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International Civil Aviation Organization The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO, ) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates the principles and techniques of international air navigation, and fosters the planning and development of international sc ...

(ICAO)/common name. It contains the ICAO/common name, manufacturers name(s), country and other data, with the known years of operation in parentheses. The ICAO names are listed in bold. Having an ICAO name does not mean that a manufacturer is still in operation today. Just that some of the aircraft produced by that manufacturer are still flying.

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TAI Tai or TAI may refer to: Arts and entertainment *Tai (comics) a fictional Marvel Comics supervillain *Tai Fraiser, a fictional character in the 1995 film ''Clueless'' *Tai Kamiya, a fictional character in ''Digimon'' Businesses and organisations ...

, Turkish Aerospace Industries – Turkey *Taifun, Taifun Experimental Design Bureau – Russia *

Taiwan Dancer Taiwan Dancer Technology Co., Ltd. was a Taiwanese aircraft manufacturer based in Nangang Village, Dayuan District, Taoyuan City Taoyuan () is a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan) located in northwestern Taiwan, ...

, Nangang Village, Dayuan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan *

Tamarind Tamarind (''Tamarindus indica'') is a Legume, leguminous tree bearing edible fruit that is probably indigenous to tropical Africa. The genus ''Tamarindus'' is monotypic taxon, monotypic, meaning that it contains only this species. It belongs ...

, Tamarind International Ltd – United States * Tampier, Tampier – France * Taneja, Taneja Aerospace and Aviation Ltd – India * Tapanee, Tanapee Aviation Inc – Canada * Taylor (1), Taylor Aircraft Company – United States * Taylor (2), Moulton B. Taylor – United States * Taylor (3), C. Gilbert Taylor – United States *Taylor (3), Taylor Aero Inc – United States * Taylor (4), John F. Taylor – United Kingdom * Taylor Kits, Taylor Kits Corporation – United States * Taylorcraft (1), Taylorcraft Aircraft – United States *Taylorcraft (1), Taylorcraft Aviation Company – United States *Taylorcraft (1), Taylorcraft Aviation Corporation – United States *Taylorcraft (1), Taylorcraft Inc – United States * Taylorcraft (2), Taylorcraft Aeroplanes (England) Ltd – United Kingdom, (1938–1946) >

Auster Auster Aircraft Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer from 1938 to 1961.Willis, issue 122, p.55 History The company began in 1938 at the Britannia Works, Thurmaston near Leicester, England, as Taylorcraft Aeroplanes (England) Limited, ma ...

* Taylor-Young, Taylor-Young Airplane Company – United States * TBM, TBM Corporation – France/United States *TBM, TBM SA – France *

Teal alt=American teal duck (male), Green-winged teal (male) Teal is a greenish-blue colour. Its name comes from that of a bird — the Eurasian teal (''Anas crecca'') — which presents a similarly coloured stripe on its head. The word is ofte ...

, Teal Aircraft Corporation – United States *

Team Rocket A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal. As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, " team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to infor ...

, Team Rocket Inc – United States *

Team Tango Team Tango is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Williston, Florida and owned by Revolution Aviation Inc. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of light aircraft A light aircraft is an aircraft that has a maximum gr ...

, Revolution Aviation Inc., Williston, Florida, United States * Tech'aero, Tech'Aero – France * Technic'air, Belvès, France *

Technoavia SCF Technoavia, or Scientific Commercial Firm Technoavia, is a Russian aircraft manufacturer. It was established in 1991 by Vyacheslav Kondratiev. The main production facility is located at the Smolensk Aviation Plant. Products * Intracom GM ...

, Nauchno-Kommerchesky Firma Technoavia – Russia * Technoflug, Technoflug Leichtflugzeugbau GmbH – Germany *

Tecma Sport Tecma Sport is a French aircraft manufacturer based in Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny and formerly in La Roche-sur-Foron. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of hang gliders and paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft. The ...

, La Roche-sur-Foron, France *

Tecnam Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecnam is an Italian aeronautics manufacturer. It was founded in 1986. The company has two primary activities: producing aircraft components for various other manufacturers, and manufacturing its own range of light ai ...

, Costruzioni AeronauticheTecnam Srl – Italy * Ted Smith, Ted R. Smith & Associates – United States *Ted Smith, Ted Smith Aerostar Corporation – United States *Ted Smith, Ted Smith Aircraft Company Inc – United States *

Temco The Texas Engineering & Manufacturing Company (TEMCO), also known as Temco Aircraft Corporation, was a U.S.-based manufacturing company located in Dallas, Texas, USA. It is best known for eventually forming part of the conglomerate Ling-Temco-V ...

, Temco Aircraft Corporation – United States *Temco, Texas Engineering & Manufacturing Company Inc – United States *

Tennessee Valley The Tennessee Valley is the drainage basin of the Tennessee River and is largely within the U.S. state of Tennessee. It stretches from southwest Kentucky to north Alabama and from northeast Mississippi to the mountains of Virginia and North Car ...

, Tennessee Valley Aviation Products Ltd – United States *

Teratorn Aircraft Teratorn Aircraft, Inc. (named for the extinct ice age soaring bird) was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Clear Lake, Iowa. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form of kits for amate ...

, Clear Lake, Iowa, United States * Terr-Mar, Terr-Mar Aviation Corporation – Canada * Terzi, Terzi Aerodine – Italy *

Texas Airplane Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by bo ...

, Texas Airplane Factory – United States * Texas Helicopter, Texas Helicopter Corporation – United States * Thomas-Martin, Thomas-Martin – Unknown *

Thaden Metal Aircraft Company The Thaden Metal Aircraft Company was an American aircraft manufacturer based in San Francisco, California in the late 1920s. History The company was founded by Herbert von Thaden in 1928 to design and build a series of all-metal cabin monoplanes. ...

, United States * The Airplane Factory, Tedderfield Airpark, Eikenhof, Johannesburg South, South Africa *

Theiss Aviation Theiss UAV Solutions, formerly known as Theiss Aviation, is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Salem, Ohio. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of unmanned aerial vehicles and at one time produced ultralight aircraft ...

, Salem, Ohio, United States *

Thorp ''Thorp'' is a Middle English word for a hamlet or small village. Etymology The name can either come from Old Norse ''þorp'' (also ''thorp''), or from Old English (Anglo-Saxon) ''þrop''. There are many place names in England with the suffi ...

, John W. Thorp – United States *Thorp, Thorp 211 Aircraft Company Inc – United States *Thorp, Thorp Aero Inc – United States *Thorp, Thorp Aircraft – United States *Thorp, Thorp Engineering Company – United States * Thrush, Thrush Aircraft Inc – United States *

Thruster Air Services Thruster Air Services was a British aircraft manufacturer based in Langworth, Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the ...

, Langworth, Lincoln, England, United Kingdom * Thunder Wings, Thunder Wings, Division of Thunder Development Inc – United States * Thurston, Thurston Aeromarine Corporation – United States *Thurston, Thurston Aircraft Corporation – United States *

Tiger The tiger (''Panthera tigris'') is the largest living cat species and a member of the genus '' Panthera''. It is most recognisable for its dark vertical stripes on orange fur with a white underside. An apex predator, it primarily preys on u ...

, Tiger Aircraft LLC – United States *

Time to Fly Sea of Green were a Canadian rock band based in Toronto. The group combined elements of metal and psychedelia into their sound, which, because of obvious drug references in many of their lyrics, Sea of Green is often classified as stoner rock ...

, Kaunas, Lithuania *

Time Warp Time travel is a common theme in fiction, mainly since the late 19th century, and has been depicted in a variety of media, such as literature, television, film, and advertisements. The concept of time travel by mechanical means was popularize ...

, Time Warp Aircraft Inc – United States * Tipsy, Ernest Oscar Tips – Belgium * Titan, Titan Aircraft Company – United States * TM Aircraft, TM Aircraft – United States *

TNCA The Talleres Nacionales de Construcciones Aeronáuticas (TNCA) (national aviation workshops) was an aircraft manufacturer established outside Mexico City in 1915. TNCA closed in 1930, was briefly revived in 1941 under the name ''Talleres Generales ...

, ''Talleres Nacionales de Construcciones Aeronáuticas'' – Mexico * Tomark, Tomark s.r.o., Prešov, Slovakia *

Toyota is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. It was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda and incorporated on . Toyota is one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world, producing about 10 ...

, Toyota Motor Corporation – Japan * Tradewind Turbines, Tradewind Turbines Corporation – United States * Trago Mills, Trago Mills – United Kingdom *

Transall Transall (''Transport Allianz'') was a consortium created to design and manufacture the Transall C-160 military transport aircraft. Established in 1959, the company was initially a joint venture between Nord Aviation of France and Weser Flugzeu ...

, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Transall – Germany/France *

Transavia Corporation Transavia Corporation was an Australian aircraft manufacturer active between 1965 and 1985. Formation Transavia Corporation was formed in 1965, as a subsidiary of Transfield to produce agricultural aircraft. The initial design of the Airtruc ...

, Transavia Corporation Pty Ltd – Australia *Transavia, Transavia Division of Transfield (NSW) Pty Ltd – Australia * Trans-Florida, Trans Florida Aviation – United States, >

Cavalier Aircraft Cavalier Aircraft Corporation was a Sarasota, Florida, aircraft manufacturing, sales, and maintenance company whose most famous products were refurbished P-51D Mustangs known as " Cavalier Mustangs." Origins The company was originally formed in 195 ...

Travel Air The Travel Air Manufacturing Company was an aircraft manufacturer established in Wichita, Kansas, United States in January 1925 by Clyde Cessna, Walter Beech, and Lloyd Stearman. History The company initially built a series of sporting and tr ...

, Travel Air Company – United States, (1924–1931) > Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Corporation *Travel Air, Travel Air Manufacturing Company Inc – United States * Trecker, Trecker Aircraft Corporation – United States *

Trekking Parapentes Trekking sarl is a French aircraft manufacturer based in Lambesc. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of paragliders and paramotor wings in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft. The company also produces four-wheel drive truck te ...

, Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers, France * Triavio, (Triavio SRL), Catania, Italy * Tridair, Tridair Helicopters Inc – United States *

Trident A trident is a three- pronged spear. It is used for spear fishing and historically as a polearm. The trident is the weapon of Poseidon, or Neptune, the God of the Sea in classical mythology. The trident may occasionally be held by other marine ...

, Trident Aircraft Ltd – Canada * Trio-Twister, Eichwalde, Germany * TRI-R, Tri-R Technologies Inc – United States *

Triumph The Roman triumph (Latin triumphus) was a celebration for a victorious military commander in ancient Rome. For later imitations, in life or in art, see Trionfo. Numerous later uses of the term, up to the present, are derived directly or indirectl ...

, Triumph Group Inc – United States *

Trixy Aviation Products GmbH Trixy Aviation Products GmbH is an Austrian aircraft manufacturer based in Dornbirn, that was founded by Rainer Farrag. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of autogyros.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Director ...

, Dornbirn, Austria *

Tucker Tucker may refer to: Places United States * Tucker, Arkansas * Tucker, Georgia * Tucker, Mississippi * Tucker, Missouri * Tucker, Utah, ghost town * Tucker County, West Virginia Outer space * Tucker (crater), a small lunar impact crater in the s ...

, Tucker Aviation Company – United States *

Tugan Aircraft Tugan Aircraft Ltd. was an Australian aircraft manufacturer of the 1930s. It was based at Mascot aerodrome, now Sydney Airport. It is best known for having manufactured the Gannet, the first Australian-designed aircraft to enter series productio ...

, Tugan Aircraft Company Limited – Australia, (?-1936) >

Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) was an Australian aircraft manufacturer. The CAC was established in 1936, to provide Australia with the capability to produce military aircraft and engines. History In 1935 the Chief General Manager ...

Tupolev Tupolev (russian: Ту́полев, ), officially Joint Stock Company Tupolev, is a Russian aerospace and defence company headquartered in Basmanny District, Moscow. Tupolev is successor to the Soviet Tupolev Design Bureau (OKB-156, design off ...

, Aviatsionny Nauchno-Tekhnishesky Kompleks Imeni A N Tupoleva OAO – Russia *Tupolev, Tupolev OKB – Russia * Turbine Design, Turbine Design Inc – United States *

Turner Turner may refer to: People and fictional characters *Turner (surname), a common surname, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Turner (given name), a list of people with the given name *One who uses a lathe for turni ...

, E. L. Turner – United States *

TUSAS Turkish Aerospace Inc. ( tr, Türk Havacılık ve Uzay Sanayi A.Ş., TUSAŞ) is the center of technology in design, development, manufacturing, integration of aerospace systems, modernization and after sales support in Turkey. Located in Ankara ...

, TUSAS Aerospace Industries Inc – Turkey *TUSAS, TUSAS Havacilik ve Uzay Sanayi AS – Turkey * TUSCO, Tulsa Manufacturing Corporation – United States *

TWI Twi () is a dialect of the Akan language spoken in southern and central Ghana by several million people, mainly of the Akan people, the largest of the seventeen major ethnic groups in Ghana. Twi has about 17-18 million speakers in total, includ ...

, TWI Flugzeuggesellschaft mbH – Germany

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* Udet, Udet-Flugzeugbau GmbH – Germany * Uetz, Walter Uetz Flugzeugbau – Switzerland *

UL-Jih UL-Jih sro, also known as UL-Jih Sedláček Spol s.r.o. and Sedláček UL-JIH, is a Czech aircraft manufacturer based in Kaplice, founded by Jaroslav Sedláček in 1990. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft ...

, Kaplice, Czech Republic *

UFO An unidentified flying object (UFO), more recently renamed by US officials as a UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon), is any perceived aerial phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained. On investigation, most UFOs are id ...

, Ultimate Flying Object Inc – New Zealand *

Ullmann Ullmann is a German surname also associated with Jewish Europeans. It means "man from Ulm". Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander de Erény Ullmann (1850–1897), Hungarian deputy and political economist * Andrew Ullmann (born 1963) ...

, Ullmann Aircraft Company – United States *

Ultimate Ultimate or Ultimates may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Music Albums * ''Ultimate'' (Jolin Tsai album) * ''Ultimate'' (Pet Shop Boys album) *''Ultimate!'', an album by The Yardbirds *''The Ultimate (Bryan Adams Album)'', a compilatio ...

, Ultimate Aircraft Division of Ultimate Aerobatics Ltd – Canada * Ultravia, Ultravia Aero International Inc – Canada * Umbaugh, Umbaugh Aircraft Corporation – United States *

Umbra The umbra, penumbra and antumbra are three distinct parts of a shadow, created by any light source after impinging on an opaque object. Assuming no diffraction, for a collimated beam (such as a point source) of light, only the umbra is cast. Th ...

, Aeronautica Umbra – Italy * UNC, UNC Helicopter – United States * Unikomtranso, Unikomtranso AO – Russia *

Unis UNIS or Unis may refer to: *Union of Nigerien Independents and Sympathisers, a defunct political party in Niger *Unis, a new religious movement founded in the 1960s, based on the teachings of George Gurdjieff *UniS, the corporate logo of the Univer ...

, Unis Obchodni spol sro – Czech Republic *

United Canada The Province of Canada (or the United Province of Canada or the United Canadas) was a British colony in North America from 1841 to 1867. Its formation reflected recommendations made by John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, in the Report on the ...

, United Aircraft of Canada – Canada *

United Aircraft Corporation The PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) () is a Russian Aerospace manufacturer, aerospace and Arms industry, defense corporation. With a majority stake belonging to the Russian government, it consolidates Russian private and state-owned Russian ...

, United Aircraft Corporation – Russia * United Consultant, United Consultant Corporation – United States *

UP International GmbH UP International GmbH is a German aircraft manufacturer based in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft. The company started business as a hang glider ma ...

, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, formerly known as UP Europe, UP Products and Ultralite Products *

Urban Urban means "related to a city". In that sense, the term may refer to: * Urban area, geographical area distinct from rural areas * Urban culture, the culture of towns and cities Urban may also refer to: General * Urban (name), a list of people ...

, Urban Air sro – Czech Republic * Utilicraft Aerospace Industries, Utilicraft Aerospace Industries – United States *

U-Turn GmbH U-Turn GmbH is a German aircraft manufacturer originally based in Villingen-Schwenningen and later in Tuningen. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft, particularly for aerobat ...

, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany *

UTVA Utva Aviation Industry (commonly known as UTVA) is a Serbian manufacturer of general aviation aircraft, subsidiary of Yugoimport SDPR, headquartered in Pančevo. History Utva was founded on 5 June 1937 in Zemun, since 1940 located in Pančev ...

, UTVA Fabrika Aviona – Yugoslavia, (1937–Present) *UTVA, UTVA-Sour Metalne Industrije, RO Fabrika Aviona – Yugoslavia

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* Valentin, Valentin Flugzeugbau GmbH – Germany * Valladeau, Valladeau – France *

Valmet Valmet Oyj is a Finnish company and a developer and supplier of technologies, automation systems and services for the pulp (paper), pulp, paper and energy industry, energy industries. Valmet has over 200 years of history as an industrial oper ...

, Valmet Aviation Industries – Finland *Valmet, Valmet OY, Kuoreveden Tehdas (Kuorevesi Works) – Kuorevesi, Finland *Valmet, Valmet OY, Lentokonetehdas (Aircraft Factory) – Tampere, Finland *Valtion Lentokonetehdas (VL; Government Aircraft Factory) – Helsinki and Tampere, Finland *Valtion Metallitehtaat (VMT; Government Metal Factories) – Finland * Vancil, Belton, South Carolina, United States * Van's, Van's Aircraft Inc – United States * Vardax, Vardax Corporation – United States * Varga, Varga Aircraft Corporation – United States *

VAT A value-added tax (VAT), known in some countries as a goods and services tax (GST), is a type of tax that is assessed incrementally. It is levied on the price of a product or service at each stage of production, distribution, or sale to the en ...

, Vertical Aviation Technologies Inc – United States * VEB, Vereinigung Volkseigener Betriebe Flugzeugbau Dresden – Germany * VEF, Valsts Elektrotehniska Fabrika – Latvia, (State Electrotechnical Plant) * Veljekset Karhumaki, Veljekset Karhumaki OY – Finland *

Velocity Velocity is the directional speed of an object in motion as an indication of its rate of change in position as observed from a particular frame of reference and as measured by a particular standard of time (e.g. northbound). Velocity is a ...

, Velocity Inc – United States *

Venture Venture may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music *The Ventures, an American instrumental rock band formed in 1958 *"A Venture", 1971 song by the band Yes *''Venture'', a 2010 EP by AJR Games * ''Venture'' (video game), a 1981 arcade gam ...

, Venture Light Aircraft Resources LLC – United States * Verilite, Verilite Aircraft Company Inc – United States *

Vertol Piasecki Helicopter Corporation was a designer and manufacturer of helicopters located in Philadelphia and nearby Morton, Pennsylvania, in the late 1940s and the 1950s. Its founder, Frank Piasecki, was ousted from the company in 1956 and start ...

, Vertol Aircraft Company – United States, (1956–1960) >

Boeing The Boeing Company () is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, telecommunications equipment, and missiles worldwide. The company also provides leasing and product ...

VFW The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), formally the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, is an organization of US war veterans, who, as United States Armed Forces, military service members fought in wars, Military campaign, campaigns, ...

, Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke GmbH – Germany *

Verville Aircraft Verville is a French and French Canadian surname which could mean: # ''towards the town'', from the French words ', meaning "towards", and ', meaning "town"; or # ''green town'', from the French ', meaning "green", and ', meaning "town". It can a ...

– United States *

, VFW-Fokker GmbH – Germany *

Vickers Vickers was a British engineering company that existed from 1828 until 1999. It was formed in Sheffield as a steel foundry by Edward Vickers and his father-in-law, and soon became famous for casting church bells. The company went public in 18 ...

, Vickers (Aviation) Ltd – United Kingdom *Vickers, Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd – United Kingdom * Vickers-Slingsby, Vickers-Slingsby Division of Vickers Ltd Offshore Engineering Group – United Kingdom *

Victa Victa is an Australian manufacturer of outdoor garden equipment, including petrol and electric lawn mowers, edgers, trimmers, and chainsaws. They manufacture these in petrol & lithium-ion powered variants. However, Victa remains most well known fo ...

, Victa Ltd – Australia *

Victory Aircraft Victory Aircraft Limited was a Canadian manufacturing company that, during the Second World War, built mainly British-designed aircraft under licence. It acted as a shadow factory, safe from the reach of German bombers. Initially the major war ...

, Victory Aircraft Company – Canada, (?-1945) >

Avro Canada Avro Canada was a Canadian aircraft manufacturing company. It was founded in 1945 as an aircraft plant and within 13 years became the third-largest company in Canada, one of the largest 100 companies in the world, and directly employing over 5 ...

Vidor Vidor is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Treviso, Veneto, north-eastern Italy. Twin towns Vidor is twinned with: * Petritoli Petritoli is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Fermo in the Italian region Marche, located ab ...

Giuseppe Vidor Asso Aerei Srl ( en, Ace Aircraft Limited) is an Italian designer of light and ultralight aircraft founded by Giuseppe (Bepi) Vidor. Vidor (died 23 September 2013 aged 72) was a carpenter who studied engineering at night school, and all his aircraf ...

– Italy *

Viking Air Viking Air Ltd. is a manufacturer of aircraft, as well as aircraft parts and systems, based at Victoria International Airport in North Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The company produces new versions of the DHC-6 Twin Otter, upgraded versi ...

, North Saanich, British Columbia, Canada * Viking Aircraft Inc, Panama City Beach, Florida, United States *

Viking Aircraft LLC Viking Aircraft LLC is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. The company specializes in the provision of homebuilt aircraft plans for amateur construction.Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fi ...

, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, United States *

Viking Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...

, Viking Aircraft Ltd – United States *

Viper The Viperidae (vipers) are a family of snakes found in most parts of the world, except for Antarctica, Australia, Hawaii, Madagascar, and various other isolated islands. They are venomous and have long (relative to non-vipers), hinged fangs tha ...

, Viper Aircraft Corporation – United States *

Visionaire The VisionAire VA-10 Vantage is a prototype single-engined light business-jet (or "very light jet") designed and developed by the American company VisionAire Jets Corporation. Originally planned for production in the late 1990s, the original Visio ...

, VisionAire Corporation – United States *

Vitek Vitek, Vítek or Vítková may refer to: People with the surname Vítek, feminine Vítková, is a Czech surname. Notable bearers include: * Jack Vitek, American educator * Jaroslav Vítek, Czech athlete * John Vitek (1907–1989), American pol ...

, Kompaniya Vitek – Russia *

Voisin Voisin (French for "neighbour") may refer to: Companies *Avions Voisin, the French automobile company :*Voisin Laboratoire, a car manufactured by Avions Voisin *Voisin (aircraft), the French aircraft manufacturer * Voisin, a Lyon-based chocolat ...

, Appareils d'Aviation Les Frères Voisin – France, (Les Frères Voisin) *

Volaircraft Volaircraft Inc was a US aircraft manufacturer established in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania in 1958 by Jack Gilberti to produce a light utility aircraft, known as the Volaire. The firm and the rights to its aircraft were purchased by North American Roc ...

, Volaircraft Inc – United States * Volmer, Volmer Aircraft – United States *Volmer, Volmer Jensen – United States * Volpar, Volpar Inc – United States * Vortech, Inc., Fallston, Maryland, United States *

Vought Vought was the name of several related American aerospace firms. These have included, in the past, Lewis and Vought Corporation, Chance Vought, Vought-Sikorsky, LTV Aerospace (part of Ling-Temco-Vought), Vought Aircraft Companies, and Vought Ai ...

, Vought Aircraft Company – United States, (1961–1976) *Vought, Vought Corporation – United States * Vought-Sikorsky, Vought-Sikorsky Division of United Aircraft – United States * VSR, VSR – United States *

VSTOL A vertical and/or short take-off and landing (V/STOL) aircraft is an airplane able to take-off or land vertically or on short runways. Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft are a subset of V/STOL craft that do not require runways at al ...

, V-STOL Aircraft Corporation – United States *

VTOL Aircraft A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is one that can take off and land vertically without relying on a runway. This classification can include a variety of types of aircraft including helicopters as well as thrust-vectoring fixed-win ...

, VTOL Aircraft Pty Ltd – Australia * Vulcan Motor and Engineering, Vulcan Motor and Engineering Company Ltd. – United Kingdom *

VulcanAir Vulcanair is an Italian aircraft manufacturer based in Casoria, near Naples. History Partenavia was established in 1957 by Prof. Luigi Pascale and produced a quite large family of single-engined sport aircraft which eventually culminated with ...

, VulcanAir SpA – Italy *

Vultee The Vultee Aircraft Corporation became an independent company in 1939 in Los Angeles County, California. It had limited success before merging with the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation in 1943, to form the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporatio ...

, Vultee Aircraft Division of Avco – United States, (?-1943) >

Convair Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was formed in 1943 by the merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft. In 1953, it ...

*Vultee, Vultee Aircraft Inc – United States

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WACO Waco ( ) is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is situated along the Brazos River and I-35, halfway between Dallas and Austin. The city had a 2020 population of 138,486, making it the 22nd-most populous city in the st ...

, Weaver Aircraft Company – United States *

Waco Waco ( ) is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is situated along the Brazos River and I-35, halfway between Dallas and Austin. The city had a 2020 population of 138,486, making it the 22nd-most populous city in the st ...

, Advance Aircraft Company – United States *

, Waco Aircraft Company – United States *

WACO Classic Aircraft The WACO Classic Aircraft Corporation is an American Aerospace manufacturer, aircraft manufacturer, located in Battle Creek, Michigan. It was founded in 1983 as the Classic Aircraft Corporation and is now called the WACO Aircraft Corporation. ...

, Waco Classic Aircraft Corporation – United States * Wagaero, WagAero Inc, Lyons, Wisconsin, United States * Walkerjet, Třemošná, Czech Republic * Wallerkowski, Heinz Wallerkowski – Germany *

WAR War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular o ...

, War Aircraft Replicas – United States *WAR, War Aircraft Replicas International Inc – United States * Warner (1), Richard Warner Aviation Inc – United States *

Warner Aircraft Corporation The Warner Aircraft Corporation of Detroit, Michigan was the manufacturer of the Scarab family of radial engines for airplanes in 1928 through the early 1930s. History The original name of the company was Aeronautical Industries Incorporated. In ...

(c1930s) – United States *

Warner Aerocraft The Warner Aerocraft Company is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Seminole, Florida. In the past the company specialized in the design and manufacture of light aircraft in the form of plans and kits for amateur construction, but in r ...

, United States * Wasp Systems, later Wasp Flight Systems, Crook, Cumbria, United Kingdom *

Wassmer Wassmer was a French specialized woodworking company formed by Bernard Wassmer in 1905. It later became an aircraft manufacturer specializing in gliders. It was bought out by Issoire Aviation, a subsidiary of Siren, in 1978. Aircraft production ...

, Société des Etablissements Benjamin Wassmer – France *Wassmer, Wassmer Aviation SA – France *

Watanabe Watanabe ( and other variantsSee #Miscellaneous) is a Japanese surname derived from the noble and samurai Watanabe clan, a branch of the Minamoto clan, descending from the Emperor Saga (786-842), the 52nd Emperor of Japan, and refers to a loca ...

, Watanabe Aircraft Plant – Japan, >

Kyūshū is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surround ...

* Watson, Gary Watson – United States * Weatherly, Weatherly Aviation Company Inc – United States * Wedell-Williams, Wedell-Williams Air Service Corporation – United States *

Weir A weir or low head dam is a barrier across the width of a river that alters the flow characteristics of water and usually results in a change in the height of the river level. Weirs are also used to control the flow of water for outlets of l ...

, G. and J. Weir – United Kingdom *

Wendt Wendt is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Wendt (born 1939), Samoan poet in New Zealand * Alexander Wendt (born 1958), American political scientist * Amadeus Wendt (1783–1836), German philosopher and music theo ...

, Wendt Aircraft Engineering – United States * Werft Warnemünde, Werft Warnemünde – Germany, (1917–1925) > Arado *

Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH, known as Weserflug, was an aircraft manufacturing company in Germany. History The company was founded in 1934 as a subsidiary of the ship and machine company Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG (DESCHIMAG). It began prod ...

, Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH – Germany, (Weserflug) *

West Australian Airways West Australian Airways was an Australian airline based in Geraldton, Western Australia. Established on 5 December 1921 as Western Australian Airways by World War I pilot Norman Brearley, it was the first airline in Australia to establish a sche ...

, West Australian Airways – Australia *

Western Western may refer to: Places *Western, Nebraska, a village in the US *Western, New York, a town in the US *Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western world, countries that id ...

, Western Aircraft Supplies – Canada *

Westland Westland or Westlands may refer to: Places *Westlands, an affluent neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi, Kenya * Westlands, Staffordshire, a suburban area and ward in Newcastle-under-Lyme *Westland, a peninsula of the Shetland Mainland near Vaila ...

, GKN Westland Helicopters Ltd – United Kingdom *Westland, Westland Aircraft Ltd – United Kingdom *Westland, Westland Helicopters Ltd – United Kingdom * Weymann-Lepere, Weymann-Lepere (Societe des Avions) – France * Whatley, Vascoe Whatley Jr – United States *

Wheeler Wheeler may refer to: Places United States * Wheeler, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Wheeler, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Wheeler, California, an unincorporated community * Wheeler, Illinois, a village * Wheeler, Indiana, a ...

, Wheeler Aircraft Company – United States *Wheeler, Wheeler Technology Inc – United States *

White White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on ...

, E. Marshall White – United States * White Lightning, White Lightning Aircraft Corporation – United States * Whittlesey Body, Whittlesey Body Co. Inc. – United States * Wilden, Helmut Wilden – Germany *

Wills Wing Wills Wing, Inc. (legally Sport Kites, Inc) is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Orange, California and previously located in Santa Ana, California. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of hang gliders in the form of r ...

, Santa Ana, California, United States * Windecker, Windecker Industries Inc – United States * Windexair, Windexair AB – Sweden * Winds Italia, Bologna, Italy * Windspire Inc., Long Green, Maryland, United States *

Windtech Parapentes Windtech Parapentes ( en, Windtech Paragliders, italic=yes) is a Spanish aircraft manufacturer based in Gijón and founded in 1994. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft, as we ...

, Gijón, Spain * Windward Performance, Windward Performance – United States * Wing Aeronautical Solutions, Wing Aeronautical Solutions – Portugal *

Wing A wing is a type of fin that produces lift while moving through air or some other fluid. Accordingly, wings have streamlined cross-sections that are subject to aerodynamic forces and act as airfoils. A wing's aerodynamic efficiency is expres ...

, Wing Aircraft Company – United States * Wings of Change, Fulpmes, Austria *

Wings Of Freedom Wings Of Freedom, Inc. was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Hubbard, Ohio. The company was previously located in Middlefield, Ohio. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form of plans and ...

, Hubbard, Ohio, United States * Wingtip To Wingtip, Wingtip to Wingtip LLC – United States * Witteman-Lewis, Witteman-Lewis Aircraft Company- United States * Wittman, Steve J. Wittman – United States *

Wolf The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, and gray wolves, as popularly u ...

, Donald S. Wolf – United States * Wolfsberg, Wolfsberg Aircraft Corporation NV – Belgium *Wolfsberg, Wolfsberg-Evektor SRO – Czech Republic *Wolfsberg, Wolfsberg Letecká továrna SRO – Czech Republic * Wombat Gyrocopters, St Columb, Cornwall, United Kingdom * Woods, H. L. Woods – United States * Worldwide Ultralite Industries, United States *

Wren Wrens are a family of brown passerine birds in the predominantly New World family Troglodytidae. The family includes 88 species divided into 19 genera. Only the Eurasian wren occurs in the Old World, where, in Anglophone regions, it is commonly ...

, Wren Aircraft Corporation – United States *

Wright Aeronautical Wright Aeronautical (1919–1929) was an American aircraft manufacturer headquartered in Paterson, New Jersey. It was the successor corporation to Wright-Martin. It built aircraft and was a supplier of aircraft engines to other builders in the g ...

, Wright Aeronautical – United States, (1919–1929) *

Wright Company The Wright Company was the commercial aviation business venture of the Wright Brothers, established by them on November 22, 1909, in conjunction with several prominent industrialists from New York and Detroit with the intention of capitalizing o ...

, Wright Company – United States, (1909–1916) *

Wright-Martin Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation was a short-lived aircraft manufacturing business venture between the Wright Company (after Orville Wright sold the Wright Company and divested himself from it) and Glenn L. Martin. History Company official ...

, Wright-Martin – United States, (1916–1919) * WRM Motors of Oxford, WRM Motors of Oxford – United Kingdom, (William Richard Morris) * Wrobel, Gerard Wrobel, Beynes, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France * WSK, Wytwórnia Sprzetu Komunikacyjnego – Poland *

Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei, Hubei Province in the China, People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the List of cities in China ...

, Wuhan Helicopter General Aviation Corporation – China * Wüst, Wüst GmbH – Germany * Wytwórnia i Naprawa Konstrukcji Lekkich (''Wytwórnia i Naprawa Konstrukcji Lekkich'') – Poland, (1996–1999) * WZL 3, Wojskowe Zaklady Lotnicze Nr. 3 – Poland

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Xian Xi'an ( , ; ; Chinese: ), frequently spelled as Xian and also known by other names, is the capital of Shaanxi Province. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong Plain, the city is the third most populous city in Western China, after Chongqin ...

, Xian Aircraft Company – China *

Xplorer UltraFlight Xplorer UltraFlight is a South African aircraft manufacturer based in Cape Town and founded by Keith Pickersgill. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of paramotors in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the US FAR 103 Ultral ...

, Cape Town, South Africa *

XtremeAir XtremeAir GmbH was a Chinese aircraft manufacturer based in Cochstedt, Germany that was founded by Harro Moewes in December 2005. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of aerobatic aircraft in the form of type certificate, type ...

, Cochstedt, Germany

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Yakovlev The JSC A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau (russian: ОАО Опытно-конструкторское бюро им. А.С. Яковлева) is a Russian aircraft designer and manufacturer (design office prefix Yak). Its head office is in Aeroport D ...

, Moskovskii Mashinostroitelnyy Zavod "Skorost" Imeni A. S. Yakovleva – Russia *Yakovlev, Opytno-Konstruktorskoye Byuro Imeni A S Yakovleva OAO – Russia *Yakovlev, Yakovlev Aviatsionnoye Korporatsiya OAO – Russia *Yakovlev, Yakovlev OKB – Russia *

Yalo Yalo ( ar, يالو, also transliterated Yalu) was a Palestinian Arab village located 13 kilometres southeast of Ramla. Identified by Edward Robinson as the ancient Canaanite and Israelite city of Aijalon.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp8081 Du ...

, Zaklad Naprawy i Budowy Sprzetu Latajacego Yalo SC – Poland *

Yokosuka Naval Arsenal was one of four principal naval shipyards owned and operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy, and was located at Yokosuka, Kanagawa prefecture on Tokyo Bay, south of Yokohama. History In 1866, the Tokugawa shogunate government established the ...

, Yokosuka Naval Arsenal – Japan, (aka First Naval Air Technical Arsenal)

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Zenair Zenair Ltd is a Canadian kit aircraft producer founded by aeronautical engineer Chris Heintz and based in Midland, Ontario. History The company was founded in 1974 when Heintz started to manufacture Zenith kits from his two-car garage. ...

, Zenair Ltd – Canada *

Zenith The zenith (, ) is an imaginary point directly "above" a particular location, on the celestial sphere. "Above" means in the vertical direction (plumb line) opposite to the gravity direction at that location (nadir). The zenith is the "highest" ...

, Zénith Aircraft Company – United States * Zero Gravity Paragliders, JM International Company Limited, Seoul, South Korea *

ZLIN Aircraft Zlin Aircraft a.s. (former well known name Moravan Otrokovice) is a Czech aircraft company. It is located at the Zlín Airfield on the outskirts of Otrokovice. It is known for the line of Z-26 Trener and other small aircraft like crop-dusting ...

, ZLIN Aircraft a.s. – Czech Republic * Zivko, Zivko Aeronautics Inc – United States *

Zlin Aviation Zlin Aircraft a.s. (former well known name Moravan Otrokovice) is a Czech Republic, Czech aircraft company. It is located at the Zlín Airfield on the outskirts of Otrokovice. It is known for the line of Zlín Z 26, Z-26 Trener and other small ai ...

, Zlin Aviation s.r.o. – Czech Republic * Zmaj, Fabrika aviona Zmaj – Yugoslavia

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