What are the areas of aviation?

There are a few different sectors of aviation, with three being the main pillars that uphold the aviation industry as a whole: commercial, general, and military aviation.



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Classifications also correspond closer to the airman certificate categories than they do the aircraft categories.
  • Airplane – Single-engine land or sea or multi-engine land or sea.
  • Rotorcraft – helicopter or gyroplane.
  • Lighter-Than-Air – balloons or airships.
  • Powered Parachutes – land or sea.


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By company revenue Delta Air Lines is the largest by revenue, assets value and market capitalization. American Airlines Group is the largest by number of employees.

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  • Propulsion Engineer.


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Regional airports support regional economies by connecting communities to statewide and interstate markets. Local airports provide access to intrastate and interstate markets. Basic airports link communities to the national airport system and support general aviation activities.

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Sir George Cayley In 1799, the man known as the “Father of Aviation” drew up the earliest known plans for an aircraft that used a fixed-wing design with separate mechanisms for lift and thrust.

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