B2, B02, B.II, B.2 or B-2 may refer to:

Transportation

Aircraft

* AEG B.II, a German aircraft during World War I *

Albatros B.II The Albatros B.II, (post-war company designation L.2) was an unarmed German two-seat reconnaissance biplane of the First World War. Design and development Designed by Robert Thelen based on his 1913 Albatros B.I, the B.II was the aircraft that ...

, a 1914 unarmed German two-seat reconnaissance biplane *

Aviatik B.II ''Note:'' Not to be confused with the Austro-Hungarian Aviatik B.II series 32, 32.7 and 34 which were different aircraft. The Aviatik B.II was a reconnaissance aircraft built in Germany during World War I. Design and development The (German) Av ...

, a 1915 German reconnaissance aircraft *

Blackburn B-2 The Blackburn B-2 was a biplane side-by-side trainer aircraft designed and produced by the British aviation manufacturer Blackburn Aircraft. It was designed as a successor to the Bluebird IV and was derived from it, thus the two aircraft sha ...

, a British biplane side-by-side trainer aircraft *

Brantly B-2 The Brantly B-2 is an American two-seat light helicopter produced by the Brantly Helicopter Corporation. Design and development After the failure of his first design, the Brantly B-1, Newby O. Brantly decided to design a simpler and less complic ...

, a helicopter *

Curtiss B-2 Condor The Curtiss B-2 Condor was a 1920s United States bomber aircraft. It was a descendant of the Martin NBS-1, which was built by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company for the Glenn L. Martin Company. There were a few differences, such as stron ...

, an American biplane bomber built before World War II * DFW B.II, a 1914 German aircraft * Euler B.II, a German Idflieg B-class designation aircraft *

Farman B.2 __NOTOC__ The Farman B.2 was a 1920s French biplane designed as a light day bomber. Only one was built. Development Farman Aviation Works designed and built in 1924 what was a bulky unequal span two-bay biplane for use as a day bomber. The pilo ...

, a French Farman aircraft * Flanders B.2, a 1912 British experimental biplane *

Fokker B.II (1916) __NOTOC__ The Fokker M 10 was a two-seater reconnaissance / trainer biplane with single-bay wings equipped with wing-warping controls for roll, powered by a 7-cylinder 80 hp Oberursel U.0 engine. Several M 10 aircraft were purchased by the ...

, two different German unarmed observation aircraft of World War I *

Fokker B.II (1923) The Fokker B.II was a prototype sesquiplane shipboard reconnaissance flying boat built in the Netherlands in 1923. Development It was a conventional flying boat with a duralumin hull and sesquiplane wings braced with N-struts. The tractor conf ...

, a 1923 Dutch reconnaissance flying boat * Halberstadt B.II, a German Idflieg B-class designation aircraft *

Lohner B.II The Lohner B.II (originally designated Type C) was a military reconnaissance aircraft produced in Austria-Hungary during World War I. It was a development of the pre-war B.I design, incorporating changes requested by the Austro-Hungarian army, b ...

LVG B.II The LVG B.I was a 1910s German two-seat reconnaissance biplane designed by Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft for the ''Luftstreitkräfte''. Development LVG had been involved in the operation of dirigibles before it started design, in 1912, of the comp ...

, a 1910s German two-seat reconnaissance biplane *

Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit The Northrop (later Northrop Grumman) B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low-observable stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses. A subsonic flying ...

, an American stealth bomber of the United States Air Force *

Avro Vulcan The Avro Vulcan (later Hawker Siddeley Vulcan from July 1963) is a jet-powered, tailless, delta-wing, high-altitude, strategic bomber, which was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1956 until 1984. Aircraft manufacturer A.V. Roe and ...

B2, the Mark 2 version of a Royal Air Force V-Bomber aircraft * Any Mark 2 bomber aircraft under the British military aircraft designation systems

Locomotives

* Alsace-Lorraine B 2, an

Alsace-Lorraine P 1 The Imperial German railways (''Reichseisenbahnen'') allocated various steam locomotives in Alsace-Lorraine to the P 1 class of engines as follows: ;Classification system from 1906/1912 *Alsace-Lorraine B 1 *Alsace-Lorraine B 2 *Alsace-Lorraine B 3 ...

class steam locomotive *

Bavarian B II Bavarian B IIs were steam locomotives with the Royal Bavarian State Railways (''Königlich Bayerische Staatsbahn''). They was delivered at the same time as the Bavarian A III, A III and had all the same construction features. They were equipped wi ...

, an 1851 German steam locomotive model * GS&WR Class B2, a

Great Southern and Western Railway The Great Southern and Western Railway (GS&WR) was an Irish gauge () railway company in Ireland from 1844 until 1924. The GS&WR grew by building lines and making a series of takeovers, until in the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was the ...

Irish steam locomotive *

LB&SCR B2 class The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) B2 class was a class of small 4-4-0 steam locomotives intended for express passenger work on the LB&SCR London to Portsmouth line. They were designed by R. J. Billinton and built at Bright ...

, a British LB&SCR locomotive class *

GCR Class 1 The GCR Class 1 was a class of steam locomotives designed by John G. Robinson for the Great Central Railway, and introduced to service between December 1912 and 1913. In the 1923 grouping, they all passed to the London and North Eastern Railway ...

, classified B2 during ownership, reclassified B19 in 1945 *

LNER Thompson Class B2 The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Thompson Class B2 was a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive. It was introduced in 1945 as a two-cylinder rebuild (with diagram 100A boiler) of the three-cylinder LNER Class B17. Ten were rebuilt from C ...

, a British class of 4-6-0 steam locomotives rebuilt from B17s *

NCC Class B2 NCC may refer to: Biology *Neural correlates of consciousness, neuronal events and mechanisms relating to perception phenomena *Sodium-chloride symporter, abbreviated as NCC Companies *National Certification Corporation, a nursing specialty cer ...

, a

Northern Counties Committee The Northern Counties Committee (NCC) was a railway that served the north-east of Ireland. It was built to Irish gauge () but later acquired a number of narrow gauge lines. It had its origins in the Belfast and Ballymena Railway that opened to ...

Irish steam locomotive

Submarines

* , an American B-class submarine of the US Navy * , one of eleven British B class submarines of the Royal Navy

Roads

Other transport

B2 (New York City bus) The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) operates a number of bus routes in Brooklyn, New York, United States; one minor route is privately operated under a city franchise. Many of them are the direct descendants of streetcar lines (see li ...

serving Brooklyn * Belavia Belarusian Airlines (IATA airline designator code B2) *

Marussia B2 The Marussia B-Series was a series of sports cars built by Russian automaker Marussia Motors (pronounced ma-rus-ya). The series consists of the B1 and the B2; the cars are very similar technically, but are very different in design. The two vehicles ...

, a high-performance luxury sports coupé built by Russian automaker Marussia Motors * Guangzhou Metro CSR-Zhuzhou Class B EMU, internal callsign B2 for the first batch

Computing

b2/cafelog WordPress (WP or WordPress.org) is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in hypertext preprocessor language and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database with supported HTTPS. Features include a plugin architecture ...

, the precursor to the WordPress blogging software *

B2evolution b2evolution is a content management system, content and community management system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. It is distributed as free software under the GNU General Public License. b2evolution originally started as a multi ...

, a multi-lingual, multi-user, multi-blog publishing system forked from b2/cafelog * B2, a subclass of security level B as defined by Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC) standards * B2, a cloud-based object storage service provided by

Backblaze Backblaze, Inc. is an American cloud storage and data backup company based in San Mateo, California. Founded in 2007 by Gleb Budman, Billy Ng, Nilay Patel, Brian Wilson, Tim Nufire, Damon Uyeda, and Casey Jones, its two main products are their ...

People and characters

* B2, the name of a character from the Dutch television series ''

Bassie en Adriaan Bassie & Adriaan was a television programme series focusing on the adventures and lives of a circus duo consisting of clown Bassie and acrobat Adriaan, played by real-life circus duo Bas and Aad van Toor. Written by Aad van Toor and originally p ...

'' * B-2 or B² (B squared), the stage name used by wrestler Barry Buchanan * B2, one of a pair of bananas featured in the children's television show '' Bananas in Pyjamas'' * Birch Bayh (Birch Evans Bayh II)

Visas

* South Korea B-2 visa, a tourist or transit visa granted by South Korea * United States B-2 visa, a non-immigrant visa granted by the United States of America

Biology

ATC code B02 B02A Antifibrinolytics B02AA Amino acids :B02AA01 Aminocaproic acid :B02AA02 Tranexamic acid :B02AA03 Aminomethylbenzoic acid B02AB Proteinase inhibitors :B02AB01 Aprotinin :B02AB02 Alfa1 antitrypsin :B02AB04 Camostat :B02AB05 Ulinastatin B0 ...

''Antihemorrhagics'', a subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System * Bradykinin receptor B₂, a human gene *

Proanthocyanidin B2 Procyanidin B2 is a B type proanthocyanidin. Its structure is (−)-Epicatechin-(4β→8)-(−)-epicatechin. Procyanidin B2 can be found in ''Cinchona pubescens'' (Chinchona: in the rind, bark, and cortex), in '' Cinnamomum verum'' (Ceylon cinnamo ...

, a B type proanthocyanidin * Thromboxane B2, an inactive metabolite/product of thromboxane A2 * Vitamin B₂

Other

* B2, a

postcode area The list of postcode areas in the United Kingdom is a tabulation of the postcode areas used by Royal Mail for the purposes of directing mail within the United Kingdom. The postcode area is the largest geographical unit used and forms the initial ...

in central Birmingham * B2 basketball league (Albania); see

Albanian Basketball League The Albanian Basketball League is the men's professional basketball league in Albania. It was founded in 1946 shortly after the formation of the Albanian Basketball Association and is now divided into two divisions, the Superliga and First Divi ...

* B2, an international standard paper size defined in

ISO 216 ISO 216 is an international standard for paper sizes, used around the world except in North America and parts of Latin America. The standard defines the "A", "B" and "C" series of paper sizes, including A4, the most commonly available paper size ...

measuring 500 mm × 707 mm * B2, a level in the

Common European Framework of Reference for Languages The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment, abbreviated in English as CEFR or CEF or CEFRL, is a guideline used to describe achievements of learners of foreign languages across Europe and, increasing ...

* B2, a code used by the land use planning system in the UK * B2 star, a subclass of bluish-white B-class stars * B02, Alekhine's Defence chess code * B2 dye, also known as

dyesol GreatCell Solar Limited () previously known as Dyesol, was a solar energy company developing perovskite solar cell 3rd generation thin-film solar cell technologies and materials. The company was previously focused on developing dye-sensitized solar ...

B2 (classification) B2 is a medical based Paralympic classification for blind sport. Competitors in this classification have vision that falls between the B1 and B3 classes. The International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) defines this classification as "visual a ...

, a Paralympic disability classification * Bi-2, a Russian rock band * B2 intermetallic compound with equal numbers of atoms of two metals * B2, an advanced model of battle droid in the Star Wars franchise * B2, a brand of Canadian retailer Browns Shoes