Welcome to the Aviation WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Aviation. If you would like to join us, please add your name to the list of project members!
Currently, there are 42,513 aviation-related Wikipedia articles, 150 are good articles (about 1 in 283), and 52 are featured articles (about 1 in 810).
Goals
To create the foremost reliable and accurate free-content encyclopedia of aviation in the English language.
Improve Wikipedia's coverage by constantly creating, expanding, and maintaining articles.
Create guidelines and recommendations for articles about aviation, and provide a central discussion area.
Scope
The project generally considers any article related to aviation to be within its scope. Our primary work is concentrated in a number of broad areas:
Internally, the project has developed several structural features to help in managing our extensive work:
Assessment
The assessment department focuses on determining and tracking the quality of Wikipedia's aviation articles; the resulting statistics are used to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
Collaboration
The collaboration department seeks to identify articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort; every fortnight, a single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it. The current collaboration article is Vladimir Serov (pilot).
Outreach
The outreach department acts as a central location for various member outreach work, including project newsletters, recruitment and welcoming banners, and other related initiatives.
Peer review
The review department conducts both informal peer reviews of articles, as well as formal reviews for A-Class status; it also provides a centralized forum for viewing external reviews (such as featured article candidacies) within the project's scope.
The project includes 5 Child projects and 6 task forces for collaboration on specific topics within aviation, such as aircraft, defunct airlines, or gliding.
4.7% List-Class
35.3% Stub-Class
27.2% Start-Class
22.4% C-Class
8.6% B-Class
0.9% GA-Class
0.1% A-Class
0.3% FA-Class
0.6% remaining
Style guide and essays
Shortcuts
WP:AVIATION#MOS
WP:AVIATION#STYLE
The project's style guide contains most of the editorial guidelines and essays developed by the project. The guide covers the following areas:
Naming conventions
Article content
Usage and style
Sourcing and citation
Templates
Categories
All project members are encouraged to consult the relevant portions of the guide as they work on articles.
We encourage all members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation to use the translation feature more often. There are many articles that can be created or expanded via translation.
The Soviet Aviation Task force needs articles translated into English! Please feel free to join!
The Aviation accident task force has a list of missing articles of major aviation accidents that aren't covered on English Wikipedia.
Missing women aviators is a small redlist of women aviators for whom we lack biographies.
The defunct airlines project is now a task force of WikiProject Airlines – check it out and join today!
Find images for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of aircraft
A quick reference to aviation articles that are up for discussion and deletion is available - watchlist it and use it!
Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Missing articles lists over 500 articles that require creating or redirecting. Dig in!
A template is available to quickly create articles. Go to Template:WPAVIATION creator and start creating!
The collaboration and review departments are open. Please visit and nominate or help review articles!
Articles for deletion
26 Jul 2021 – John H. Morgan (Pilot)(talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Fram (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
21 Jul 2021 – Height 611 UFO incident(talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by CambridgeBayWeather (t · c); see discussion (8 participants)
23 Jul 2021 – JDK Flight Recorder(talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Mxtt.prior (t · c) was closed by Mxtt.prior (t · c) on 25 Jul 2021; see discussion (1 participant)
17 Jul 2021 – SiLA Airlines Flight 42(talk · edit · hist) AfDed by WilliamJE (t · c) was closed as no consensus by Daniel (t · c) on 24 Jul 2021; see discussion (9 participants)
15 Jul 2021 – 2010 Indian Army helicopter crash (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by WilliamJE (t · c) was closed as delete by Premeditated Chaos (t · c) on 22 Jul 2021; see discussion (6 participants)
06 Jul 2021 – 2021 Albuquerque hot air balloon crash(talk · edit · hist) AfDed by KidAd (t · c) was closed as redirect by King of Hearts (t · c) on 21 Jul 2021; see discussion (25 participants; relisted)
Categories for discussion
21 Jul 2021 – Category:Airliner accidents and incidents involving mid-air collisions (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Clarityfiend (t · c); see discussion
14 Jul 2021 – Category:South Vietnamese Vietnam War flying aces (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Toadboy123 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
23 Jul 2021 – Paul Rabone(talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Zawed (t · c); start discussion
19 Jul 2021 – Paradise Airlines Flight 901A(talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by RecycledPixels (t · c); start discussion
02 Jul 2021 – Winsted Municipal Airport(talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Bobamnertiopsis (t · c); start discussion
19 Jul 2021 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 512(talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by RecycledPixels (t · c) was promoted by Hog Farm (t · c), see discussion
Requests for comments
14 Jul 2021 – Kármán line(talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Garuda28 (t · c); see discussion
Peer reviews
20 Jun 2021 – Living in the Age of Airplanes(talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Gerald Waldo Luis (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
24 Jul 2021 – AFT UAV(talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to AFT (UAV manufacturer) by Shhhnotsoloud (t · c); see discussion
21 Jul 2021 – List of wheel-well stowaway flights(talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Wheel-well stowaway by Dhaluza (t · c); see discussion
20 Jul 2021 – 2020 Kenai Peninsula mid-air collision(talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to 2020 Alaska mid-air collision by Carguychris (t · c); see discussion
20 Jul 2021 – Sarsawa Air Force Station(talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Sarsawa Airport by 2409:4063:4C12:DB54:FEC5:9A49:9ED2:FF75 (t · c); see discussion
07 Jul 2021 – Berlin Schönefeld Airport (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Berlin Brandenburg Airport by Image2012 (t · c); see discussion
23 Jun 2021 – Holidays Czech Airlines (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Czech Airlines by DGG (t · c); see discussion
30 May 2021 – Bendix Aviation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Bendix Corporation by Noha307 (t · c); see discussion
29 May 2021 – Airport Movement Area Safety System (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Airport Surface Surveillance Capability by Headphase (t · c); see discussion
28 May 2021 – Rupsi Airport (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Rupsi Airfield by Lfstevens (t · c); see discussion
28 May 2021 – ASDE-X (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Airport Surface Surveillance Capability by Headphase (t · c); see discussion
28 May 2021 – Airport Surface Surveillance Capability (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to ASDE-X by Headphase (t · c); see discussion
22 May 2021 – Curtiss JN-6H (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Curtiss JN-4 Jenny by ZLEA (t · c); see discussion
19 May 2021 – Espionage balloon (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Observation balloon by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion
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Articles to be split
14 May 2021 – Partenavia P.68 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Marc Lacoste (t · c); see discussion
11 Feb 2021 – Synthetic-aperture radar (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion
30 Jan 2021 – Larry Connor (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 65.93.183.33 (t · c); see discussion
30 Dec 2020 – Boeing 737 MAX certification (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Marc Lacoste (t · c); see discussion
14 Dec 2020 – OLT Express (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Hythonia (t · c); see discussion
13 Nov 2020 – Atmospheric entry (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rod57 (t · c); see discussion
23 Mar 2020 – Alan Eustace (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 67.70.32.186 (t · c); see discussion
08 Sep 2019 – Braniff International Airways (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Jax 0677 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
22 Jul 2021 – Draft:Robert A. Jensen (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Dtorr545 (t · c)
24 Jul 2021 – Draft:Team Invictus (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Owais3.14 (t · c) was declined by DoubleGrazing (t · c) on 25 Jul 2021
16 Jul 2021 – Draft:Simon Papouis (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Jonleegmx (t · c) was declined by Yeeno (t · c) on 26 Jul 2021
10 Jun 2021 – Draft:Park Van Tassel (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Zanonia (t · c) was declined by TheBirdsShedTears (t · c) on 21 Jul 2021
11 May 2021 – Draft:Shem Malmquist (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by MasterIBH (t · c) was declined by DoubleGrazing (t · c) on 23 Jul 2021
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Child projects and task forces
Sub-projects
WikiProject Aircraft
WikiProject Airlines
WikiProject Airports
WikiProject Gliding
Task forces
Aerospace biography task force
Air sports task force
Defunct airlines task force
Aircraft engines task force
Aviation accident task force
Military aviation task force
Rotorcraft task force
Other related projects
British military history task force (RAF)
Related portals
Aviation
Spaceflight
Transport
Project banner
The {{WikiProject Aviation}} project banner template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every article within the scope of the project. While the template does not require any additional parameters, it has a number of optional ones that add various extra features to the banner. The full syntax and usage instructions are listed on the template's documentation page.