NameExplanationExamplesPictures
A Autogyro A-4, A-7,A-7bis
Aeroflot Air Fleet, the State Aero Transportation Company.
AGOS Section for Aviation, Hydroaviation and Experimental Constructions
(Otdel) Aviatsii, Gidroaviatsii, Opytnogo Stroitelstva		 I-12 -
AIR
N
aming of aircraft in honor of A.I.Rykov, one of the Communist Party acting leaders was typical for early A.S.Yakovlev
All were renamed once Rykov was purged by Josef Stalin-Jugashvili
 AIR-4, AIR-10, and other AIR's
AK Initials of V.L.Alexandrov and V.V.Kalinin team AK-1
An Initials of Antonov Design Bureau;
Now Ukrainian, production base all over the CIS;		 An-2, An-12, An-225
APV 1909 aircraft project, designated after its head A.P.Vernander APV
ANTK, ASTC Aviatsionnyj Nauchno-Technicheskij Kompleks
Aeronatical Scientific Technical Complex
AV-MF Aviatcia Voenno-Morskogo Flota,
Military Sea Fleet Aviation		 -
Aviatrest Aiation Trust, predecessor of Aeroflot
ANT Original initials of Andrey Nikolaevich Tupolev bureau; ANT-1,ANT-20bis
ARK Arktichesky
Arctic Coastal Recce		 ARK-3, ARK-4, ARK-5 -
Ar Initials of Arhangelsky Design Team; Ar-2
ASK North Region's Amphibian
Amphibia Severnogo Kraja		 ASK
Aviakhim
Organization in support of Aviation and Chemical (Khimia, Chemistry) readiness.
Among other things named in honour of this (voluntarely, of course) organizations was the aircraft assembly plant, aircraft etc.
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Aviatrest Aiation Trust, predecessor of Aeroflot
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