Talk:Aviation call signs

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Wikipedia needs a comprehensive LIST of current and historic civil and military callsigns
There are a few lists of callsigns on the net, but none I've found are comprehensive and I don't see any on Wikipedia.

Many people know why Pan-Am's callsign was "Clipper", but far fewer know the back story on the now-defunct "CACTUS" callsign formerly used by U.S. Airways before the merger (it was the result of an employee callsign contest after FAA asked the carrier to change its callsign because of confusion with other carriers). As a civilian ATP I've always been curious about the ASPEN callsign used by the SR-71 spyplane. I bet there's a cool story behind why "ASPEN" was chosen. Did you know the distinctive BRICKYARD callsign is actually a reference to the Indianapolis 500 racetrack?

I am imagining a new page titled "List of Aviation Callsigns" that encompasses both U.S. and international callsigns for both air carrier and military aircraft. I imagine it being indexed and sortable so the reader can see an alphebetized list of callsigns or a alphebetized list of carrier or military unit names. On each row I imagine a "Comments and History" column for telling the back story of how Pan-Am got to be called CLIPPER, how U.S. Air got to be called CACTUS, and so forth.

To comply with the no original research rule, it would be a fair bit of work to source external references to support the table I imagine. But the several narrower-scope lists of military callsigns, current air carrier callsigns, and so forth already scattered around the net should satisfy most of the need.

Unfortunately all I can offer is the suggestion that Wikipedia needs this. I have neither the knowledge nor the contacts needed to head up the editing project myself. My hope in posting this to the talk page is just to perhaps inspire a retired airline captain or military aviator to take this on as a retirement project. I truly believe there's a lot of fascinating aviation history embedded in callsigns, and it will be lost forever if someone doesn't figure out how to document it. Wikipedia is the perfect place for that. ErikTownsend (talk) 01:10, 20 November 2022 (UTC)