📚 Aviation

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Heavier-than-air flight: the pioneers and the aircraft and the whole system, and how a century went from a hundred-foot hop to crossing oceans.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject aviation in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Jane's All the Worlds Aircraft	Fred T. Jane	1933	97
Managing airports	Anne Graham	2008	26
Navy aviation	United States. General Accounting Office	1994	25
Airline Finance	Peter S. Morrell	2013	21
Grenzschicht-Theorie	Hermann Schlichting	1951	20
United States Navy aircraft since 1911	Gordon Swanborough	1968	8
Airport planning & management	Alexander T. Wells	1986	8
The Southwest Airlines Way	Jody Hoffer Gittell	2002	8
The airline business	Rigas Doganis	2005	8
Aviation	Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith	1970	6
The air	Edgar Bonsak Schieldrop	1940	5
Skyfaring	Mark Vanhoenacker	2015	5
Flying Blind	Peter Robison	2021	5
Fifty glorious years	Arthur Pearcy	1985	4
Occupational health in aviation	Russell B. Rayman	1995	4
Fairey Rotodyne	David Gibbings	2009	4
Flying	Gustav Hamel	1914	3
A history of flying	Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith	1953	3
The survivor	Robb White	1964	3
Fighters of World War II	David Donald	1987	3
Sunburst	Mark R. Peattie	2002	3
Aviation in the United States Navy	United States. Naval History Division.	1961	2
Flying army	William E. Butterworth III	1971	2
The sky pirates	James A. Arey	1972	2
British carrier aviation	Norman Friedman	1988	2
Aviation Safety Programs	Richard H. Wood	1997	2
Airbus A320	Tim Laming	2000	2
Mil Mi-24	Yefim Gordon	2001	2
Aeronautical Engineer's Data Book	Cliff Matthews	2001	2
Favorite Recipes of Mainliner Chefs	United Airlines	1954	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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