Aircraft/Engine/Propeller/Accessory Manufacturers Abbreviations
Abbreviation | Manufacturer |
Abbeman | Abbeman |
Aeronca | Aeronca Aircraft Corp |
Aircool | Aircooled Motors Corp (Franklin) |
All American Target | All American Target |
Am Prop | American Propeller and Mfg Co |
Beechcraft | Beechcraft |
Bell | Bell Aircraft Corp |
Bellanca | Bellanca |
BAC (Boeing preferred) | Boeing Aircraft Co |
Boeing | Boeing Aircraft Co |
Brewster | Brewster |
Buschmann & Associates | Buschmann & Associates |
Cessna | Cessna Aircraft Co |
Chase | Chase Aircraft Co |
Christopher | Christopher Aircraft Co |
CAC | Consolidated Aircraft Corp |
CVAC | Consolidated Vultee Aircraft |
Cornelius | Cornelius Aircraft Co |
Culver | Culver Aircraft Corp |
Curtiss | Curtiss |
CW | Curtiss-Wright |
Dayton Wright | Dayton Wright Propeller |
Dewoitine | Dewoitine |
Dosk Aircraft Co | Dosk Aircraft Co |
DAC | Douglas Aircraft Co |
ECA | East Coast Inc |
Edo | Edo Aircraft Corp |
Budd | Edward G. Budd |
ERCO | Engineering and Research Corp |
EngDiv | Engineering Division |
EDAC | Engineering Division, Air Corps |
EDAS | Engineering Division, Air Service |
F. Flader | F. Flader |
FAC | Fairchild Aircraft Co |
FAD | Fairchild Aviation Division |
Fisher | Fisher Body |
Fleetwings | Fleetwings Inc |
Flottrop | Flottrop Manufacturing Co |
G&A | G & A Aircraft Inc |
General | General Aircraft Corp |
GE | General Electric |
GMC | General Motors Corp |
GLM | Glenn L. Martin |
Martin | Glenn L. Martin |
Globe | Globe Corp |
GAC | Goodyear Aircraft |
Hamilton | Hamilton Aero Mfg Co |
Ham Std | Hamilton-Standard |
Hartzell | Hartzell Walnut Propeller Co |
Higgins | Higgins |
Hughes | Hughes Aircraft Co |
Interstate | Interstate Aircraft Co |
JW Stone | JW Stone Propeller Co |
Kellett | Kellett Aircraft Corp |
Kroaliter-Doak | Kroaliter-Doak |
LK | Laister_Kauffman Aircraft Co |
Lockheed | Lockheed Aircraft Corp |
LWF | Lowe, Willard & Fowler |
LG | Ludington-Griswold Inc |
Maddox | Maddox Table Co |
M&R Inc | Management and Research, Inc |
Marquardt Helicopter | Marquardt Helicopter |
MDAC | Materiel Division, Air Corps, Wright Field, etc. |
MCD | McDonnell Aircraft Co |
McDonnell | McDonnell Aircraft Co |
McDonnell Helicopter | McDonnell Helicopter |
Noorduyn | Noorduyn Aviation Limited |
NAA | North American Aviation |
Northrop | Northrop Aircraft Inc |
PV | P.V. Engineering Forum |
Packard | Packard Motor Car Co |
Piper | Piper |
PS&B | Pittsburgh Screw & Bolt Corp |
Platt-LePage | Platt-LePage Aircraft Co |
P&W | Pratt & Whitney |
Radioplane | Radioplane Co |
Rand-Douglas | Rand-Douglas |
RAC | Republic Aviation Corp |
Ryan | Ryan |
Sikorsky | Sikorsky |
Smith | Smith Engineering Co |
Std Steel | Standard Steel Propeller Co |
Steel P&E | Steel Products & Engineering Co |
Stinson | Stinson Aircraft |
Stout | Stout |
US Aero | US Aero Propeller Co |
Vega | Vega |
Vought | Vought |
VS | Vought-Sikorsky |
Vultee | Vultee Aircraft |
Kellogg | W. W. Kellogg Co |
Waco | Waco Aircraft Corp |
Westinghouse | Westinghouse Electric & Mfg co |
WOM | Willys-Overland Motors |
WAC | Wright Aeronautical Corp (pre-1929) |
WAD | Wright Aeronautical Division of CW |
Wright | Wright Aeronautical Division of CW |
Wright-Martin | Wright-Martin |
Security Classification Abbreviations
Abbreviation | Classification |
C | Confidential |
R | Restricted |
S | Secret |
U | Unclassified |
Other Abbreviation
Abbreviation | Full Text |
# | Number |
AAFTR | Army Air Forces Technical Report |
AC | Air Corps Acquisition Number |
CN | Construction Number |
Co | Company |
Corp | Corporation |
corres | correspondence |
CS | Constant Speed (Propeller) |
DN | Design/Drawing Number |
Dsn | Design Number |
dwg(s) | drawing(s) |
GFE | Government Furnished Equipment |
IOM | Inter-Office Memorandum |
memo | memorandum |
Mfd | Manufactured |
Mfg | Manufacturing |
Mfr | Manufacturer |
MN | Model Number |
PN | Part Number |
PU | Power Unit (Curtiss Electric Prop) |
Rep | Representative |
rpt(s) | report(s) |
SN | Serial Number |
str | service test report |
ur(s) | unsatisfactory report(s) |
w | with |
wo | without |