Aviation Associations & Websites
Aviation Associations
Associations can help you find people of like-interest -- to network, find professional magazines, licensing, information & employment.
- International Civil Aviation OrganizationA United Nations Agency
- National Air Traffic Controllers Association [Union]Legislative tab
- National Federation of Federal Employees [Union]Government union for Aerospace workers
Industry Websites
- Aerospace Industries AssociationWeb site of the trade association representing the nation's major aerospace and defense manufacturers. Includes news and industry publications.
- Airlines for AmericaThe only trade organization for the principal U.S. airlines (formerly the Air Transport Association).
- LandingsPlan a flight, get the latest news, read about new books and journals.
Government Regulations
- FAA -- Federal Aviation Administration -- Advisory CircularsIndexes to FAA Advisory Circulars. Some Advisory Circulars are available in full text online.
- FAA -- Federal Aviation Administration -- RegulationsLinks to regulatory web sites and related information. Current regulations via the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations and historical regulations via the FAA's regulatory guidance library.
- ICAO International Civil Aviation OrganizationUnited Nations specialized agency. We have some dated Standards & Recommended Practices Annexes on PERM RESERVE TL 500.5 C66, plus a few others up to TL 798.
- FAA: AirportsData, regulations, and other information regarding US airports.
- FAA TVSelection of videos regarding the aviation industry, celebrations, news, and public information in plain language.
Technical Reports & More
- AARL - US Army Aeromedical Research LaboratoryProvides technical reports from 1963 to the present related to safety and combat, including human factors, testing reports, and aircraft.
- Air University Library's Index to Military Publications (AULIMP) (public access)United States Air Force Website, ESPECIALLY SEARCH THE Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center (MSFRIC)/AULibrary
- DTIC OnlineSearches declassified Department of Defense and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related documents from the Defense Technical Information Center.
- Energy Citations DatabaseCitations to documents from the Department of Energy and the agencies preceded it, the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
- National Technical Reports Library (NTRL)Provides full-text access to over 700,000 federally-funded technical reports and bibliographic records of more than 2.2 million additional reports from the National Technical Reports Library.
- National Transportation Library -- ROSAP (public access)Also known as TRIS Online (Transportation Research Information Services). Repository & open science access portal for the U.S. Department of Transportation.
- Office of the Inspector General (U.S. Dept. of Transportation) This link opens in a new windowOIG conducts audits and investigations on behalf of the American public to improve the performance and integrity of DOT’s programs to ensure a safe, efficient, and effective national transportation system.
- DTIC Publications This link opens in a new windowPublic portal to the scientific and technical reports, scholarly publications, grant awards, and more administered by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). Formerly STInet.
- Transportation Research E-Newsletter This link opens in a new windowFree weekly electronic service designed to keep individuals up-to-date on TRB activities and to highlight selected transportation research related activities taking place at the federal and state levels and within the academic and international transportation communities.
- TRID Online (Transportation Research Information Database)TRID includes ITRD & TRIS (Transportation Research Information Services bibliographic database. A collaborative effort by the Transportation Research Board, part of the National Academies, and the National Transportation Library, part of Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) , Research and Innovative Technology Administration, (U.S. Department of Transportation).
- ADS--Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service [Public Access]NASA-funded database. Offers preprints and full text of articles from many scientific journals and conference proceedings. Includes the sections for astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, physics and geophysics, and LANL preprints, including arXiv. 1973-present.
- Institute of Physics (IOP) Journals This link opens in a new windowSearchable index of journals published by the Institute of Physics. Abstracts and article citations, with fulltext for selected titles the library subscribes to.
- NASA PubSpaceOpen access data and peer reviewed research sources. NASA is using PMC to permanently preserve and provide easy public access to the peer-reviewed papers resulting from NASA-funded research. Beginning with research funded in 2016, all NASA-funded authors and co-authors (both civil servant and non-civil servant) will be required to deposit copies of their peer-reviewed scientific publications and associated data into NASA’s publication repository called NASA PubSpace. This EXCLUDES patents, publications that contain material governed by personal privacy, export control, proprietary restrictions, or national security law or regulations. NASA PubSpace is part of PubMed Central (PMC) which is managed by the NIH.
- NASA Technical Reports ServerUnified interface to many different abstract and technical report servers maintained by various NASA centers and programs. NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), the predecessor of NASA, covers 1917-1958. NASA covers 1958-present.
- ScitationAmerican Institute of Physics resource. Physics & Astronomy topics. Any visitor to Scitation can freely browse the table of contents and abstracts (without reference links) of all journals. Full text available if the Library subscribes to journal. Most journals require a subscription to search within the journal. Search Scitation, SPIN and PUBMed from this site.
- American Meteorological Society [Public Access]AMS Journals Online (dealing with weather surrounding space flights, etc.)