Fixed-wing aircraft

Quality:

Fixed-wing aircraft - heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings generating aerodynamic lift in the airflow caused by forward airspeed. Article “Fixed-wing aircraft” in Simple English Wikipedia has 40 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Fixed-wing aircraft”, its content was written by 88 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (908^th place) and edited by 1788 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 86 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3379 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #15 in July 2004
• Global: #2667 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1047 in December 2011
• Global: #18284 in April 2008

There are 24 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, 2026 (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	Korean (ko) 고정익기		67.6355
2	Spanish (es) Aeronaves de ala fija		65.268
3	English (en) Fixed-wing aircraft		58.2899
4	Chinese (zh) 固定翼飛機		55.915
5	Catalan (ca) Aeronau d'ala fixa		52.1269
6	Simple English (simple) Fixed-wing aircraft		40.0208
7	Urdu (ur) فکسڈ ونگ طیارہ		34.0801
8	Tamil (ta) நிலைத்த இறக்கை வானூர்தி		25.1767
9	Russian (ru) Летательный аппарат с неподвижным крылом		24.75
10	Greek (el) Αεροσκάφος σταθερών πτερύγων		23.4506

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fixed-wing aircraft		4 973 811
2	Chinese (zh) 固定翼飛機		453 865
3	Japanese (ja) 固定翼機		237 130
4	French (fr) Aéroplane		99 461
5	Simple English (simple) Fixed-wing aircraft		87 494
6	Russian (ru) Летательный аппарат с неподвижным крылом		57 973
7	Romanian (ro) Aeroplan		47 948
8	Indonesian (id) Pesawat bersayap tetap		41 790
9	Persian (fa) هواگرد ثابت‌بال		33 353
10	Turkish (tr) Sabit kanatlı hava aracı		22 239

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) Fixed-wing aircraft		7 432
2	Chinese (zh) 固定翼飛機		833
3	Japanese (ja) 固定翼機		398
4	Persian (fa) هواگرد ثابت‌بال		293
5	French (fr) Aéroplane		247
6	Russian (ru) Летательный аппарат с неподвижным крылом		211
7	Romanian (ro) Aeroplan		141
8	Simple English (simple) Fixed-wing aircraft		126
9	Spanish (es) Aeronaves de ala fija		91
10	Polish (pl) Stałopłat		80

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fixed-wing aircraft		1 363
2	Chinese (zh) 固定翼飛機		131
3	Simple English (simple) Fixed-wing aircraft		88
4	Japanese (ja) 固定翼機		36
5	Danish (da) Fastvingefly		27
6	French (fr) Aéroplane		25
7	Turkish (tr) Sabit kanatlı hava aracı		16
8	Persian (fa) هواگرد ثابت‌بال		12
9	Polish (pl) Stałopłat		12
10	Romanian (ro) Aeroplan		12

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	Catalan (ca) Aeronau d'ala fixa		2
2	Korean (ko) 고정익기		2
3	Arabic (ar) طائرة ثابتة الجناحين		1
4	Turkish (tr) Sabit kanatlı hava aracı		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Sabit qanadlı təyyarə		0
6	Danish (da) Fastvingefly		0
7	Greek (el) Αεροσκάφος σταθερών πτερύγων		0
8	English (en) Fixed-wing aircraft		0
9	Spanish (es) Aeronaves de ala fija		0
10	Basque (eu) Hego finkoko aireontzi		0

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

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