1<!-- This document was created with HomeSite v2.0 --> 2<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> 3<HTML> 4<HEAD> 5 <TITLE>U.S. Military Aircraft Designations 1911-2004</TITLE> 6 <META NAME="U.S. Military Aircraft Designations 1911-2004" CONTENT="A site listing all military aircraft designations assigned by the United States armed forces, with images hyperlinked for many of the aircraft, and explanations of the systems used."> 7 <META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="Andrew Chorney"> 8 <META NAME="KeyWords" CONTENT="U.S., military, aircraft, designation, numbering, aviation, United States, Air Force, Navy, Naval, Coast Guard, Army, Marines, history, airplanes, planes, helicopters, rotorcraft, pictures, images, links, information"> 9</HEAD> 10<BODY BACKGROUND="backgrounds/marble4.jpg" LINK= "2B31E9" VLINK="6200C0"> 11<A NAME="top"></A> 12<IMG ALIGN="LEFT" SRC="icons/clip1b.gif" WIDTH=100 HEIGHT=100 BORDER=0 ALT=""><IMG SRC="icons/clip1b.gif" WIDTH=100 HEIGHT=100 BORDER=0 ALIGN="RIGHT" ALT=""> 13<FONT SIZE="+3"><CENTER>U.S. Military Aircraft Designations<BR></FONT> 14<FONT SIZE="+2">1911-2004</FONT><BR> 15<FONT SIZE="+1">last updated: 8/11/02</FONT><BR> 16</CENTER> 17 18<H4> 19<table cellpadding=0 width="100%"> 20<tr> 21<td valign=top width="20%"> 22<A HREF="usdes.html" >Aircraft Designations</A><P> 23<A HREF="usdes2.html" >Aircraft Designation Systems</A><P> 24<A HREF="usdesabb.html" >Abbreviations and Acronyms</A><P> 25<A HREF="usdesbib.html" >Sources and Acknowledgements</A><P> 26<A HREF="deshist.html" >History Of The List</A><P> 27<A HREF="http://www.designation-systems.net/usmilav" >Andreas Parsch's Aviation Designations</A><P> 28<A HREF="aviation.html" >Aviation Links</A><P> 29<A HREF="http://gallery.driko.org/" >Photos</A><P> 30My <A HREF="http://www.driko.org/" >Home</A> Page<P> 31</td> 32 33<td valign=top width="80%"> 34 35I have been working on this little ;-) project for over 10 years now. To give you an indication of the time this project has spanned, I first wrote the list on a Commodore 128. You probably don't want to hear the whole painstaking process from handwritten notes all the way to HTML, but if you do, click on the <A HREF="deshist.html">"History of The List"</A> link. 36 37Anyway, my ultimate goal was to compile a list of all of the designations used by the U.S. armed forces for their aircraft and present them in a coherent, easily scannable fashion. I have seen many books that attempt to do so, and a couple are very comprehensive and informative (see <A HREF="usdesbib.html">"Sources and Acknowledgements"</A> for some suggestions), but I have yet to see just a nice, complete list of all the designations that all of the military services have used up till now. I hope I've come close to that achieving that goal.<P> 38 39Besides the designations themselves, I have also tried to find links to photos of aircraft, and have hyperlinked a good amount into the text. I've gotten pretty far, but it's been hard to find images of the more obscure aircraft, and I don't have the server space to scan them in myself. For some more photos of aircraft that I've taken, see my <A HREF="http://gallery.driko.org">photography site</A>.<P> 40 41I have also compiled from various sources the exact schemes and systems utilized by the various armed services to designate their aircraft since the early 1900's. You'd be surprised how complex they are! Click on <A HREF="usdes2.html">"Designation Systems"</A> to look at the whole thing from the beginning, or <A HREF="usdes2.html#1962">here</A> to skip to the present Joint Service designation system.<P> 42 43At one point, I was considering trying to get my work published, but have pretty much abandoned any hope of that. I don't have the time to properly research and prepare the text, and I have a feeling that there is not a real huge audience for this sort of thing (prove me wrong and <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">e-mail me</A>!). So, I decided to go ahead and post this on the Web for everyone's info and enjoyment. I am not completely sure of the legalities of all of this, but I do want to maintain control over the contents of my hard work, so please don't distribute the files without my Copyright assertion .<P> 44 45Please <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">e-mail me</A> and let me know of any new designations, mistakes, inconsistencies, etc. I have been lax for a
45while in keeping up to date, and would appreciate any help.<P> 46 47I want to thank everyone whose sites I have borrowed and linked images from. I don't have a complete list of all the sites whose images I have used, but I kept all of the links intact so that further exploration can begin from there. Also, my list of <A HREF="aviation.html">aviation</A> sites, especially the <A HREF="aviation.html#images">image archives</A> I found, should contain all of the sites that I used and more. Click on <A HREF="usdesbib.html">"Sources and Acknowledgements"</A> to see a bibliography of the print sources that I have used as well as some personal acknowledgements.<P> 48 49<IMG SRC="icons/note2.gif" WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=11 BORDER=0 ALT="">Please bear with me while I clean up the pages a little. I've split up the main designations list into smaller pages for a quicker load time. And I've started organizing the data into tables for easier reading. Please <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">let me know</A> what you think of the new look!<P> Any other suggestions for improvements are of course welcome. <B>Enjoy!</B><P> 50</H4> 51</td></tr></table> 52<H3> 53<P> 54<CENTER> 55<FONT SIZE="+1">First posted: 11/11/96; Last modified: 8/11/02<P> 56You are visitor <IMG SRC="http://counter.digits.com/wc/-d/5/-z/drikodes" WIDTH=75 HEIGHT=20 BORDER=0 HSPACE=4 VSPACE=2> since 2/23/99</FONT><P> 57<A HREF="http://www.digits.com" ><IMG SRC="icons/wc-03.gif" WIDTH=252 HEIGHT=23 BORDER=0 ALT="Free web counters!"></A><P> 58</CENTER><P> 59</H3> 60 61<CENTER><IMG SRC="bars/gr_ban11.gif" WIDTH=592 HEIGHT=22 BORDER=0><P> 62<a href="http://www.therail.com/cgi-bin/junction/4015" 63 target="_top"> 64<IMG SRC="icons/railicon.gif" ismap WIDTH=120 HEIGHT=40 BORDER=0 ALT="The Rail"></a><P><BR> 65<CENTER>
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