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This is a collection of useful resources for researching aviation related articles. With the exception of those listed in the "Questionable sources" section, these sources should pass WP:RS. If any editor wishes to question the reliability of a particular source, please bring the issue up on the talk page.
Editors can request access to specific articles or books or information on a specific topic at Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request.
General aviation topics
editCountry specific
edit- Belgian Wings, civil and military aviation in Belgium.
- Aeronautical Information Manual - Canada
- Aviation Glossary - Canada
- Nav Canada Publications, AIP, NOTAM manual, Airport Charts, etc.
- Transport Canada Listing of Accepted Advanced Ultralights
- Sauter, John. Atlas Historique des terrains d'aviation en France 1919-1947 (CD-ROM) (in French). Direction Générale de l'Aviation Civile. ISBN 2-11-095385-3. - An atlas of French airfields from 1919-47.
- Aeronautical Information Manual - USA
- EAA List of Experimental Light-Sport Aircraft (E-LSA)
- EAA List of Special Light-Sport Aircraft (S-LSA)
Worldwide
edit- Aircraft Engine Historical Society - Engine Locator
- Airways Magazine - A Global Review of Commercial Flight since 1994
- Aviation Week magazine
- Aviation Week archives - 100 years of archives (1916-2016)
- AvWeb Weekly aviation news service
- Cross and Cockade International - Early C20th aviation up to 1920.
- Flightglobal - Most items are subscription only. However, some issues (particularly up to 1935) are available on the Internet Archive. [1]
- L'Aéronautique (1919-1940, in French)
- L'Aérophile (1893-1947, in French)
- Les Ailes (1921-1940, in French)
- L'année Aéronautique (1919-1938, in French)
- flightmapper.net - lists flights per airport and airline.
- The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage - a listing of airfoils used on aircraft
- Eurocontrol Designators for Aircraft Operating Agencies, Aeronautical Authorities and Services - a reliable source for ICAO airline codes and callsigns
- ICAO Aircraft Type Designators - official ICAO type designator information
- Sailplane Directory
- Speitel, Louise; Hill, Richard G.; FAA Technical Center. "Study of Benefits of Passenger Protective Breathing Equipment from Analysis of Past Accidents" March 1988 - analysis of accidents involving fire 1966-86
Aircraft registration databases
editCurrent
edit- Canada - current & historical (1982-)
- France
- Singapore
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom - current & historical (1919-)
- United States - current & historical (1949-, i.e. excludes NCxxxxx etc)
- Global Aircraft Registration and Airlines-Aircraft Operators Database Lookup
Historic
edit- Golden Years of Aviation (Worldwide, 1919-39)
- sr692.com, a complete listing of all Swissair aircraft.
Military
edit- UK Serials Resource Centre - amateur site for UK military aircraft serials
Aircrashes
edit- Investigations of Aircraft Accidents 1934-1965 - Civil Aeronautics Board
- The Aviation Herald
- Aviacrash website (in Dutch) Accidents involving Dutch-registered airliners.
- The Aviation Safety Network
- The Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre
Investigating bodies
editThese bodies are responsible for the investigation of accidents and incidents involving civil aircraft.
- Argentina: JIAAC {{in lang|es: Junta de Investigaciones de Accidentes de Aviación Civil
- Australia: ATSB - Australian Transport Safety Bureau
- Austria: BAV Bundesanstalt für Verkehr
- Azerbaijan: SCAA State Civil Aviation Administration (Azerbaijan)
- Barbados: BCAD - Barbados Civil Aviation Department
- Brazil: CENIPA - Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center
- Canada: TSB - Transportation Safety Board of Canada
- Chile: DGAC {{in lang|es: - Directorate General of Civil Aviation
- Colombia: UAEAC {{in lang|es: - Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeronáutica Civil
- CIS: MAK {{in lang|ru: - Interstate Aviation Committee. Covers most former Soviet Union states.
- Cuba: IACC {{in lang|es: - Instituto de Aeronáutica Civil de Cuba
- Czech Republic: AAII - Air Accidents Investigation Institute
- Congo (Republic of): ANAC {{in lang|fr: Agence Nationale de l'Aviation Civile du Congo
- Congo (Democratic Republic): Bureau Permanent d’Enquêtes d’Accidents et Incidents d’Aviation
- Denmark: AIB -Accident Investigation Board Denmark
- El Salvador: DIAI {{in lang|es: - Departamento de Investigación de Accidentes e Incidentes
- Ecuador: DAC {{in lang|es: - Dirección General de Aviación Civil del Ecuador
- Finland: AIB - Accident Investigation Board of Finland
- France: BEA - Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile
- Germany: BFU - Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung
- Greece: AAIASB - Air Accident Investigation and Aviation Safety Board
- Honduras: AAC - Autoridad de Aviación Civil (El Salvador)
- Hong Kong: CAD - Civil Aviation Department (Hong Kong)
- Hungary: KBSZ - Transportation Safety Bureau
- Iceland: RF - Rannsóknarnefnd flugslysa
- India: DGCA - Directorate General of Civil Aviation
- Indonesia: NTSC - National Transportation Safety Committee
- Iran: CAO - Iran Civil Aviation Organization
- Republic of Ireland: AAIU - Air Accident Investigation Unit
- Italy: ANSV - Agenzia Nazionale per la Sicurezza del Volo
- Jamaica: JCAA - Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority
- Japan: JTSB - Japan Transport Safety Board
- Kenya: KCAA - Kenya Civil Aviation Authority
- Lebanon: LCAA - Lebanese Civil Aviation Authority
- Luxembourg: Administration for Technical Investigations
- Maldives: AICC - Accident Investigation Coordination Committee
- Malta: BAAI - Bureau of Air Accident Investigation
- Mexico: SCT - Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes
- Moldova: CAA - Civil Aviation Administration, Department of Flight Safety
- Netherlands: OVV - Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid
- Nepal: CAAN - Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal
- New Zealand: TAIC - Transport Accident Investigation Commission
- Nicaragua: INAC Instituto Nicaragüense de Aeronáutica Civil
- Nigeria: AIB Nigerian Accident Investigation Bureau
- Norway: SHT - Statens Havarikommisjon for Transport
- Pakistan: CAA - Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan
- Peru: CIAA {{in lang|es: - Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes de Aviación
- PRC: CAAC {{in lang|zh: - Civil Aviation Administration of China
- Philippines: CAAP - Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines
- Poland: PKBWL - Państwowa Komisja Badania Wypadków Lotniczych
- Portugal: GPIAA {{in lang|pt: - Gabinete de Prevenção e Investigação de Acidentes com Aeronaves
- Saudi Arabia: GACA - General Authority of Civil Aviation
- Serbia: CAAIC - Civil Aviation Accident Investigation Commission
- Singapore: AAIB - Air Accident Investigation Bureau of Singapore
- Slovakia: - Aviation and Maritime Investigation Authority
- South Africa: SACAA - South African Civil Aviation Authority
- South Korea: ARAIB - Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board
- Spain: CIAIAC {{in lang|es: - Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes e Incidentes de Aviación Civil
- Sweden: SHK - Statens Haverikommission
- Switzerland: STSB - Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board
- ROC: ASC - Aviation Safety Council
- Thailand: DCA - Department of Civil Aviation (Thailand)
- Trinidad and Tobago: CAA - Trinidad and Tobago Civil Aviation Authority
- UAE: GCAA - General Civil Aviation Authority
- UK: AAIB - Air Accidents Investigation Branch
- USA: NTSB - National Transportation Safety Board
Other civil aviation authorities
edit- Isle of Man: Isle of Man Civil Aviation Administration
Regulations
editType certificate data sheets
editNewspaper sources
edit- The Times Archive (subscription required, but may be accessible for UK editors who have a library card via their library's website). A wealth of info to be found, covers dates between 1785 and 1985.
- California Digital Newspaper Collection
Questionable sources
editMany potential sources do not fully meet WP:RS or may breach WP:COPYVIO. They may contain unreliable, false or illegally published information for a variety of reasons. In general, they should not be cited in an article. They should not generally be listed as "External links" either, per WP:ELNO.
On the other hand, some of the material in these sources may have been attributed to a respectable author and the author's own sources cited; such material is usually acceptable, provided Wikipedia takes care to cite the author and individual article.
Some questionable sources may still be useful when researching a topic, where they provide references to further and more reliable information, but should not be trusted or referenced in themselves.
For more about such sources, see WP:QUESTIONABLE.
Common sources to avoid
editSome questionable sources are frequently cited by inexperienced editors in aviation-related articles, and are listed here for quick reference. The list includes both merely questionable and outright unreliable sources.
- The Aerodrome, theaerodrome.com - see archived discussion at Reliability of theaerodrome.com.
- Airframe Dossier or any other sub-site of Aerial Visuals, aerialvisuals.ca - hobby or crowdsourced content, not peer reviewed. See discussion.
- Airwar.ru, airwar.ru, English-language version Sky Corner, home page airwar.ru/indexe.html - widely reported to be unreliable and/or copyvio. See for example this archived discussion.
- Aviastar, aviastar.org (not to be confused with the airline Aviastar-TU) - see notes at Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Aviastar.
- Black Sun Redux, greyfalcon.us - fantasy garbage unlimited.
- GlobalSecurity.org, globalsecurity.org - unreliable and copyright violation news scrapings. See RSN discussion.
- Kites, Birds and Stuff, by P.D. Stemp - book series, self-published and comprising indiscriminate scrapings from everybody else he could lay his hands on, including Wikipedia. It is ostensibly published by Lulu.com, but that is a print-on-demand online self-publishing service.
- Luft '46, luft46.com - see discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aviation/Resources#Luft'46 and The Aerodrome
- LuftArchiv.de, luftarchiv.de - apparently self-published, not peer reviewed.
- Military Factory, militaryfactory.com - see here and here on WP:RSN.
- Nevington War Museum, nevingtonwarmuseum.com - cites Wikipedia among other online sites.
- PlaneCrashInfo.com, planecrashinfo.com - Internet scrapings, some copyvio, no editorial oversight, per discussion.
- Planespotters Net, planespotters.net - See archived discussions at WP:PLANESPOTTERS, also here, here, here and here.
- Secret Projects, secretprojects.co.uk - discussion forum full of unreviewed user-generated content. A useful pointer to RS, but not an RS in itself.
- SimpleFlying, simpleflying.com. Useful for information to follow up, but not reliable in itself. See this discussion.
- Sky Corner - see Airwar.ru above.
- ww2aircraft.net - discussion forum full of unreviewed user-generated content. A useful pointer to RS, but not an RS in itself.
Suggested text when deleting or tagging a citation
editSuggested citation tags, where appropriate:
{{citation needed|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}|reason=unreliable and/or copyvio source removed}}
- Which gives:[citation needed] where an unreliable source is removed.
{{Better source needed|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}|reason=source is not reliable for the stated claim}}
.- Which gives:[better source needed] where there is concern over a questionable source.
Suggested edit comments, as appropriate:
rm unreliable and/or copyvio source per [[AV/R]]
rm unreliable and/or copyvio source per [[AV/R]], tag
rm unreliable and/or copyvio source and associated data per [[AV/R]]