quest Aircraft
Questair
Quicksilver Manufacturing
Quickie
R
Raab-Katzenstein
Rafaelyants
- Rafaelyants PR-5 single-engine cabin biplane developed from Polikarpov R-5
- Rafaelyants PR-12 cabin monoplane developed from Polikarpov R-5
- Rafaelyants RAF-1 single-seat low-wing sporting monoplane[4]
- Rafaelyants RAF-2two-seat low-wing sporting monoplane[4]
- Rafaelyants RAF-11twin-engine low-wing monoplane airliner[4]
Rans
Rawdon Brothers
Raytheon
RBVZ (Russo Baltic Wagon Works)
Rearwin
Renard
Reims
(licence built Cessna)
Republic
RFB
Robin
Robinson/Redwing
Robinson Helicopter
Rockwell
Rohrbach
Rotorway
Rumpler
- Rumpler 5A 2 converted reconnaissance biplane used for mail and passengers
Ruschmeyer
Rutan
(see also Scaled Composites)
RWD
- RWD 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7 two-seat open-cockpit sports monoplanes
- RWD 5 two-seat cabin sports monoplane
- RWD 6 two-seat cabin sports monoplane
- RWD 8 two-seat open-cockpit parasol monoplane trainer
- RWD 9 two-seat cabin sports monoplane
- RWD 10 single-seat open-cockpit aerobatics monoplane
- RWD 11 twin-engine monoplane airliner
- RWD 13 three-seat cabin sports monoplane
- RWD 15 5-seat cabin sports monoplane
- RWD 16 two-seat low-wing sports monoplane
- RWD 17 two-seat open-cockpit aerobatics and training monoplane
- RWD-19 two-seat low-wing sports monoplane
- RWD 21 two-seat low-wing touring and sports monoplane
Ryan
S
Saab
SABCA
- SABCA S.2 4-seat single-engine monoplane airliner
- SABCA S.11 trimotor monoplane airliner
- SABCA S.12 trimotor monoplane airliner
- SABCA S.30 parasol-wing ultralight
Sablatnig
Sadler
Salmson
Saunders (Canada)
- Saunders ST-27 twin-engine feederliner
- Saunders ST-28 twin-engine feederliner
Saunders-Roe/Saro (UK)
Savoia-Marchetti
(see also SIAI-Marchetti)
Scaled Composites
(see also Rutan)
Scheibe
Schempp-Hirth
Schleicher
Schneider (Australia)
Schweizer
Scottish Aviation
Seversky
Shanghai/Shaanxi
- Shaanxi Y-5 Chinese development of Antonov An-2
- Shaanxi Y-7 Chinese development of Antonov An-24
- Shaanxi Y-8 Chinese development of Antonov An-12
- Shaanxi Y-10 cancelled four-engine airliner
- Shaanxi Y-12 twin-engine light transport
Shavrov
- Shavrov Sh-2 single-engine utility monoplane amphibious flying boat
Short Brothers
SIAI-Marchetti
(for earlier designs see Savoia-Marchetti)
Siebel
Sikorsky
(for earlier types see RBVZ)
Sino Swearingen
SIPA (Société Industrielle Pour l'Aéronautique)
Skandinavisk Aero Industri (SAI)
Slick Aircraft Company
Sling Aircraft
Slingsby
SNCAC/Aérocentre (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Centre)
SNCAN/Nord (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Nord)
SNCASE/Sud-Est (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Est)
SNCASO/Sud-Ouest (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud-Ouest)
Snow
SOCATA
(for earlier types see Morane-Saulnier)
Sonaca
Sopwith
SPCA (Société Provençale de Construction Aéronautique)
Spectrum
Spartan Aircraft Company(US)
Spartan Aircraft (UK)
St-Just
St. Louis
Stampe et Vertongen
biplanes
Standard
Star
Starck
Stearman Aircraft
(absorbed by Boeing)
Stemme
Stinson
Stits
Sukhoi
Supermarine
Swallow
Swearingen
T
Tachikawa
Tairov
Tatra
Taylorcraft
Technoavia
Tecnam
Temco
The Airplane Factory
Thruxton
Thurston
Tipsy/Avions Fairey
Tokyo Koku
Toyota
Transavia
Travel Air
Tupolev
U
Udet
V
Van's
- Van's RV-3 single-seat low-wing monoplane homebuilt
- Van's RV-4 tandem two-seat low-wing monoplane homebuilt
- Van's RV-6 two-seat side by side low-wing monoplane homebuilt
- Van's RV-7 two-seat side by side low-wing monoplane homebuilt
- Van's RV-8 tandem two-seat low-wing monoplane homebuilt
- Van's RV-9 two-seat side by side low-wing nosewheel monoplane homebuilt
- Van's RV-10 four-seat low-wing homebuilt
- Van's RV-12 two-seat side by side low-wing nosewheel monoplane homebuilt
- Van's RV-14 two-seat side by side low-wing nosewheel monoplane homebuilt
VEB Flugzeugwerke Dresden
Verville
VFW-Fokker
Vickers-Armstrongs
Victa
VisionAire
Voisin
Volmer
Vulcanair
Vultee
W
Weaver Aircraft Co and Waco
- Waco 4 open cockpit biplane
- Waco 5 three-seat open biplane
- Waco 6 three-seat open biplane
- Waco 7 three-seat open biplane
- Waco 9 open-cockpit three-seat sports biplane
- Waco 10, GXE, ASO, ATO and similar open-cockpit three-seat sports biplane
- Waco JYM and JWM Mailplanes open-cockpit single-seat mail biplanes
- Waco KBA, IBA, PBA, RBA and UBA two-seat sports biplanes
- Waco PLA and ULA Sportsman two-seat sports biplanes
- Waco INF, KNF, and RNF open-cockpit three-seat sports biplane
- Waco PCF and QCF open-cockpit three-seat sports biplane
- Waco UBF open-cockpit three-seat sports biplane
- Waco UMF and YMF open-cockpit three-seat sports biplane
- Waco YPF-6, YPF-7, ZPF-6, ZPF-7 and UPF-7 open-cockpit three-seat sports biplane
- Waco ODC, PDC and QDC cabin touring biplanes
- Waco BEC, OEC and UEC cabin touring biplanes
- Waco UIC cabin touring biplanes
- Waco CJC and DJC cabin touring biplanes
- Waco UKC and YKC cabin touring biplanes
- Waco CJC-S and DJC-S cabin touring biplanes
- Waco UKC-S, YKC-S and ZKC-S cabin touring biplanes
- Waco UKS-6, VKS-7, YKS-6, ZKS-6, ZKS-7 and HKS-7 cabin touring biplanes
- Waco YOC & UOC cabin touring biplanes
- Waco CUC cabin touring biplanes
- Waco AQC-6, DQC-6, EQC-6, VQC-6, YQC-6 and ZQC-6 cabin touring biplanes
- Waco AGC-8, DGC-7, EGC-7, EGC-8, MGC-8, ZGC-7 and ZGC-8 cabin touring biplanes
- Waco AVN & ZVN nosewheel cabin touring biplanes
- Waco ARE, HRE & SRE cabin touring biplanes
- Waco W Aristocraft pusher cabin monoplane
Wassmer
Weatherly
Wedell-Williams
Werkspoor
Westland
Wibault
- Wibault 240 single-engine airliner floatplane
- Wibault 280 trimotor monoplane airliner
- Wibault 360 single-engine monoplane airliner
Widerøe
X
Xi'an
- Xian MA60 twin-turboprop regional aircraft
- Xian MA600 twin-turboprop regional aircraft
- Xian MA700 twin-turboprop regional aircraft under development
- Xian Y-7 twin-turboprop transport/passenger aircraft
Y
Yakovlev
Yeoman
Z
Zeppelin
Zivko
Zlin
Zenith
Zenith
See also
References
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