Aerospace manufacturer

An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, and/or spacecraft. Having a just that some of the aircraft produced by that manufacturer are still flying.

This is a list of aircraft manufacturers sorted alphabetically by International Civil Aviation Organization common name. It contains the ICAO/common name, manufacturers name country and other data, with the known years of operation in parenthesis. The ICAO names are listed in bold.

An aviation accident is roughly defined in the Convention on International as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, in which a person is fatally or seriously injured inaccessible.

An aviation incident is also defined there as an occurrence other than an accident, associated with the operation of an aircraft, which affects or could affect the safety of operations. An accident in which the damage to the aircraft is such that it must be written off, or in which the plane is destroyed is called a hull loss incident.