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On the military side, I think we've over-categorized.
IMO, we should restrict it to Fighter, Ground attack, Strategic bomber and Support.
The support category would essentially include all military aircraft that are not included in the other categories. This would include transport, trainers, recon, electronic warefare etc. The Category Information Section (CIS) would detail which aircraft served which purpose.
The support category could include sub-categories if there are enough of that type of craft to merit one.
There would also be a higher level category for recon, trainers etc.. This would mean that many aircraft would have several categories (ex. NATION support aircraft (19xx-19xx), NATION recon aircraft, Recon aircraft (19xx-19xx)), but each of them would be substationally more filled out. The would obviously be negated if there are enough in NATION recon aircraft (19xx-19xx)
Ground attack would include tactical bombers and other light aircraft designed to take out specific land-based targets.
Fighter-bombers would be categorized under fighters (again, with the CIS pointing them out) and mentioned in the ground attack category if they were used heavily in that role. The CIS would also indicate which are night fighters, long range escort fighters etc.
We would use the primary role that the aircraft filled as it's basis of categorization, and, in the case of multi-role craft, list it on the CIS of the other categories (ie. The De_Havilland_Mosquito would be categorized as a Strategic bomber, but be mentioned under the Fighter and Support categories.) Oberiko 14:27, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Many of the 'US aircraft...' (and similar) categories have been put up on WP:CfD to be moved from 'US' to 'U.S.' (See the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#US_vs_U.S.) Also, at least a few of us believe that many of these categories are too specific. Some categories only have a single article with little hope of adding more, and users are required to navigate through multiple layers of categories to find the articles. Using the Swiss military trainers as an example (because there are so few), I was able to reassign the 5 articles to two categories each and eliminate 10 categories from the structure without any loss of information. See the result at Category:Swiss military trainer aircraft. This is a much simpler structure with no loss of information. —Mike 06:41, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)
With the passage of the Sport Pilot rules in the US, there should be an additional category of Light Sport Aircraft as they are legally a new category of aircraft.
Also, there should be some kind of reconciliation of LSA in the US vs. Ultralight/Microlight in the rest of the world. Mcneight 02:35, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
I am currently working on a category overhaul. Redundant categories may be nominated for category deletion. The goal of this project is to make it fairly easy to categorise aircraft and be able to go to the WP:AIRCRAFT category page to find what categories are needed for a given article. Any help with this would be appreciated! Thanks. Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 13:06, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
I have finalised my proposal and typed up a summary of my proposed changes at Proposed update. Please leave comments. Karl Dickman talk 02:45, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Just wanted to add that The Cape Town Treaty should add towards defining aircraft types since it expressly makes a statement of the calculation of payloads and passengers.
Based on this, and the common 'light', 'medium' and 'large' arbitrary divisions, I found that performance very much affects how manufacturers designate their aerocraft in the general aviation, never mind military aviation. Below are some example to what lengths manufacturers go to describe their products just in the light category that is outside the Treaty:
Unlimited competition aerobatic aircraft
Single-sit utility
Piston & turboprop powered agricultural aircraft
Biplane agricultural aircraft
Biplane utility transport
1 and two seat aerobatic and training light aircraft
1 and two seat aerobatic light aircraft
1 and two seat competition aerobatic biplanes
Light piston powered utility helicopters
Light turbine powered utility helicopter
Ag spraying and firefighter aircraft
2 and five seat light aircraft
2 and four seat light aircraft
2 or three seat light utility helicopter
2 seat aerobatic capable light aircraft
2 seat aerobatic light aircraft
2 seat agricultural aircraft
2 seat basic and aerobatic trainer
2 seat basic trainer
2 seat basic trainer and aerobatic light aircraft
2 seat biplane light aircraft
2 seat light aircraft
2 seat light aircraft and basic trainer
2 seat pilot training aircraft
2 seat piston engined light helicopter
2 seat primary and aerobatic capable trainer
2 seat sport, utility and agricultural biplane
2 seat trainer and high performance light aircraft
2 seat utility and aerobatic light aircraft
2 seat utility light aircraft
2, three and four place light aircraft
2/four place light helicopter
2/three seat basic trainer
Light twin turboshaft utility helicopter
Light twin engine utility and training helicopter
3 and five seat light helicopters
3 and four seat light aircraft
4 seat light twin
4-5 seat STOL capable light aircraft
Four or six place business, utility & advanced pilot training twin
Four or six place light business twin
Four place piston engined light helicopter
Four seat amphibious light aircraft
four seat High performance jet powered light aircraft
four seat High performance light aircraft
Four seat light aircraft
Four seat light utility aircraft
Four to six place light aircraft
Four to six seat high performance light aircraft
Four to six seat light piston twins
Four to six seat STOL utility light aircraft
Four to six seat utility light aircraft
four/five seat High performance light aircraft
Four/five seat light aircraft
Four/five seat light twin
Four/six place amphibious light aircraft
Five place light utility helicopter
Five place multi purpose light utility helicopter
Six place light twin
Six seat business twin
Six seat corporate and utility transport
Six seat corporate turboprop
Six seat high performance light aircraft
Six seat high performance light twin
Six seat light piston twin
Six seat light twin
Six seat utility light aircraft
six to eight seat pressurised cabin twins
Six to nine seat corporate/utility tiltrotor
Six/eight place cabin twin
Six/eight seat corporate transport and commuter airliner
Six/seven place light twin
Seven place light twin turbine utility helicopter
Seven place utility helicopter
Eight place light utility helicopter
Eight seat commuter airliner and executive transport
Eight seat utility amphibian
Eight seat utility light aircraft
Light twin helicopter
Light twin utility helicopter
Light utility amphibian
Light utility helicopter
Light utility transport
Twin engine light utility helicopters
Light corporate jet
Any attempt to describe any of the above as 'light' aerocraft would immediately misrepresent the manufacturer specification, the work of the design engineers, and the performance characteristics of the vehicle--Mrg3105 14:49, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Why missiles? How do missiles fall under the Aircraft Wikiproject? Understand my questioning-I am new to Wikiproject Aircraft. But I must know why cruise missiles is listed as a catagory.
I also agree with many members above. In my opinion, the sub categories should be organized in a chronological fashion-beginning from the earliest flying machine available to modern aircraft. ChockStock 05:17, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
I came across an orphaned aviation-related article, Aviation ground support equipment. Do we need to add a category for such equipment? Askari Mark (Talk) 23:40, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Would someone more au fait with creating categories please have a look at "Category:Triplane aircraft"? I'm afraid I just jumped in and (tried to?) create this category, without (a) checking whether this had already been proposed and rejected and (b) asking for help! In its present state is shows the Felixstowe Fury, for which I created it, and one other - so it seems to 'work' - but it still shows up red. Before any more aircraft are added to this category it needs to be right. Help! And thanks in advance. --TraceyR (talk) 12:24, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
I suggest that it would be useful to create, under "Seaplanes and flying boats", the subcategory "Amphibious aircraft". There are several amphibious aircraft, some of which are mentioned in the article of the same name, but there is no easy way of finding them and others. A category would provide this route. Pros and cons? Thanks. --TraceyR (talk) 12:09, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Please join the discussion in Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Aircraft#Glider_category, which turned into a rather generic issue. - Altenmann >t 20:46, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
A Turboprop section should be added tot he business aircraft as the king air, pilatus, piaggio and other notable aircraft are not included as business aircraft and do not sit in the correct categories. any thoughts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Slickh20 (talk • contribs) 15:24, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
I was reviewing Category:United States agricultural aircraft and its five subcategories (each one being a decade's worth of aircraft). I all of the subcategories, there are only a total of twenty (20) aircraft listing. I suggest that it would make more sense to delete the subcategories and put those 20 articles in the main category. Feedback? --rogerd (talk) 01:49, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
The "Primary categorisation" section of this article uses "Category:British fighter aircraft 1930-1939" as an example, but the tree shown in the example doesn't match the actual tree as it currently exists. For example the category is (redundantly) under "Category:British aircraft 1930-1939". The example says "Fighter aircraft (as above)", but it's not shown above. Could someone with more knowledge of categories than me take a look at it ? DexDor (talk) 20:34, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
We appear to projects and unflown aircraft slightly differently the current guideline says Aircraft projects that were cancelled without ever flying are categorised by the year the project was terminated or abandoned (ie, the closest that they got to a first flight.) these are also put in a cancelled or abandoned (not sure of the difference!) categories sometimes. Currently new aircraft that have not flown are being put in a Proposed aircraft of foo cat and are not moved into a dated role cat until they have flown. Should older abandoned/cancelled aircraft be treated the same, that is if they were only programmes or ideas that didnt fly they should not really be in the decade role cats, would it be better to organise the abandoned/cancelled categories better perhaps by decade. Any thoughts. MilborneOne (talk) 14:18, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
All the hard work would be in the parent cats rather than the articles and it would restrict the many cats in the article. MilborneOne (talk) 20:02, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Well, since I made a right hash of the above (and bearing in mind AHunt's comment), perhaps letting sleeping bears lie is the way to go (and to mix metaphors), but if there's no objection I'll go ahead and start removing "Fooian foofighters 1492-1776" categories from aircraft that didn't fly. - The Bushranger One ping only 21:33, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
WP:AIR/C#Era currently says "Aircraft projects that were cancelled without ever flying are categorised by the year the project was terminated or abandoned (ie, the closest that they got to a first flight.)". The discussion above and the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Aircraft#Role_cats (July 2013) indicate that some editors think this should be changed (perhaps replaced by a reference to Category:Cancelled aircraft projects). On the other hand, it would make for a somewhat simpler category system if we instead deleted (listified?) the cancelled/abandoned categories and kept #Era as it has been since 2004. Also the current cancelled/abandoned categories blur the line between articles about aircraft types and articles about projects/programs (e.g. the articles under Category:Military aircraft procurement programs). DexDor (talk) 19:25, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
There's a discussion at Category_talk:Military_aircraft_of_World_War_II#Proposal_to_tighten_up_inclusion_criteria. DexDor (talk) 12:24, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
Several categories containing articles about aircraft types (categories not currently mentioned in WP:AIR/C) are under discussion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_November_6#Category:Torpedo_bombers. DexDor (talk) 20:26, 10 November 2013 (UTC)