INDEX TO THIS SECTION'S TOPICS

[Stargazer]

Feeling the lack of an easy way to list and organize the various topics we have in the "Designation Systems" section, I'm creating this new topic which will list all the existing topics alphabetically by country. Installments are in this order: EUROPE ; RUSSIA ; AMERICA ; ASIA ; OCEANIA. Within each section, the countries are listed from most numerous to least numerous topics.

Of course, I hope this topic will lead to some topics being merged, as there are a few duplicates there. Thanks in advance!

EUROPE

CONSORTIUMS

• Airbus Industrie designations......
• NH-90/TTH Caiman & NH-90/NFH Caiman Marine

BRITAIN

Manufacturers

• Airspeed aircraft
• Armstrong Whitworth designations
• Auster designations (1950s)
• Avro aircraft
• Blackburn designations
• Boulton Paul
• Bristol designations
• Cierva designations
• De Havilland aircraft
• Folland Fo-list
• General Aircraft Ltd, UK
• Gloster designations
• Hafner aircraft
• Handley Page aircraft
• Hawker designation list
• Hunting-Percival aircraft
• Mann Egerton & Company Limited
• Miles designations
• Parnall aircraft
• Pemberton-Billing
• Royal Aircraft Factory designations
• Saro designations
• Shorts S series
• Slingsby gliders and aircraft
• Supermarine type designations
• Vickers type designations
• Westland WG- series designations
• Westland drawing numbers

Others

• SBAC Numbers
• Operational Requirements.
• RAF missing Specifications and Aircraft from 1920 to 1949
• UK Projects Presentation - Forum Style.
• British engines

 

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FRANCE

Manufacturers

• ANF Les Mureaux
• Arsenal de l'Aéronautique Designations
• Paul Aubert
• Avions Bréguet (Br) designations
• Bleriot-SPAD
• Boisavia Designations
• CAMS
• Caudron designations
• Georges Sablier Type Designations
• Société des Avions Marcel Bloch (MB) designations
• Avions Marcel Dassault (MD) designations
• Dewoitine
• Farman Systems
• Hanriot designations
• Jodel
• Latecoere aircraft
• Leduc aircraft
• Liore et Olivier
• Peyret-Mauboussin, Mauboussin, Castel-Mauboussin
• Mignet aircraft
• Morane Saulnier designations
• Nieuport designations
• Nord Aviation and SNCAN designations
• R.N. Payen : If we don't want to wait for at least another seven years ...
• Romano designations......
• Potez designations
• SNCAC / Aérocentre designations (NC-)
• SNCASE / Sud-Est Aviation designation (SE-)
• SNCASO / Sud-Ouest Aviation (SO) designations
• SNECMA engines list
• SNECMA AP list
• Voisin E-Series

Others

• French electronics designations
• designations of a french aviation company ...

 

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GERMANY

Manufacturers

• AEKKEA-Raab designations
• ALBATROS Flugzeugwerke GmbH
• Arado Designations
• Caspar-Werke AG
• Daimler Motoren-Gesellschaft
• Dietrich-Gobiet/Dietrich Flugzeugwerke Designations
• Dornier Project Designations
• Farner Flugzeugbau
• Focke-Achgelis
• Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau GmbH.
• Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen
• Grob designations
• Ernst Heinkel A.G.
• Henschel (HFW) Designations
• Junkers EF designations
• Junkers EFo designations
• Klemm Designations
• Messerschmitt aircraft M-17 to M-37
• MBB and Bolkow aircraft
• Nagler helicopters... from Germany to the USA
• Pöschel aircraft
• Raab-Katzenstein Designations

Others

• Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM) Designations
• RLM acquisition standards

 

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ITALY

• Alenia Aermacchi T-100 Master
• CANT and CRDA list
• Caproni aircraft
• Bonomi Designations (Aeronautica Vittorio Bonomi)
• CVV (del Politecnico di Milano) Designations
• Frati designations
• Savoia designations
• Fiat post-war design list
• New designation for the latest Mangusta/Mongoose upgrade

HUNGARY

• RMI -- Hungarian Aircraft Designations
• Ernö Rubik -- Hungarian Aircraft Designer
• MSrE Designations -- Hungarian Aircraft Designs
• Manfred Weiss -- Hungarian Aircraft Producer

NETHERLANDS

• Fokker Ontwerp Numbers
• Aviolanda
• Dutch-built Pre-WWII Gliders
• De Schelde designations

POLAND

• Bartel aircraft, Poland
• LET designations
• LWS aircraft, Poland

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

• Letov Pre-1945 Designations
• Zlin designations
• Czech Avia designations
• Czech LF-aircraft
• CSSR Orlican/Moravan companies

ROMANIA
Factory Designations

• IAR Romanian aircraft company
• ICAR Romanian Aircraft Designations
• SET - Romanian Aircraft Designations

Designer Designations

• Ing Radu Manicatide - RM/IAR-800 Series Designations
• Ing Iosif Silimon - IS Series Designations

YUGOSLAVIA

• Ikarus post war projects
• Rogožarski projects
• UTVA designations

SWITZERLAND

• Flugzeugbau Alfred Comte
• August Häfeli

AUSTRIA

• Hopfner aircraft, Austria

BULGARIA

• Bulgarian DAR (to 1945) & Lazarov Designations

DENMARK

• Danish Naval Air Service Flying Boats
• Kramme & Zeuthen (SAI) Designations

SWEDEN

• Swedish Military Rb (Robot) Numbers

SPAIN

• Spanish AISA aircraft

LITUANIA

• Lithuanian Aircraft Designations

LATVIA

• Latvian Aircraft Designations

ESTONIA

• Estonian Aircraft Designations

• Baltic Designations

GREECE

• AEKKEA-Raab designations

 

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RUSSIA & SOVIET UNION

Manufacturers and design bureaus

• Roberto Bartini
• Beriev aircraft
• Gribovskiy aircraft
• Ilyushin Designations
• Ilyushin Il-14 « Crate C »
• Unknown Kamov designations
• Lavochkin aircraft and missiles
• Myasishchev aircraft
• MiG-23/27 designation
• Sikorsky designations
• Sukhoi S- Designations
• Sukhoi Su- designations
• Tupolev aircraft
• "TsKB-" (Zavod 39) designations

Others

• Soviet Designation Systems
• Soviet military aircraft designation system till 1940
• NATO reporting names for Soviet/Chinese aircraft and missiles
• RAM- Designations for Soviet Aircraft
• Designation system of Gorky aircraft plant No.21 (USSR)
• Russian/Soviet SAM (PVO Forces)
• Early Soviet Army rocket/missiles (GRAU 3 Group)
• Russian/Soviet Navy missiles
• Russian/Soviet Army missiles (GRAU 9M Series)
• Soviet Army unguided rocket (GAU 1930-50s designation system)
• The normally used designations « MiG-13 » and « La-13 » are fakes
• Soviet radars ASCC codenames
• ASCC reporting names for soviet avionics
• ASCC/ASIC/US DoD Reporting Name for Soviet/Russian/Chinese Aircraft and Missiles

 

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AMERICAS

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

See separate topic here.

 

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CANADA

• Prefix letters for US and Canadian manufacturers' designations
• Canadair Designations « 1 2 All »
• Canadair CL-44 Model Designations

MEXICO

• TNCA

BRAZIL

• Muniz aircraft, Brasil
• CAP aircraft, Brasil
• Brazilian EAY, CAP and IPT designations
• Embraer designations

 

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ASIA

(Yeah, I know Russia is also in Asia, but it the aircraft companies are mostly west of Ural, so they're European...)

JAPAN

• Aichi
• Fuji designations
• Mitsubishi designations
• Kawanishi Kokuki Kabushiki Kaisha
• Japanese Army aircraft ; designation system Ki.
• Japanese Navy competition programs
• Japanese Navy Experimental Designations
• How did the "official" Japanese designations work?

INDIA

• HAL (Hindustan) designations

INDONESIA

• LIPNUR X series

 

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OCEANIA

AUSTRALIA

• Lawrence J. Wackett
• Royal Australian Navy Aircraft
• Commonwealth aircraft

 

[Stargazer]

various

These are the topics that I couldn't really stick in any category, either because they do not belong to this section, or because they are not related to any country in particular:

• NATO Basic Military Requirements (NBMR)
• Forgotten GOR/SOR designations
• Commercial usage of "military" designations
• crb-9 inspiration

 

[Retrofit]

Tremendous work!
Thanks Stephane.

 

[Maveric]

Great work Stephane, THANKS.

 

[lark]

Merci beaucoup !

 

[Apophenia]

Most valuable -- thanks Stéphane!

 

[Steve Pace]

Very helpful indeed! Good job. -SP

 

[Retrofit]

Just a point: CANT (Cantieri Aeronautici e Navali Triestini) & CRDA (Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico) lists should be moved to the Italian section.

 

[Stargazer]

Oops... :-\ Done! Thanks a lot.

 

[LAW]

Hello,

Great work Stargazer2006!

One amendment: Letov was a Czechoslovak company, not Polish.

Regards,
LAW

 

[Stargazer]

Hello,

Great work Stargazer2006!

One amendment: Letov was a Czechoslovak company, not Polish.

Regards,
LAW

Fixed. Thanks!

 

[Antonio]

Great work!, thanks a lot!

You should be promoted immediately to Moderator.

 

[Stargazer]

You should be promoted immediately to Moderator.

Gosh! Thanks for suggesting! I didn't expect that to happen...

Been busy reorganizing the lists a bit. Not only I used an alphabetical way of organizing the topics (much easier to maintain) but I also sub-divided the larger lists into logical units that can be more easily accessed. Please feel free to suggest any improvement or modification to this work.

I also renamed a couple of topics and merged the two Hawker topics into one. I will soon do the same with Rutan and a couple others.

 

[Apophenia]

Alphabetical listings (and re-namings) make the index much easier to use. Well done Stéphane!

 

[AM]

Hi all

RAF (Royal Air Force)) (Royal Aircraft Factory) lists should be moved

 

[Stargazer]

Updated the list for the period May-July 2011.

 

[dan_inbox]

Congrats Stéphane, most useful work.

One small input: August Häfeli should be moved from Germany to Switzerland
Herr Häfeli was from Bern. See Flugpionier August Häfeli

And a suggestion: Has anybody consolidated the entries for a manufacturer into txt or word files which could be downloaded?
This is most useful to have on the local PC when doing some renaming/sorting/cleaning.
I have done a few txt files myself. If there is interest we could exchange files, or even set up a download repository somewhere.

 

[Stargazer]

I've updated this topic for the period covering August until now (a LOT of new stuff) and was helped in doing so by Apophenia. Thanks a lot to him

 

[Apophenia]

Thanks Stéphane. You work fast! ;D

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Congrats Stéphane, most useful work.

One small input: August Häfeli should be moved from Germany to Switzerland
Herr Häfeli was from Bern. See Flugpionier August Häfeli

And a suggestion: Has anybody consolidated the entries for a manufacturer into txt or word files which could be downloaded?
This is most useful to have on the local PC when doing some renaming/sorting/cleaning.
I have done a few txt files myself. If there is interest we could exchange files, or even set up a download repository somewhere.

Funny you should say that, a contributor to the forum sent me a compilation of the various British topics. I am giving some thought to the best way to present it.

 

[Stargazer]

I have updated the lists in the main page to indicate all new or updated topics since October 24, 2011.

 

[Stargazer]

I have decided to separate American aircraft from the rest of this topic as the list was big and increasingly difficult to manage...

New "sticky" topic for U.S. designations can be found here.

 

[Stargazer]

Here is a list of all the topics in this section that have been updated or created from June to early October 2012 (bold type indicates new topics):

FRANCE:

• Hanriot and Lorraine-Hanriot designations
• Hurel-Dubois designations
• Nord Aviation and SNCAN designations
• SIPA designations
• SNCASE / Sud-Est Aviation designation (SE)
• SNCASO / Sud-Ouest Aviation (SO) designations

GERMANY:

• Farner Flugzeugbau
• Grob designations
• Pöschel aircraft

ITALY:

• Caproni aircraft
• Frati designations

ROMANIA:

• ICAR Romanian Aircraft Designations
• SET - Romanian Aircraft Designations

UNITED KINGDOM:

• British Aviation
• Percival aircraft
• RAF missing Specifications and Aircraft from 1920 to 1949
• Supermarine type designations

YUGOSLAVIA:

• Ikarus post war projects
• Rogožarski projects
• UTVA designations

OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES:

• CSSR Orlican/Moravan companies
• Czech Avia designations
• Fokker Ontwerp Numbers
• LET designations
• Spanish AISA aircraft
• Russian/Soviet Army missiles (GRAU 9M Series)

AMERICAS (except USA):

• Brazilian EAY, CAP and IPT designations
• Embraer designations

ASIA:

• Fuji designations
• Japanese Navy Experimental Designations

OCEANIA:

• Commonwealth aircraft