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Aircraft types from A to Z

This directory covers 1,107 aircraft types, from airliners and freighters to business jets, helicopters and military aircraft. Each page tells you what the type is known for, lists its specifications, and shows how rare a catch it is in CatchFlights. The texts and figures come from the same curated catalogue the app uses, reviewed type by type; a type appears here once its description and enough of its specifications are confirmed.

A

Ada 1 type
Aermacchi 3 types
Aero (1) 4 types
Aero (2) 4 types
Aero (3) 2 types
Aero Commander 1 type
Aero Spacelines 1 type
Aeromere 1 type
Aeronca 1 type
Aeroplastika 1 type
Aeroprakt 7 types
Aeropro 1 type
Aeropup 1 type
Aerospatiale 11 types
Aerostar (1) 1 type
Aerostyle 1 type
Aerotechnik 1 type
Agusta 5 types
Agustawestland 4 types
Aidc 2 types
Air Command 3 types
Air Tractor 3 types
Airbus 27 types
Airbus Helicopters 9 types
Airbus Helicopters-Harbin 1 type
Aircraft Industries 1 type
Airlony 1 type
Akrotech Europe 2 types
Alenia 2 types
Alpi 3 types
Amd 1 type
American General 1 type
Amx 1 type
Antonov 16 types
Aquila 1 type
Arion 1 type
Armstrong Whitworth 2 types
Arv 1 type
Atr 8 types
Auster 6 types
Austflight 1 type
Autogyro 3 types
Aviat 1 type
Aviation Traders 1 type
Avicopter 2 types
Avro 2 types
Ayres 1 type

B

B & F Technik 1 type
Bac 4 types
Backcountry 1 type
Bae Systems 1 type
Basler 1 type
Baykar 1 type
Beagle 2 types
Beech 27 types
Beechcraft 3 types
Bell 19 types
Bell-Boeing 1 type
Beriev 5 types
Best Off 2 types
Boeing 62 types
Boeing Vertol 2 types
Boisavia 1 type
Bolkow 2 types
Bombardier 7 types
Bowers 2 types
Brandli 1 type
Brantly 1 type
Breguet 1 type
Bristol 1 type
British Aerospace 10 types
Britten-Norman 1 type
Brm Aero 5 types
Bücker 1 type

C

Caarp 1 type
Caiga 1 type
Canadair 8 types
Casa 3 types
Cassutt 1 type
Centre Est 4 types
Cerva 1 type
Cessna 71 types
Chance Vought 2 types
Changhe 1 type
Chengdu 4 types
Cirrus 6 types
Colomban 1 type
Comac 2 types
Comco Ikarus 1 type
Conair 1 type
Consolidated 2 types
Convair 2 types
Cub Crafters 1 type
Curtiss 2 types

D

Daher 3 types
Dassault 17 types
Dassault-Dornier 1 type
De Havilland 6 types
De Havilland Canada 11 types
Denel 1 type
Denney 1 type
Dewoitine 1 type
Dg Flugzeugbau 2 types
Diamond 5 types
Direct Fly 1 type
Dirgantara Indonesia 1 type
Dornier 6 types
Douglas 19 types
Druine 1 type
Dyn'aero 3 types
Dynali 2 types

E

Ela Aviacion 2 types
Embraer 21 types
Enstrom 1 type
Eurocopter 1 type
Eurofighter 1 type
Europa 1 type
Evektor 4 types
Extra 6 types

F

Fairchild (1) 7 types
Fairchild Dornier 1 type
Fairchild Hiller 1 type
Fairey 2 types
Fantasy Air 1 type
Fd-Composites 1 type
Ffa 1 type
Fiat 2 types
Fieseler 1 type
Finmeccanica 1 type
Flight Design 4 types
Fly Synthesis 1 type
Focke-Wulf 1 type
Fokker 6 types
Folland 1 type

G

Gardan 1 type
Gatard 1 type
Gates Learjet 1 type
General Dynamics 1 type
General Motors 1 type
Giles 1 type
Gippsaero 1 type
Glasair 3 types
Glaser-Dirks 2 types
Globe 1 type
Gloster 2 types
Grob 9 types
Grumman 13 types
Grumman American 1 type
Guimbal 1 type
Guizhou 1 type
Gulfstream Aerospace 13 types
Gyroflug 1 type

H

Halley 1 type
Harbin 3 types
Hawker 3 types
Hawker Beechcraft 4 types
Hawker Siddeley 3 types
Heli-Sport 1 type
Hesa 2 types
Hfb 1 type
Hiller 2 types
Hindustan 3 types
Honda 1 type
Hongdu 3 types
Howard (2) 1 type
Hughes 2 types
Humbert 1 type
Hunting 2 types
Hurel-Dubois 1 type

I

Iai 5 types
Iar 1 type
Icon 1 type
Icp 1 type
Ilyushin 9 types
Interplane 1 type
Irgc 1 type
Iriaf 1 type
Irkut 1 type
Issoire 4 types

J

Jihlavan 4 types
Jmb Aircraft 1 type
Joby 1 type
Jodel 4 types
Jurca 2 types

K

Kaman 4 types
Kamov 8 types
Kawasaki 6 types
Kazan 2 types
Klemm 2 types
Kopter 1 type
Korea Aerospace 3 types
Kubicek 1 type

L

Lak 2 types
Lange 1 type
Learjet 7 types
Let 4 types
Light Wing 1 type
Lockheed 17 types
Lockheed Martin 5 types
Lockwood 1 type

M

Magni 6 types
Marganski 2 types
Martin 4 types
Max Holste 1 type
Mbb 1 type
Mbb-Kawasaki 1 type
Mcdonnell 1 type
Mcdonnell Douglas 11 types
Md Helicopters 1 type
Messerschmitt 1 type
Mikoyan 6 types
Mil 11 types
Miles 4 types
Mitsubishi 8 types
Mooney 3 types
Morane-Saulnier 3 types
Mudry 2 types
Myasishchev 3 types

N

Nanchang 1 type
Nhi 1 type
Nord 5 types
North American 5 types
North American Rockwell 4 types
Northrop 4 types
Northrop Grumman 2 types
Nusantara 1 type

O

Orlican 1 type
Orličan (1) 1 type

P

Panavia 1 type
Partenavia 2 types
Percival 2 types
Piaggio 3 types
Piasecki 1 type
Pilatus 7 types
Piper 29 types
Pipistrel 9 types
Pitcairn-Cierva 1 type
Pitts 2 types
Polikarpov 2 types
Putzer 1 type
Pzl-Mielec 6 types
Pzl-Okecie 4 types
Pzl-Swidnik 2 types

R

Rans 2 types
Raytheon 1 type
Reiner Stemme 1 type
Remos 2 types
Republic 1 type
Rhein 1 type
Riley 1 type
Robin 8 types
Robinson 2 types
Rockwell 3 types
Rolladen-Schneider 2 types
Rotary Air Force 1 type
Rotorway 1 type
Rutan 3 types

S

Saab 8 types
Sai (1) 1 type
Scaled 1 type
Scheibe 1 type
Schempp-Hirth 6 types
Schleicher 7 types
Schweizer 1 type
Scottish Aviation 1 type
Shark Aero 1 type
Shark Aircraft 1 type
Shenyang 3 types
Shinmaywa 1 type
Short 5 types
Sikorsky 19 types
Sikorsky-Boeing 1 type
Silvercraft 1 type
Socata 7 types
Soko 4 types
Soko-Cniar 1 type
Soloy 1 type
Sonaca 1 type
Stemme 1 type
Stephens 1 type
Stinson 1 type
Storch Aviation 1 type
Sud 2 types
Sukhoi 8 types
Szd 1 type

T

Tai 1 type
Taylorcraft (2) 2 types
Tecnam 9 types
Transall 1 type
Tupolev 9 types

U

Utva 1 type

V

Van's 10 types
Vertol 1 type

W

Westland 4 types

X

Xian 4 types

Y

Yakovlev 7 types

Z

Zenair 1 type
Zivko 2 types

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