The aircraft industry is the industry supporting aviation by building aircraft and aircraft parts. This includes aircraft and parts used for civil aviation and military aviation. Most production is done pursuant to type certificates and Defense Standards issued by a government body. This term has been largely subsumed by the more encompassing term: "aerospace industry". Aviation refers to flying using aircraft, machines designed by humans for atmospheric flight. ... Look up aircraft in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Civil airliner - Air India Boeing 747-400 Civil aviation is one of two major categories of flying, representing all non-Military aviation, both private and commercial. ... It has been suggested that Aerial warfare be merged into this article or section. ... A Type Certificate (sometimes called Airworthiness Certificate), is awarded by aviation regulating bodies (such as FAA in US and EASA in EU) to aerospace firms after it has been established that the particular design of aircraft, engines or propeller submitted has fulfilled the regulating bodies current prevailing airworthiness requirements for... A United States Defense Standard, often called a military standard, MIL-STD, or MIL-SPEC, is used to help achieve standardization objectives by the U.S. Department of Defense. ... Look up aerospace in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...