AFB - Air Force Base - Aviation Term - Abbreviation / Acronym
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GSA
GHA
Military Operations Area (MOA)
ATA - Air Transport Association
MRO ...
AFB - air force base, usually U.S. or Canadian.
AFCS - automatic flight control system, an advanced autopilot. Also IFCS, integrated flight control system.
AFDS - Autopilot and flight director system.
Beale AFB, USA
[edit] Official records versus unofficial
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird holds the official Air Speed Record for a manned airbreathing jet aircraft with a speed of 2,194 mph (3,529.56 km/h).
AFB: Air Force Base
AFBC: Air Force Base Command
AF Comp Cmd: Air Force Composite Command
AFPAC: US Army Forces Pacific
AFSC: Air Force Services Command
AG: Adjutant General
AGF: Army Ground Forces ...
AFB: Air Force Base
AFCS: Automatic Flight Control System. It is an advanced autopilot.
AFDS: Autopilot and Flight Director System
AGL: Above Ground Level
AIRMET: Aircraft's Meteorological Information.
F-15D from the 325 Fighter Wing based in Tyndall AFB, releasing flaresThe single-seat F-15C and two-seat F-15D models entered the Air Force inventory beginning in 1979.
AFB - Air Force Base
AFRC - Air Force Reserve Command
AIS pod - The pods carried by aircraft at Red and Green Flag so that ground controllers and instructors can keep track of ACMs in real time
ALCM - Air Launched Cruise Missile ...
PACAF- Pacific Air Forces headquartered at Hickam AFB, HI
PIT- Pilot Instructor Training, the very happy place where they send all the new FAIPs who won't be flying an MWS for another 4 years.
We asked the people in the office at Avra Valley about the Davis Monthan AFB aircraft bone yard. They said to ask Tuscon Approach for permission to overfly it.
There was a pair of F-4 Phantoms parked side by side, one of them in the relatively new gray scheme belonging to the last full scale Phantom operation in the US at Holloman AFB.
GROUND LIAISION OFFICER (GLO). An officer assigned to XVIII ABN CORPS and attached to the 43rd Air Lift Wing at Pope AFB Command Post and assists with Army/Air Force coordination during joint airborne and airland movement operations.
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