An aircraft station (also aircraft radio station) is – according to Article 1.83 of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) ITU Radio Regulations (RR)[1] – defined as "A mobile radio station in the aeronautical mobile service, other than survival craft station, located on board an aircraft".
Each station shall be classified by the service in which it operates permanently or temporarily.
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desig- nation | Terrestrial station | Earth station | Space station | Survival craft station | Fixed station | High altitude platform station | Mobile station | Mobile earth station | Land station | Land earth station | Base station | Base earth station | Land mobile station | Land mobile earth station | Coast station | Coast earth station | Ship station | Ship earth station | On-board communication station | Port station | Aeronautical station | Aeronautical earth station | Aircraft station | Aircraft earth station | Broadcasting station | Radiodetermination station | Radionavigation mobile station | Radionavigation land station | Radiolocation mobile station | Radiolocation land station | Radio direction-finding station | Radio beacon station | Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station | Satellite emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station | Standard frequency and time signal station | Amateur station | Radio astronomy station | Experimental radio station | Ship's emergency transmitter | Radar | Primary radar | Secondary radar | Radar beacon (racon) | Instrument landing system (ILS) | ILS localizer | ILS glide path | Marker beacon | Radio altimeter | Radiosonde | Space system | Satellite system | Satellite network | Satellite link | Multi-satellite link | Feeder link | Emergency locator beacon |
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