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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.

Country specific

• 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

• Aircraft Engine Historical Society - Engine Locator
• 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

Current

• 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

• Golden Years of Aviation (Worldwide, 1919-39)
• sr692.com, a complete listing of all Swissair aircraft.

Military

• UK Serials Resource Centre - amateur site for UK military aircraft serials

• 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

These 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

• Isle of Man: Isle of Man Civil Aviation Administration

• Australian Civil Aviation Safety Regulations
• Canadian Aviation Regulations
• United States FARs

• Type Certificates - Canada
• Type Certificates - United States
• Supplemental Type Certificates - United States
• Airworthiness Directives - United States
• EASA - Type Certificate Data Sheets - Aircraft

• 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

Many 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

Some 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

Suggested 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]]