* Atlas Aircraft Corporation, a South African military aircraft manufacturer, formerly known as Atlas Aviation

The Brazilian Armed Forces (, ) is the unified military organization comprising the Brazilian Army ( including the Brazilian Army Aviation ), the Brazilian Navy ( including the Brazilian Marine Corps and Brazilian Naval Aviation ) and the Brazilian Air Force.

Other military activities and federal agencies using the base include Navy Operational Support Center Tucson, a detachment of the Naval Air Systems Command, the Federal Aviation Administration, the U. S. Customs Service Air Service Branch, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.

Dassault Aviation (; ) is a French aircraft manufacturer of military, regional and business jets, a subsidiary of Dassault Group.

Dassault was to specialise in combat and business aircraft, Nord Aviation in ballistic missiles and Sud Aviation civil and military transport aircraft and helicopters.

The U. S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence is the dominant military facility at Fort Rucker.

Vickers Aviation Ltd set up a factory in 1915, and Brooklands soon became a major centre for the construction, testing and supply of military aeroplanes.

A French military mission began training Lao on 28 January 1955, with the aim of staffing the newly founded Lao Air Force, the Aviation Laotienne.

Air America pilots were the only known private U. S. corporate employees to operate non-Federal Aviation Administration-certified military aircraft in a combat role, although many of them were actually military personnel who had been transferred to the airline.

The Royal Lao Air Force ( French: Aviation Royale Laotienne – AVRL ), best known to the Americans by its English acronym ‘ RLAF ’, was the air force branch of the Royal Lao Armed Forces ( FAR ), the official military of the Royal Lao Government and the Kingdom of Laos during the Laotian Civil War between 1960 and 1975.

The original Lao military aviation establishment was the ' Lao Aviation ' ( French: Aviation Laotiènne ), established by the French on 28 January 1955 as a small aerial observation and transport arm of the them National Lao Army ( ANL ).

Republic Aviation made one last attempt to survive by returning to military contracts.

Military Transport Aviation included six separate regiments, and five divisions with a total of 18 military transport aviation regiments in 1988.

The company that had pioneered commercial aviation development for at least a decade was relegated to relatively small one-and two-engined military design competitions issued by the Reichsluftfahrtministerium ( RLM ) the " Reich Aviation Ministry ".

The Federal Aviation Administration also hires Air Traffic Controllers who have separated from the United States military.

At 8: 38 a. m., the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) in Boston, Massachusetts, reported a possible hijacking and called the Otis Air National Guard Base tower on Cape Cod, home to the Massachusetts ANG ’ s 102d Fighter Wing, to request military assistance.

The nearby Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum includes both military and civil aviation exhibits.

In 1951, Land-Air Inc., which implemented the first Contract Field Teams ( teams of technicians that maintained military aircraft for the United States Air Force ), was bought by California Eastern Aviation Inc. DynCorp still holds the contract 50 years later, maintaining rotary and fixed-wing aircraft for all branches of the U. S. Armed Forces.

The airport had been enlarged by the military during World War II, but in 1958 the City Aviation Department, started planning to expand and modernize the airport.

The then Department of Civil Aviation inherited a large number of operating vehicles from the former military occupants, including an assortment of vehicles including " Blitz " wagons, Dodge command cars and weapon carriers, large trucks and various makes of fire tenders, jeeps and ambulances.

ETOPS is an acronym for extended operations as re-defined by the US Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) in 2007.

Sam, from the School of Aviation Medicine in San Antonio, Texas, received his name as an acronym of the facility.

* VTA, Russian language acronym for Military Transport Aviation

Snecma used to be an acronym for Société nationale d ' études et de construction de moteurs d ' aviation ( in English, " National Company for the Design and Construction of Aviation Engines ") until April 27 < sup > th </ sup > 2004.

GECAS ( GE Capital Aviation Services, though the acronym is the more common usage ) is a unit of GE Capital, itself part of the large conglomerate General Electric.

The new company was renamed the Société Pour L ' Aviation et ses Dérivés which allowed the retention of the SPAD acronym.

Although the school is currently offering a wide range of majors and research programs well beyond just the aviation-related ones, the historical shorter name Moscow Aviation Institute is almost always used in reference to it.

He founded the Associated Retired Aviation Professionals ( ARAP ) and started a website, to document the many discrepancies in the “ official ” version of the crash and to the end remained committed to proving that the aircraft was shot down by a missile, probably shoulder fired.

In the California Adventure version of the attraction, the " History of Aviation in California " hallway of the queue uses the scores to many different films.

This Australian domestic version was referred to by the Federal Department of Civil Aviation as DME ( D ) ( or DME Domestic ), and the later international version adopted by ICAO as DME ( I ).

* Beagle B. 125 Bulldog – military version of the Pup, built by Scottish Aviation after the company was liquidated.

The Royal Air Force also uses a " half wing " version to denote Aviation Observers.

Aviation writer Macarthur Job has noted that, " had that Boeing 767 been of an earlier version of the type, fitted with engines that were mechanically rather than electronically controlled, then that accident could not have happened.

These programs included delivering the cornerstone of Naval Aviation, F / A-18E / F Super Hornet, as well as the early operational fielding of the Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared ( ATFLIR ), Multifunctional Information Distribution System ( MIDS ), the Shared Reconnaissance Pod ( SHARP ), Improved Capability III Airborne Electronic Attack ( ICAP III ) system, and latest version of the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile, the AIM-9X.

The main sticking point that had prevented the conclusion of a new, transatlantic " Common Aviation Area " agreement between the EU and the US was that the UK and most other European countries viewed the US version of " open skies " as too restrictive.

IndUS Aviation is currently developing an improved version of the Thorp T-211 which they call the Thorpedo LP.

1303 ) version of Alf was variously, a Millwright at Greystone Aviation Factory and ( The Rover-No.

" Foobar may have derived from the military acronym FUBAR and gained popularity because it is pronounced the same.

* FSB or FB, an acronym for fire support base or fire base used by the U. S. military during the Vietnam War

Among measures taken by Conte to try and shore up his support within the military after 2007 was the transfer of the ' popular Sékouba Konaté to Conakry to head the parachute Autonomous Battalion of Airborne Troops ( French acronym BATA ) in an attempt to calm the troops.

In some applications, notably military and government, radioteletype is known by the acronym RATT ( Radio Automatic Teletype ).

The Secretary of the Navy ( acronym: SECNAV ) is a statutory office () and the head ( chief executive officer ) of the Department of the Navy, a military department ( component organization ) within the Department of Defense of the United States of America.

* TARFU, an acronym for " Totally and Royally Fucked Up " or " Things Are Really Fucked Up "; see List of military slang terms

This type of warfare is distinct from Nuclear warfare and Biological warfare, which together make up NBC, the military acronym for Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical ( warfare or weapons ), all of which are considered " weapons of mass destruction " ( WMD ).

There was a related, well-organized political and ( occasionally ) military force within the Degar communities known by the French acronym, FULRO, or United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races.

There was a related, well-organized political and ( occasionally ) military force within the Dega communities known by the French acronym, FULRO, or United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races.

Hamas ( an acronym of Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamat al-Islāmiyyah, meaning " Islamic Resistance Movement ") is a fundamentalist Islamist Palestinian organization with a socio-political wing and a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

The name " Private Snafu " comes from the unofficial military acronym SNAFU (" Situation Normal: All Fucked Up "), with the opening narrator merely hinting at its usual meaning as " Situation Normal, All ... All Fouled Up!

JAG ( the American military acronym for Judge Advocate General ) is an American adventure / legal drama television show that was produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television ( now CBS Television Studios ) and, for the first season only, NBC Productions.

* Area of responsibility, a United States military acronym referring to the geographic region assigned to a strategic military command

The majority of the demonstrations took place on a long stretch of Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, more commonly known by its acronym EDSA, in Metropolitan Manila from February 22 – 25, 1986 and involved over two million Filipino civilians as well as several political, military, and including religious groups led by Cardinal Jaime Sin, the Archbishop of Manila.

* ASTOR ( disambiguation ), a military acronym

The Hellenic Army, apart from being the largest component participating in it, is also leading the Balkan Battle Group ( otherwise known as HELBROC ( an acronym for HELlas, Bulgaria, ROmania and Cyprus )), which is the largest military formation of NATO in Southeast Europe.

* Withdrawn from use, a military acronym that has been applied by Flight International magazine to military aircraft

The Baltic Defence College ( official acronym BALTDEFCOL, commonly also BDCOL ) is a multi-lateral co-operative military college which educates officers from not only the three Baltic States ( Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania ), but also from NATO and EU States and other European States as Ukraine, Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia and Romania.

* RINT, the acronym for Radiation INTelligence, military application

The United States Army uses CBRN as an acronym for their 74D Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Operations Specialists military occupational specialty ( MOS ).

The United States Marine Corps ( USMC ) use it as an acronym for their 5711 and 5702 military occupational specialties ( MOS ).