• Airspace is the portion of the atmosphere controlled by a country above its territory, including its territorial waters or, more generally, any specific...
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    A prohibited airspace is an area (volume) of airspace within which flight of aircraft is not allowed, usually due to security concerns. It is one of many...
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  • The world's navigable airspace is divided into three-dimensional segments, each of which is assigned to a specific class. Most nations adhere to the classification...
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    Canadian airspace is the region of airspace above the surface of the Earth within which Canada has jurisdiction. It falls within a region roughly defined...
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  • During the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, the airspaces of non-combatant neighbouring countries, particularly Poland, Moldova, and Romania, have...
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    Controlled airspace is airspace of defined dimensions within which air traffic control (ATC) services are provided. The level of control varies with different...
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    The United States airspace system's classification scheme is intended to maximize pilot flexibility within acceptable levels of risk appropriate to the...
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  • In aviation, uncontrolled airspace is airspace in which an Air Traffic Control (ATC) service is not deemed necessary or cannot be provided for practical...
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  • A Soviet airspace violation may refer to: The hundreds of Nazi prewar incursions into Soviet airspace before Operation Barbarossa 1960 U-2 incident when...
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    Restricted airspace is an area of airspace typically used by the military in which the local controlling authorities have determined that air traffic...
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  • Military airspace is any area in which military aircraft are present and participate in a variety of activities. There are many kinds of airspace. A military...
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  • The National Airspace System (NAS) is the airspace, navigation facilities and airports of the United States along with their associated information, services...
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    landings), and cloud clearances. The exact requirements vary by type of airspace, whether it is day or night (for countries that permit night VFR), and...
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    Functional airspace block (FAB) is defined in the SES-2 legislative package, as follows: A FAB means an airspace block based on operational requirements...
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    services, airspace management (ASM), the purpose of which is to allocate air routes, zones, flight levels to different airspace users and the airspace structure...
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    Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland would damage aircraft engines, the controlled airspace of many European countries was closed to instrument flight rules traffic...
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  • The Airspace Use Plan (or AUP) is defined as "an Airspace Management (ASM) message of NOTAM status notifying the daily decision of an Airspace Management...
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    In aviation, a flight information region (FIR) is a specified region of airspace in which a flight information service and an alerting service (ALRS) are...
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    through a given section of controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airspace. The primary purpose of ATC is to...
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    Violations of Japanese airspace have occurred on a number of occasions. There have been 39 cases from 1967 to 2017. The vast majority have involved Soviet...
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    high-altitude balloon originating from China flew across North American airspace, including Alaska, western Canada, and the contiguous United States. On...
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  • main base and headquarters are in Antalya. The airline was banned from EU airspace in March 2024. Southwind Airlines was formally announced in April 2022...
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    cease overflights in Lebanese airspace". Haaretz. Retrieved 14 March 2011. "12 Israeli warplanes violate Lebanese airspace". The Daily Star. 19 August 2010...
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    airspace (Albanian: Incidentet e para ajrore), was a Cold War incident. On December 23, 1957, an American T-33 fighter jet violated Albanian airspace...
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  • Brazil's Department of Airspace Control (Portuguese: Departamento de Controle do Espaço Aéreo, DECEA) is a governmental military organization of the Aeronautics...
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  • In aviation, a control zone (CTR) is a volume of controlled airspace, usually situated below a control area, normally around an airport, which extends...
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    center, is a facility responsible for controlling aircraft flying in the airspace of a given flight information region (FIR) at high altitudes between airport...
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  • downed aircraft was a US drone. Iran filed a complaint to the UN over the airspace violation. Obama asked Iran to return the drone. Iran is said to have produced...
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  • Airspace Action on Smoking and Health (formerly Airspace Non-smokers' Rights Society) was a volunteer-based anti-tobacco organization in the Canadian province...
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    surveillance technologies and is being progressively incorporated into national airspaces worldwide. For example, it is an element of the United States Next Generation...
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