You'll hear many strange sounding names being used on the Military frequencies to identify gound stations, aircraft, or ships at sea. These "strange names" are called CallSigns. Many times callsigns for a particular aircraft will change depending on the mission. However there are a great many callsigns which do not change. Once you learn to recognize various callsigns you'll be able to identify what base a particular aircraft might be flying out of or what type of mission he is on.

This is by no means a complete list of callsigns and many of the callsigns on this list might be out of date (remember I did say above they can change depending on mission). However a great number of the below callsigns are current and being used today. Many of which I've personally heard as recent as 6/17/02.

In the operation of this website I receive many emails daily where people give me callsigns and what they are associated with. I want to thank all those who have contributed. I've also used many other sources in the collection of callsigns. If you have corrections or additions to this list you are welcome to send them to av8tor@licensed4fun.com.

Hopefully in the near future I would like to put a "hot link" beside most of the callsigns which will take you to a picture of that exact aircraft. I've got many pictures which I can confirm the callsign used, it would be a nice feature to click on the callsign and get the actual picture. But that is a work in progress.....

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