Aircraft

Quality:

Aircraft - machine that is able to fly by gaining support from the air other than the reactions of the air against the earth’s surface. Article “Aircraft” in English Wikipedia has 79.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 111 references and 31 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 14.06 points.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 8949^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8683^rd most popular in AI.

In June 2025 the article “Aircraft” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Aircraft”, its content was written by 868 registered users of English Wikipedia (8949^th place) and edited by 2713 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8683^rd place).

The article is cited 3082 times in English Wikipedia (9589^th place) and cited 30256 times in all languages (5436^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #33 in April 2002
• Global: #28 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6899 in January 2012
• Global: #7679 in January 2008

There are 53 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 航空器		100
2	Greek (el) Αεροσκάφος		99.1898
3	Esperanto (eo) Aviadilo		81.5947
4	Min Nan (zhminnan) Hâng-khong-ki		81.2838
5	English (en) Aircraft		79.6885
6	Catalan (ca) Aeronau		65.6733
7	Spanish (es) Aeronave		58.0615
8	Basque (eu) Aireontzi		56.3417
9	Thai (th) อากาศยาน		54.8743
10	Russian (ru) Воздушное судно		54.5607

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Aircraft		8 628 386
2	Japanese (ja) 航空機		1 541 716
3	French (fr) Aéronef		1 044 149
4	Spanish (es) Aeronave		764 897
5	Thai (th) อากาศยาน		680 332
6	Russian (ru) Воздушное судно		630 826
7	German (de) Luftfahrzeug		554 107
8	Portuguese (pt) Aeronave		443 916
9	Czech (cs) Letadlo		386 589
10	Polish (pl) Statek powietrzny		383 159

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Aircraft		23 220
2	Japanese (ja) 航空機		4 445
3	French (fr) Aéronef		2 713
4	Russian (ru) Воздушное судно		2 551
5	Persian (fa) هواگرد		2 102
6	German (de) Luftfahrzeug		2 062
7	Spanish (es) Aeronave		1 642
8	Simple English (simple) Aircraft		1 028
9	Portuguese (pt) Aeronave		962
10	Czech (cs) Letadlo		810

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Aircraft		868
2	German (de) Luftfahrzeug		212
3	French (fr) Aéronef		131
4	Japanese (ja) 航空機		97
5	Spanish (es) Aeronave		84
6	Russian (ru) Воздушное судно		84
7	Czech (cs) Letadlo		81
8	Hebrew (he) כלי טיס		65
9	Italian (it) Aeromobile		62
10	Chinese (zh) 航空器		59

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Aircraft		5
2	Greek (el) Αεροσκάφος		1
3	Esperanto (eo) Aviadilo		1
4	Basque (eu) Aireontzi		1
5	Persian (fa) هواگرد		1
6	Korean (ko) 항공기		1
7	Simple English (simple) Aircraft		1
8	Slovenian (sl) Zrakoplov		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Повітряне судно		1
10	Arabic (ar) مركبة جوية		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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