This is a list of aircraft manufacturers sorted alphabetically by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)/common name. It contains the ICAO/common name, manufacturers name(s), country and other data, with the known years of operation in parentheses.
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The ICAO names are listed in bold. Having an ICAO name does not mean that a manufacturer is still in operation today. Just that some of the aircraft produced by that manufacturer are still flying.
- B/E Aerospace – United States, UK, UAE, www.beaerospace.com
- B&B Manufacturing Company – Valencia, Ca, www.bbmfg.com
- B&W, Boeing & Westervelt – United States, (1916) > Pacific Aero
- Babcock Aircraft Company
- British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) Ltd – United Kingdom, (1959–1977) > British Aerospace
- Bach Aircraft – United States
- Bachem, Bachem – Germany, (1944–1945)[1]
- Back Bone, Tallard, France
- Backcountry Super Cubs, Douglas, Wyoming, United States
- BAE Systems, BAE Systems PLC – United Kingdom, (1999–present)
- BAE Systems Australia, BAE Systems Australia Ltd – Australia
- BAI, Bureau of Aircraft Industry – Republic of China, (1946–1969) > Air Technical Bureau
- Bakeng, Bakeng Aircraft – United States
- Bakeng, Gerald Bakeng – United States
- Ball-Bartoe – United States
- Barkley-Grow, Barkley Grow Aircraft Corporation – United States
- Barnett, Barnett Rotorcraft – United States
- Barr, Barr Aircraft – United States
- Barrows, Bob Barrows – United States
- Bartel – Poland
- Bartlett Aircraft – United States
- Basler, Basler Turbo Conversions Inc – United States
- BAT, British Aerial Transport Co. Ltd. – United Kingdom
- Bay Aviation, Bay – United States
- Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, Bayerische Flugzeugwerke – Germany, (1926–1938) (BFW – Bavarian Aircraft Works) > Messerschmitt
- BDC Aero Industrie, Lachute, Quebec, Canada
- Bd-Micro, BD-Micro Technologies Inc – United States
- Beagle, Beagle Aircraft (1969) Ltd – United Kingdom, (?-1970) > Scottish Aviation
- Beagle, Beagle Aircraft Ltd – United Kingdom
- Beagle-Auster, Beagle-Auster Ltd – United Kingdom
- Beardmore, William Beardmore & Co – United Kingdom
- Beaujon Aircraft – United States
- Bede, BD Micro Technologies Inc – United States
- Bede, Bede Aircraft Corporation – United States
- Bede, Bede Aircraft Inc – United States
- Bede, Bede Aviation Corporation – United States
- Bede, Bede Jet Corporation – United States
- Bede, BEDEAmerica Aerosport LLC – United States
- Beech, Beech Aircraft Corporation – United States, (1932–1980) > Raytheon > Hawker Beechcraft
- Beech-Sferma, see BEECH and SFERMA – United States/France
- Beecraft, Bee Aviation Associates, Inc. – United States, (1948–1960)
- Beets, Glenn Beets – United States
- Beijing Keyuan, Beijing Keyuan Light Aircraft Industrial Company Ltd – China
- Belairbus, Belairbus – Belgium, (1979–present)
- Bel-Aire, Bel-Aire Aviation – United States
- Bell, Bell Aircraft Corporation – United States, (1935–1960)
- Bell, Bell Helicopter Company, Division of Bell Aerospace Corporation – United States, (1960–present)
- Bell, Bell Helicopter Textron Inc – United States
- Bell, Bell Helicopter Textron, Division of Textron Canada Ltd – Canada
- Bell, Bell Helicopter Textron, Division of Textron Inc – United States
- Bell-Agusta, Bell-Agusta Aerospace Company – United States/Italy
- Bellanca, Bellanca Aircraft Corporation – United States, (1927–1983) > AviaBellanca
- Bellanca, Bellanca Aircraft Engineering – United States
- Bellanca, Bellanca Inc – United States
- Bellanca, Bellanca Sales Manufacturing Inc – United States
- Bell-Boeing, see BELL and BOEING – United States
- Beneš & Hajn, Beneš & Hajn – Unknown, (1923) > Avia
- Beneš-Mráz – Czechoslovakia
- Bengis, Bengis Aircraft Company (Pty) Ltd – South Africa
- Bensen, Bensen Aircraft Corporation – United States, (?-1987)
- Bereznyak-Isayev, Alexander Yakovlevich Bereznyak and Alexei Mikhailovich Isayev – Soviet Union
- Berger, Hans Berger – Switzerland
- Beriev, Beriev OKB – Russia, (1934–present) (Beriev Aircraft Company)
- Beriev, Berieva Aviatsionnyi Kompaniya – Russia
- Beriev, Taganrogsky Aviatsionnyi Nauchno-Tekhnicheskiy Kompleks Imeni G. M. Berieva – Russia
- Berkut, Berkut Engineering Inc – United States
- Berliner, Berliner Aircraft Co. – United States, (1926–1929) > Berliner-Joyce
- Berliner-Joyce, Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corp. – United States, (1929–?)
- Bernard, Société des Avions Bernard – France
- Berwick, FW Berwick and Company Ltd. – United Kingdom
- Besson, Besson – France, (1915–1928) > ANF Mureaux
- Best Off, Best Off – France, (?-present)
- Bharat, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd – India
- Billie, Billie Aero Marine – France
- Bilsam Aviation, Poznań, Poland
- Binder, Binder Aviatik KG – Germany
- Birdman, Birdman Aircraft, US
- Birdman, Birdman Enterprises, Canada
- Bisnovat, Bisnovat – Russia
- Bitz, Bitz Flugzeugbau GmbH – Germany
- Bitz, Fa. Josef Bitz – Germany
- Blackburn, Blackburn Aircraft Ltd – United Kingdom, (1914–1949) > General Aircraft Ltd
- Blackshape srl, Monopoli, Italy
- Blackwing Sweden, Lund, Sweden
- Blériot, Société Blériot Aéronautique – France, (1906–1914) > Blériot-SPAD
- Blériot-SPAD, Blériot-SPAD – France, (1914–1936) > Sud-Ouest
- Blériot-Voisin, Blériot-Voisin – France, (1903–1906) > Blériot, Voisin
- Bloch, Societé des Avions Marcel Bloch – France, (1930–1936) (1945) > Sud-Ouest, Dassault
- Blohm & Voss, Blohm Und Voss – Germany, (1930–1969) > Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm
- Blue Yonder, Blue Yonder Aviation Inc – Canada
- Blume, Walter Blume – Germany
- B-N Group, B-N Group Ltd – United Kingdom, (1964–present) (Britten-Norman)
- Boeing, Boeing Aircraft Company – United States, (1916–present)
- Boeing, The Boeing Airplane Company – United States
- Boeing, The Boeing Company – United States
- Boeing Canada, Boeing Aircraft of Canada Ltd – Canada
- Boeing North American, Boeing North American, Inc. – United States, (1996–present)
- Boeing Vertol, Boeing Vertol Company – United States
- Boeing-Sikorsky, see BOEING and SIKORSKY – United States
- Boeve, Boeve Fiberglass Components Inc – United States
- Bohemia, Bohemia – Czech Republic
- Boisavia, Société Boisavia – France
- Bolkow, Bölkow-Apparatebau GmbH – Germany, (1948–1968) > Messerschmitt-Bölkow
- Bolkow, Bölkow-Entwicklungen GmbH – Germany
- Booth Aerospace North America – United States
- Bombardier, Bombardier Inc – Canada, (1986–present)
- Borel, Etablissements Borel, France > SGCIM
- Boulton & Paul Ltd United Kingdom, (1914–1934)
- Boulton Paul Aircraft Ltd – United Kingdom, (1934–1961)
- Bowers, Peter M. Bowers – United States
- Bradley, Bradley Aerospace – United States
- Brandenburg, Brandenburg – Germany
- Brandli, Max Brändli – Switzerland
- Brantly, Brantly Helicopter Corporation – United States
- Brantly, Brantly Helicopter Industries USA Company Ltd – United States
- Brantly, Brantly International Inc (Helicopter Division) – United States
- Brantly-Hynes, Brantly-Hynes Helicopter Inc – United States, (1975–?)
- Bratukhin, Bratukhin – Russia, (1940–1951)
- Brditschka, H. W. Brditschka OHG – Austria
- Brditschka, HB-Brditschka GmbH & Co KG – Austria
- Breda, Societa Italiana Ernesto Breda – Italy
- Bredanardi, BredaNardi Costruzione Aeronautiche SpA – Italy
- Breguet, Société des Ateliers d'Aviation Louis Bréguet – France, (1911–1969) > Dassault-Breguet
- Brewster, Brewster Aeronautical Corporation – United States, (1932–1946)
- Brian Allen, Brian Allen Aviation – United Kingdom
- Briegleb, Gus Briegleb – US
- Bristol, Bristol Aircraft Ltd – United Kingdom, (1910–1959) > British Aircraft Corporation
- Bristol, The Bristol Aeroplane Company Ltd – United Kingdom
- Bristol Helicopter, Bristol Helicopter Ltd. – United Kingdom, (1944–1969) > Westland Aircraft
- British Aerospace, British Aerospace – United Kingdom, (1977–1999) (BAe) > BAE Systems
- British Aerospace, British Aerospace PLC – United Kingdom
- British Aircraft Company, British Aircraft Company – United Kingdom
- British Aircraft Manufacturing, British Aircraft Mfg. Co. – United Kingdom, (BAMC)
- British Klemm, British Aircraft Klemm Aeroplane Co Ltd. – United Kingdom, > British Aircraft Mfg. Co.
- Britten-Norman, Britten-Norman (Bembridge) Ltd – United Kingdom
- Britten-Norman, Britten-Norman Ltd – United Kingdom, (1964–present)
- BRM Costruções Aeronáuticas, Pero Pinheiro, Portugal
- Brochet, Constructions Aéronautiques Maurice Brochet – France
- Ken Brock Manufacturing, Stanton, California, United States
- Brokaw, Bergon Brokaw – US
- Brooklands, Brooklands Aerospace Ltd – United Kingdom
- Brooklands, Brooklands Aircraft Ltd – United Kingdom
- Brügger, Max Brügger – Switzerland
- Brush Electrical, Brush Electrical Engineering Co. Ltd. – United Kingdom, (Originally Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation)
- Brutsche Aircraft Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- Buchanan, Buchanan Aircraft Corporation Ltd – Australia
- Bucker, Bücker Flugzeugbau GmbH – Germany, (1932–1945)
- Bucker Prado, Bücker Prado SL – Spain
- București, Intreprinderea de Avioane București – Romania
- Budd Manufacturing, Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Company – United States
- Buethe, Buethe Enterprises Inc – United States
- Buhl, Buhl Aircraft Company – United States
- Bul, Bourgogne Ultra Léger Aviation – France
- Burgess, Burgess Company – United States, (1911–1916) (Originally Burgess Company and Curtis, Inc.)
- Büttner Propeller, Gerald Büttner – Obernkirchen, Obernkirchen, Germany
- Burl's Aircraft, Chugiak, Alaska – United States, (1982–Present)
- Burnelli, Burnelli Aircraft Co. – United States
- Bushby, Bushby Aircraft Inc – United States
- Bushby, Bushby Aircraft Inc – United States
- Bye Aerospace, Englewood, Colorado, United States
- C. Itoh, C. Itoh & Co – Japan, (1955–1970) > JAMCO
- CAARP, Cooperatives des Ateliers Aéronautiques de la Région Parisienne – France
- CAB, Constructions Aéronautiques du Béarn – France
- Cable-Price, Cable-Price Corporation – New Zealand
- Cabrinha, Cabrinha Aircraft Corporation – United States
- Cabrinha, Cabrinha Engineering Inc – United States
- CAG, Construcciones Aeronáuticas de Galicia – Spain
- Caldas Aeronautica, Pali, Colombia
- Calipt'Air, Spiez, Switzerland
- Callair, Call Aircraft Company – United States, (1939–1959) > IMCO
- Callair, Callair Inc – United States
- Calumet, Calumet Motorsports Inc – United States
- Camair, Camair Aircraft Corporation – United States
- Camair, Camair Division of Cameron Iron Works Inc – United States
- CAMCO, Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company – China, CAMCO
- Cameron, Cameron & Sons Aircraft – United States
- Campana, Campana Aviation – France
- CAMS, Chantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine – France
- CAMS, Cairns Development Company – United States, (or Cairns Aircraft (E. B. Cams))
- Calumet Motorsports, Lansing, Illinois, United States
- Canada Air RV, Canada Air RV Inc – Canada
- Canadair, Bombardier Aerospace Canadair – Canada, (?-1986) > Bombardier Aerospace
- Canadair, Canadair Group of Bombardier Inc – Canada
- Canadair, Canadair Inc – Canada
- Canadair, Canadair Ltd – Canada
- Canadian Aeroplanes, Canadian Aeroplanes Ltd. – Canada
- Canadian Car & Foundry, Canadian Car & Foundry Co. – Canada
- Canadian Home Rotors, Canadian Home Rotors Inc – Canada
- Canadian Vickers, Canadian Vickers Ltd – Canada
- Canard Aviation – Switzerland
- CANSA, Cansa – Italy
- CANT, Cantiere Navale Triestino – Italy, (?-1931) > CRDA
- CAO/SNCAO, Societe Nationale de Construction Aeronautique de l'Ouest – France
- CAP – Companhia Aéronautica Paulista – Brazil
- CAP Aviation, CAP Aviation – France
- Capella, Capella Aircraft Corporation, Austin, Texas, United States
- Caproni, Caproni – Italy, (1908–1983) > Agusta
- Caproni Vizzola, Caproni Vizzola Costruzione Aeronautiche SpA – Italy
- Carlson, Carlson Aircraft Inc – United States
- CARMAM, Coopérative d'Approvisionnement et de Réparation de Matériel Aéronautique de Moulins – France
- Carplane GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany
- Carriou, Louis Carriou – France
- Carstedt, Carstedt – United Kingdom
- Cartercopters, CarterCopters LLC – United States
- CASA, Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA – Spain
- Caspar, Caspar-Werke – Germany
- Cassutt, Thomas K. Cassutt – United States
- CATA, Construction Aéronautique de Technologie Avancée – France
- Caudron, British Caudron Co Ltd. – United Kingdom, (Last aircraft made in 1919, went into receivership 1924.)
- Caudron, Caudron – France, (1909–?)
- Cavalier, Cavalier Aircraft Corp. – United States, (?-1971) > Piper Aircraft
- CCF, Canadian Car & Foundry Company Ltd – Canada
- CEI, CEI – United States
- Celier Aviation, CA – Poland
- Celair, Celair (Pty) Ltd – South Africa
- Centrair, SA Centrair – France
- Central Aircraft Company, Central Aircraft Company Limited – United Kingdom
- Centrala Flygverkstaden Malmslätt (CFM) – Sweden
- Centrala Verkstaden Malmslätt (CVM) – Sweden
- Centre Est, Centre Est Aéronautique – France
- Century, Century Aircraft Corporation – United States
- CERVA, Consortium Européen de Réalisation et de Vente d'Avions GIE – France
- Cessna, Cessna Aircraft Company – United States, (1927–present)
- Cessna-Roos, Cessna-Roos Aircraft Company – United States, (1927) > Cessna Aircraft
- Clyde Cessna, Clyde Cessna – United States, (1911) (Clyde Vernon Cessna) > Travel Air
- Cessna-Reims, Cessna-Reims – United States/France
- CFA, Compagnie Française d'Aviation – France
- CFM, CFM Aircraft Ltd – United Kingdom
- CFM, Cook Flying Machines, CFM Metal Fax Ltd – United Kingdom
- CFM Air, Ciriè, Italy
- CGS Aviation, Grand Bay, Alabama, United States
- Chadwick, Chadwick Helicopters – United States
- Chalard, Jacques et Renée Chalard – France
- Champion, Champion Aircraft Company Inc – United States, (1954–1970) > Bellanca
- Champion, Champion Aircraft Corporation – United States
- Chance Vought, Chance Vought Aircraft Inc – United States, (1922–1961) > Vought
- Chance Vought, Chance Vought Corporation – United States
- Changhe, Changhe Aircraft Factory – China
- Changhe, Changhe Aircraft Industries Corporation – China
- Changhe, Changhe Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation – China
- Chasle, Yves Chasle – France
- Chayair, Chayair Manufacturing and Aviation – South Africa
- Chengdu, Chengdu Aircraft Industrial Corporation – China
- Chernov, Opytnyi Konstruktorskoye Byuro Chernov B & M OOO – Russia
- Chetverikov, Chetverikov – Russia, (Igor Vyacheslavovich Chetverikov)
- Chichester-Miles, Chichester-Miles Consultants Ltd – United Kingdom
- Chilton, Chilton Aircraft – United Kingdom, (1937–?)
- Chincul, Chincul SACAIFI – Argentina
- Chris Tena, Chris Tena Aircraft Association – United States
- Chrislea, Chrislea Aircraft Co. Ltd. – United Kingdom
- Christen, Christen Industries Inc – United States
- Chu, Major General C.J. Chu – Republic of China
- Cicaré, Cicaré Helicópteros SA – Argentina
- Cierva, Cierva Autogyro Company – United Kingdom, (Juan de la Cierva)
- Circa, Circa Reproductions – Canada
- Cirrus, Cirrus Design Corporation – United States, (1984–present)
- Citroen-Marchetti, Citroen-Marchetti – France
- Civil Aviation Department of India – India
- Claassen, Claassen – United States
- CLASS, Canadian Light Aircraft Sales and Services Inc – Canada
- Classic, Classic Aircraft Corporation (WACO Classic Aircraft Corporation) – United States
- Classic Fighter, Classic Fighter Industries Inc – United States
- Classic Sport, Classic Sport Aircraft – United States
- Claudius Dornier, Claudius Dornier Seastar GmbH & Co KG – Germany
- Claxton High School – United States
- Clément-Bayard – France
- Clifford Aeroworks, Clifford Aeroworks – United States
- Clutton, Eric Clutton – United Kingdom
- CMASA, Costruzioni Meccaniche Aeronautiche Società Anonima – Italy
- CNA, Compagnia Nazionale Aeronautica – Italy
- CNIAR, Centrul National al Industriei Aeronautice Române – Romania
- CNNA, Companhia Nacional de Navegação Aérea – Brazil
- Coandă, Henri Coandă – Romania, (1910–1911) (Henri Marie Coandă) > Bristol
- COBELAVIA, Compagnie Belge d'Aviation – Belgium
- Cobra, Cobra Aviation – Australia
- Cody, Samuel Cody – United Kingdom, (Samuel Franklin Cody)
- Colemill, Colemill Enterprises Inc – United States
- Collins, Collins Aero – United States
- Colomban, Michel Colomban – France
- Colombia, Columbia Aircraft Company – United States
- Colonial, Colonial Aircraft Corporation – United States
- COMAC, Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China – China (2008–present)
- Commander, Commander Aircraft Company – United States
- Commonwealth (1), Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Pty Ltd – Australia (CAC)
- Commonwealth (2), Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Inc – United States, (1942–1947)
- Comper, Comper Aircraft Co. Ltd. – United Kingdom, (1929–?)
- Comte, Comte Aircraft Factory – Switzerland
- Conair, Conair Group Inc. – Canada
- Condor Powered Parachutes, Nicholson, Georgia, United States, (later called Southern Powered Parachutes)
- Conroy, Conroy Aircraft Corporation – United States
- Consolidated Aeronautics Corporation – manufactured Lake aircraft in the 1960s–70s – United States
- Consolidated, Consolidated Aircraft Corporation – United States
- Continental Copters, Continental Copters Inc – United States
- Convair, Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corporation – United States, (1943–1996) > General Dynamics
- Convair, Convair Division of General Dynamics Corporation – United States
- Corben Sport Plane and Supply Company (US) – founded 1931, sold to Paul Poberezny in 1952
- Corby, John C. Corby – Australia
- Cosy, Cosy Europe – Germany
- Country Air, Country Air Inc – United States
- Coupe, Coupé-Aviation – France
- Cox-Klemin, Cox-Klemin Aircraft Corporation – United States
- Co-Z, Co-Z Development Corporation – United States
- Co-Z, Co-Z Europa – Germany
- Crae, CRAE Elettromeccanica SpA – Italy
- Craiova, Intreprinderea de Avioane Craiova – Romania
- Cranfield, Cranfield Institute of Technology, College of Aeronautics – United Kingdom
- CRDA, Cantiere Riuniti dell'Adriatico – Italy (1931–?)
- Creative Flight, Creative Flight Inc – Canada
- Croses, Emilien Croses – France
- CSS, Centralne Studium Samolotów – Poland
- CTRM, Composites Technology Research Malaysia Sdn Bhd – Malaysia
- Cub, Cub Aircraft Company – Canada
- Cub Crafters, Cub Crafters Inc – United States
- Culp, Culps Specialties – United States
- Culver, Culver Aircraft Company – United States
- Cunliffe-Owen, Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft – United Kingdom
- Curtiss, Curtiss-Wright Corporation – United States, (1929–present)
- Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company – United States, (1909–1929) > Curtiss-Wright
- Curtiss-Reid Aircraft Ltd., Curtiss-Reid Aircraft Ltd. – Canada
- Custer Channel Wing Corporation, Hagerstown, Maryland – United States
- Custom Flight, Custom Flight Components Ltd – Canada
- Custom Flight Limited, Tiny, Ontario, Canada
- Cvjetkovic, Anton Cvjetkovic – United States
- C.W. Aircraft Ltd – United Kingdom > General Aircraft Ltd
- CWL, Centralne Warsztaty Lotnicze – Poland
- CZAW, Czech Aircraft Works SRO – Czech Republic
- Cyclone Manufacturing Inc., Mississauga, Ontario, Canada (Aerospace Parts Manufacturing)
- CZL, Centralne Zaklady Lotnicze – Poland, (Central Aviation Establishment)
- Cirrus aircraft co.
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