aircraft

machine that is able to fly by gaining support from the air other than the reactions of the air against the earth’s surface
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Summary

aircraft is a mode of transport[1]. aircraft ranks in the top 8% of mode of transport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,845 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: type of vehicle[3]
  • Operator: Algerian People's National Armed Forces[4], Argentine Army Aviation[5], Argentine Air Force[6], Argentine Naval Aviation[7], Chilean Army Aviation[8], Chilean Air Force[9], Armed Forces of Chile[10], Chilean Naval Aviation[11], Bundeswehr[12]
  • Subclass of: flying machine[13], vehicle[14]
  • Commons category: Aircraft[15]
  • Has part(s): aircraft cockpit[16]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Aircraft[17]
  • Commons gallery: Aircraft[18]
  • Topic has template: Template:Aircraft specifications[19]
  • Has characteristic: aircraft class[20], aircraft type[21], aircraft model[22], aircraft family[23]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Aircraft[24]
  • Different from: rocket[25]
  • Properties for this type: P878[26], P1470[27], P1956[28], P1637[29], P2362[30], P426[31]
  • Has part(s) of the class: airplane[32], helicopter[33]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01001488[34]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[35], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[36]
  • Related category: Category:Individual aircraft[37]
  • Category for the view from the item: Category:Views from aircraft[38]

Why It Matters

aircraft has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] aircraft is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [39] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [40] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Putnik · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  2. 11d ago · O Breixo · 2026-10-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 116
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  5. 15w ago · AHIOH · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → mode of transport, type of vehicle
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  6. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002651-letadla
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  7. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007538568005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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