Index of aviation articles. Aviation is the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft, especially heavier-than-air aircraft. Articles related to aviation include:

A
Aviation accidents and incidents
– Above Mean Sea Level (AMSL)
– ADF
– Accessory drive
– Advance airfield
– Advanced air mobility
– Advanced technology engine
– Adverse yaw
– Aerial ramming
– Aerial reconnaissance
– Aerobatics
– Aerodrome
– Aerodrome mapping database (AMDB)
– Aerodynamics
– Aerofoil
– Aerodrome beacon
– Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM)
– Aeronautical chart
– Aeronautical Message Handling System
– Aeronautical phraseology
– Aeronautics
– Aeronaval
– Aerospace
– Aerospace engineering
– Afterburner
– Agile Combat Employment (ACE)
– Aileron
– Air charter
– Air defense identification zone (ADIZ)
– Air freight terminal
– Air traffic flow management
– Air-augmented rocket
– Airband
– Airbase (AFB)
– Airborne collision avoidance system
– Air combat maneuvering (ACM)
– Aircraft canopy
– Aircraft maintenance engineer (AME)
– Aircraft maintenance technician (AMT)
– Aircraft registration
– Aircraft
– Aircraft catapult
– Aircraft engine controls
– Aircraft fairing
– Aircraft lavatory
– Aircraft marshalling
– Aircraft noise
– Aircraft ordnance
– Aircraft periscope
– Air data boom
– Airfoil
– Airline transport pilot license
– Airline
– Airliner
– Airmiss
– Air navigation
– Air observation post
– Airport/Facility Directory (A/FD)
– Airpark
– Airport
- Airports Commission
– Aviation safety
– Air route
– Airship
– Airshow
– Airspace classes
– Airspeed
– Airspeed indicator
– Air-start system
– Air traffic control
– Air traffic controllers' strike of 1981
– Air-to-ground communication
– Air turborocket
– Altimeter
– Altiport
– Altitude
– Angel Flight
– Angle of attack
– Angle of incidence
– Anhedral
– Anti-collision light
– Anti-torque pedals (helicopter rudder pedals)
– Arresting gear
– Aspect ratio (wing)
– Assisted take-off
– Astrodome
– Attitude indicator
– Autoflare
– Autoland
– Automatic Carrier Landing System (ACLS)
– Automatic dependent surveillance – broadcast
– Automatic terminal information service (ATIS)
– Autorotation (helicopter)
– Autorotation (fixed-wing aircraft)
– Autopilot
– Autothrottle
– Aviation
– Aviation archaeology
– Aviation communication
– Aviation history
– Aviation light signals
– Aviation medical examiner (AME)
– Aviation parts tag
– Aviation safety
– Aviation system
– Aviator
– Aviator call sign
– Avionics
– Auxiliary power unit

B
Balloon (aircraft)
– Basic fighter maneuvers (BFM)
– Bird strike
– Blast pad
– Blimp
– Blown flap
– Blue ice
– Bolter
– Boundary layer
– Brevity code
– Brodie landing system
– Bubble canopy
– Bush plane
– §Bypass ratio

C
Canard
– Carrier-based aircraft
– Carrier onboard delivery (COD)
– Catapult hook
– Centre of gravity (CG)
– Chine
– Chord
– Chosen instrument
– Circuit (airfield)
– Circulation control wing (CCW)
– Civil Air Patrol (US Air Force Auxiliary)
– Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
– Clear-air turbulence
– Cloaking device
– Cockpit
– Cockpit voice recorder
– Coefficient of lift
– Coefficient of moment
– Collective
– Commercial pilot license
– Common-use self-service (CUSS)
– Compass
– Compression lift
– Compressor stall
– Constant speed drive (CSD)
– Contour flying
– Controlled airspace
– CVFR
– Convergent Exhaust Nozzle Control (CENC)
– Convertiplane
– Cowling
– Crab landing
– Crash position indicator
– Cross control
– CTAF
– Cyclic

D
Deep stall
– Delta wing
– Dihedral
– Dilbert Dunker
– Distance measuring equipment (DME)
– Distributed propulsion
– Downwash
– Drag
– Drag-reducing aerospike
– Drop zone
– Dual control
– Ducted fan
– Dutch roll

E
Elevator
– Elevon
– Emergency locator beacon
– Emergency locator transmitter ELT
– Empennage (tail section)
– Endless runway
– Enhanced flight vision system (EFVS/EVS)
– Escape pod
– ETOPS
– Exhaust mixer
– Exoskeletal engine (ESE)
– Experimental aircraft
– External vision system (XVS)
– Eurocontrol (European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation)
– Empty weight
– Environmental and climate impacts of aviation
– Exint pod

F
Fail-safe
– Federal Aviation Administration (FAA – US authority)
– Ferri scoop
– Ferry flying
– Ferry range
– Fixed-base operator
– Flame damper
– Flame holder
– Flameout
– Flap
– Flight
– Flight computer
– Flight control surfaces
– Flight data recorder
– Flight deck
– Flight envelope protection
– Flight helmet
– Flight information region
– Flight instruments
– Flight length
– Flight level
– Flight management system (FMS)
– Flight plan
– Flight planning
– Flight simulator
– Flight test
– Flight training
– Flight time
– Forward-looking infrared (FLIR)
– Fly-by-wire (FBW)
– Flying
– Flying car
– Flying families
– Fly-in
– Flying Platform
– Flying wing
– Folding wing
– Form drag
- From the Ground Up (book) 
– Formation light
- Flight information service
– Fuel control unit
– Fuel dumping

G
Geared turbofan
– General aviation
– g-LOC
– G-suit
– Glass cockpit
– Glide path
– Glider aircraft
– Glider (sailplane)
– Glider pilot certificate
– Glider snatch pick-up
– Gliding
– Gluhareff Pressure Jet
– Go around
– GPS
– Great-circle distance
– Ground Air Emergency Code
– Ground carriage
– Ground effect
– Ground support equipment
– Gust lock
– Gyrodyne
– Gyro gunsight

H
Hard deck
– Hard landing
– Hardstand
– Heading indicator
– Head-up display (HUD)
– Hold (aviation)
– History of aviation
– Helicopter
– Helicopter flight controls
– Helocast
– Horseshoe vortex
– Hush kit
– Hypermobility
– Hypersonic flight

I
ICAO spelling alphabet
– Inertia coupling
– Inertial Navigation System
– Infrared (IR)
– Infrared search and track (IRST)
– Infrared signature
– Instrument flight rules (IFR)
– Instrument landing system (ILS)
– Instrument rating
– Indicated airspeed
– Inlet cone
– Intake/Inlet blank
– Intake ramp
– International Air Transport Association (IATA)
– International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
– Integrated drive generator (IDG)
– Integrated engine pressure ratio (IEPR)
– Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR)
– International Fighter Pilots Academy (IFPA)
- Instrument meteorological conditions
– Ion-propelled aircraft

J
Jet Airliner
– Jet blast deflector (JBD)
– Jet engine
– Jetliner
– Jettison
– Jet wash
– Jetway
– Joint-use airport
– Joystick

K
Kneeboard

L
Landing
– Landing gear
– Landing gear extender
– Landing lights
– Landing mirror
– Landing signal officer
– Landing T
– Landing zone
– Laser induced cavitation
– Laser supported detonation wave
– Lateral control system (LCS)
– Launch and recovery cycle
– Leading-edge extension (LEVCON)
– Lift (force)
– Lift-induced drag
– Light-sport aircraft
– Low-altitude parachute-extraction system
– Lower Airspace Radar Service (LARS)

M
Machmeter
– Mach tuck
– Magnetic chip detector
– Maintenance
– METAR
– Meteorology
– Maintenance, repair and overhaul
– Minimum interval takeoff (MITO)
– Mobility
– Mobile Air Traffic Control Tower (Mobile ATC/MATC)
– Mobile Electric Power Plant (MEPP)
– Moving map display (MMD)
– Multi-function display (MFD)

N
NACA duct
– Nacelle
– Nanolight
– Nautical airmile
– Naval air station (NAS)
– Naval outlying landing field
– Naval aviation (NAV-AV)
– Navalised aircraft
– Navigation
- Navigation light
– Night aviation regulations in the US
– No-fly zone
– Non-directional beacon (NDB)
– Non-towered airport
– Nose bullet
– NOTAM

O
Obstacle departure procedure
– Obstacle-free zone (OFZ)
– Oleo strut
– Operational Readiness Platform (ORP)
– Oshkosh Airshow
– Overhead join

P
Parts departing aircraft
– Performance and weather minima
– Performance envelope
– Personal air vehicle
– Phugoid
– Pilot controlled lighting
– Pilot direction indicator (PDI)
– Pilot licenses
– Pilot licensing and certification
– Pilot reports (PIREPS)
– Pilot’s Projected Display Indicator (PPDI)
– Plane guard
– Plasma cavitator leading edge
– Powered lift
– Power push-over
– Precision approach path indicator
– Precooled jet engine
– Private pilot license
– Prone pilot
– Propeller
– Propelling nozzle
– Propfan
– Propulsion-controlled aircraft (PCA)
– Pulsejet
– Pushback (aviation)

Q
Quick access recorder
– QFE
– QNH
– Q code
– QTOL

R
Radar
– Radar intercept officer
– Radio beacon
– Radar blip
– Radar cross-section
– Radar gunsight
– Radar lock-on
– Radar warning receiver
– Ram air turbine
– Ramjet
– Reaction engine
– Reaction propulsion
– Ready room
– Rearward visibility panels
– Reciprocating engines
– Red square
– Reduced-gravity aircraft
– Reduced take-off and landing (RTOL)
– Relaxed stability
– Remove before flight tag
– RIAT
– Roadable aircraft
– Rocket turbine engine
– Rogallo wing
– Rotating detonation engine
– Rough-field capability
– Route structure
– Rudder
– Ruddervator
– Rule of three (aviation)
– Runway
– Runway safety area (RSA)
– Run-up (aviation)

S
Satellite airfield
– Scramjet
– Seaplane base
– Second line
– Sectional chart
– Self-sealing fuel tank
– Shock diamond
– Shcramjet
– Short-field landing
– Side-Looking Airborne Radar (SLAR)
– Signal square
– Skid
– Spatial disorientation
– Spar
– Spin (flight)
– Spoiler (aeronautics)
– Spy basket
– Slats
– Slip landing
– Soft deck
– specific fuel consumption (propeller engines)
– Specific fuel consumption (jet engines)
– Sport pilot certificate
– Stabilator
– Stagger
– Stall
– Standard day
– Stealth aircraft
– Stick shaker
– STOLport
– Sto-wing
– Strike package
– Student pilot certificate
– Supercruise
– Supermaneuverability
– Supine cockpit
– Swedish Civil Aviation Administration
– Swing-wing
– Synthetic cockpit
– Synthetic vision system (SVS)

T
T-tail
– Tactical Camera System (TCS)
– Tabletop runway
– Tactical beacon (TACBE)
– Tailess aircraft
– Tailhook
– Takeoff
– Takeoff/go-around switch
– Target blip
– Taxiing
– Taxiway
– Terrain-following radar (TFR)
– Ten-code
– Terminal area chart
– Thrust lever
– Thrust reversal
– Thrust vectoring
– Track while scan
– Traffic pattern indicator
– Transatlantic flight
– Trim tab
– True airspeed
– Turbine engine
– Turn and bank indicator

U
Uncontrolled airport (see Non-towered airport)
– Uncontrolled airspace
– Underground hangar
– Urban Air Mobility
– Usable fuel

V
V speeds
– V-tail
– Valveless pulsejet
– Variable cycle engine
– Venturi effect 
– Versatile Digital Analyzer (VERDAN)
– Vertical situation display (VSD)
– Vertical speed indicator
– Vertical stabilizer (fin)
– VFR-on-top
– VFR over-the-top
– Very light jet (VLJ)
– Visual approach slope indicator (VASI)
– Visual flight rules (VFR)
– VNE 
– VOR VHF omni-range (type of navigational beacon)
– Visual meteorological conditions
– Vortex generator

W
War emergency power
– Water landing
– Wave off
– Waverider
– Waypoint
– Wayport
– Wheel chock
– Wide-body aircraft
– Wind shear
– Wind tunnel
– Wing
– Wingman
– Wingtip vortices
– Wingbox
– Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle
– Winglet
– Wire strike protection system
– World aeronautical chart

Y
Yaw angle
– Yaw string
– Yehudi lights

Z
Zero-fuel weight
– Zero-length launch

See also
Lists of aviation topics
List of aviation, avionics, aerospace and aeronautical abbreviations
List of aviation mnemonics
List of aircraft weapons
Glossary of gliding and soaring

Aviation-related lists
Wikipedia indexes