Term	Explanation	Examples
A	Autogyro	A-4, A-7, A-7bis
Aeroflot	Air Fleet, the State Aero Transportation Company.	Aeroflot Site
AFA	Airborne Photo Apparatus, Aviatsionnyj FotoApparat
AGON	AviaGruppa Osobogo Naznacheniya Air Group for Special Duties
AGOS,	Section for Aviation, Hydroaviation and Experimental Constructions (Otdel) Aviatsii, Gidroaviatsii, Opytnogo Stroitelstva	I-12
AIR	Naming 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
AK	Aviatsionnyj Kompleks Aviation Complex	-
AKAFU	Avtomaticheskaja Kachaushajasa Aviatsionnaja FotoUstanovka, Authomatic Scanning Airborn Photo Installation
AMTORG	Amerikanskaja Torgorgovlia American Trade, a proxy company established to trade with USA in 30's
An	Initials of Antonov Design Bureau. Now Ukrainian, production base spread all over the CIS;	An-2, An-12, An-225
ANT	Original initials of Andrey Nikolaevich Tupolev bureau;	ANT-1, ANT-20bis
ANTK, ASTC	Aviatsionnyj Nauchno-Technicheskij Kompleks, Aeronatical Scientific Technical Complex
APO	Aviatsionnoe Proizvodstvennoe Ob'edinenie, Aircraft-budding conglomerate
APU	Auxiliary Pover Unit (English)
APV	1909 aircraft project, designated after its head A.P.Vernander	APV
Ar	Initials of Arhangelsky Design Team;	Ar-2
ARK	Arktichesky, Arctic Recce	ARK-3, ARK-4, ARK-5
ASK	North Region's Amphibian, Amphibia Severnogo Kraja	ASK
ASW	Anti-Submarine Warfare (English)
AV-MF	Aviatcia Voenno-Morskogo Flota, Military Sea Fleet Aviation
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. See also Osoaviakhim.
Aviaotryad	Aviation Detachment, Aviatsionnyj Otryad
Aviatrest	Aiation Trust, predecessor of Aeroflot