Air fleet

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Air fleet refers to the totality of all aircraft and helicopters in a military aviation organization.

Military aviation

A military air fleet (also air army) characterizes the totality of the airborne weapon systems and means of transport of an air force of a country or of irregular troops.

The term also stands for:

• a group of aircraft assigned to a military airfield or an air force association,
• an outdated form of organization of a large association or command authority of military air forces. Was described in the course of the Second World War as an association that was temporarily composed of several sub-groups of air forces depending on the tasks to be solved.

Usage of terms

The German Wehrmacht used the term to group their air force units (analogous to the division of the German army into armies ).

The US Air Force also has Numbered Air Forces (NAF) .

Civil aviation

The term "Luftflotte" does not exist in German in the civilian sector. Here one speaks of "aircraft fleet", "aircraft park" or simply "fleet". A civil fleet comprises the entire inventory of aircraft of an airline , such as transport and passenger aircraft as well as civil helicopters.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinz AF Schmidt: Lexicon aviation . VEB transpress, East Berlin 1971, p. 235.