This is a collection of useful resources for researching aviation related articles. With the exception of those listed in the "Questionable sources" section, these sources should pass
WP:RS. If any editor wishes to question the reliability of a particular source, please bring the issue up on the talk page.
Sauter, John. Atlas Historique des terrains d'aviation en France 1919-1947 (CD-ROM) (in French). Direction Générale de l'Aviation Civile.
ISBN2-11-095385-3. - An atlas of French airfields from 1919-47.
The Times Archive (subscription required, but may be accessible for UK editors who have a library card via their library's website). A wealth of info to be found, covers dates between 1785 and 1985.
Many potential sources do not fully meet
WP:RS or may breach
WP:COPYVIO. They may contain unreliable, false or illegally published information for a variety of reasons. In general, they should not be cited in an article. They should not generally be listed as "External links" either, per
WP:ELNO.
On the other hand, some of the material in these sources may have been attributed to a respectable author and the author's own sources cited; such material is usually acceptable, provided Wikipedia takes care to cite the author and individual article.
Some questionable sources may still be useful when researching a topic, where they provide references to further and more reliable information, but should not be trusted or referenced in themselves.
Some questionable sources are frequently cited by inexperienced editors in aviation-related articles, and are listed here for quick reference. The list includes both merely questionable and outright unreliable sources.
Airframe Dossier or any other sub-site of Aerial Visuals, aerialvisuals.ca - hobby or crowdsourced content, not peer reviewed. See
discussion.
Airwar.ru, airwar.ru, English-language version Sky Corner, home page airwar.ru/indexe.html - widely reported to be unreliable and/or copyvio. See for example
this archived discussion.
Black Sun Redux, greyfalcon.us - fantasy garbage unlimited.
GlobalSecurity.org, globalsecurity.org - unreliable and copyright violation news scrapings. See
RSN discussion.
Kites, Birds and Stuff, by P.D. Stemp - book series, self-published and comprising indiscriminate scrapings from everybody else he could lay his hands on, including Wikipedia. It is ostensibly published by Lulu.com, but that is a print-on-demand online self-publishing service.