The CIA World Factbook Edition 1990 Communications

Civil air In 3 editions of 36.

Civil air was published in 3 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 1992. The 1990 edition carries it in 179 entries, in its Communications section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 1990 edition
179
the first edition with it
1990
the latest edition with it
1992

Published as “Civil air” (1990 to 1992).

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Entries with Civil air in each edition

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Africa

54 entries

Algeria

42 major transport aircraft

Angola

27 major transport aircraft

Benin

3 major transport aircraft

Botswana

6 major transport aircraft

Burkina now Burkina Faso

2 major transport aircraft

Burundi

1 major transport aircraft

Cape Verde now Cabo Verde

2 major transport aircraft

Cameroon

5 major transport aircraft

Central African Republic

2 major transport aircraft

Chad

3 major transport aircraft

Comoros

4 major transport aircraft

Zaire now Democratic Republic of the Congo

38 major transport aircraft

Congo now Republic of the Congo

4 major transport aircraft

Ivory Coast now Cote d'Ivoire

12 major transport aircraft, including multinationally owned Air Afrique fleet

Djibouti

2 major transport aircraft

Egypt

43 major transport aircraft

Equatorial Guinea

1 major transport aircraft

Swaziland now Eswatini

1 major transport aircraft

Ethiopia

21 major transport aircraft

Gabon

11 major transport aircraft

The Gambia

2 major transport aircraft

Ghana

6 major transport aircraft

Guinea

2 major transport aircraft

Guinea-Bissau

2 major transport aircraft

Kenya

14 major transport aircraft

Lesotho

2 major transport aircraft

Liberia

3 major transport aircraft

Libya

59 major transport aircraft

Madagascar

5 major transport aircraft

Malawi

3 major transport aircraft

Mali

no major transport aircraft

Mauritania

2 major transport aircraft

Mauritius

4 major transport aircraft

Mayotte

no major transport aircraft

Morocco

23 major transport aircraft

Mozambique

5 major transport aircraft

Namibia

2 major transport aircraft

Niger

no major transport aircraft

Nigeria

76 major transport aircraft

Reunion

1 major transport aircraft

Rwanda

1 major transport aircraft

Sao Tome and Principe

8 major transport aircraft

Senegal

2 major transport aircraft

Seychelles

3 major transport aircraft

Sierra Leone

no major transport aircraft

Somalia

2 major transport aircraft

South Africa

81 major transport aircraft

Sudan

14 major transport aircraft

Tanzania

6 major transport aircraft

Togo

3 major transport aircraft

Tunisia

13 major transport aircraft

Uganda

4 major transport aircraft

Zambia

6 major transport aircraft

Zimbabwe

12 major transport aircraft

Arctic Region

2 entries

Greenland

2 major transport aircraft

Iceland

20 major transport aircraft

Asia

11 entries

Afghanistan

2 TU-154, 2 Boeing 727, assorted smaller transports

Bangladesh

15 major transport aircraft

Bhutan

1 jet, 2 prop

India

93 major transport aircraft

Japan

341 major transport aircraft

Korea, South now South Korea

93 major transport aircraft

Maldives

1 major transport aircraft

Mongolia

22 major transport aircraft

Nepal

5 major and 11 minor transport aircraft

Pakistan

30 major transport aircraft

Sri Lanka

8 major transport (including 1 leased)

Central America and the Caribbean

25 entries

Anguilla

no major transport aircraft

Antigua and Barbuda

10 major transport aircraft

The Bahamas

9 major transport aircraft

Barbados

2 major transport aircraft

Belize

no major transport aircraft

Costa Rica

9 major transport aircraft

Cuba

59 major transport aircraft

Dominica

NA

Dominican Republic

14 major transport aircraft

El Salvador

7 major transport aircraft

Grenada

no major transport aircraft

Guadeloupe

2 major transport aircraft

Guatemala

10 major transport aircraft

Haiti

4 major transport aircraft

Honduras

9 major transport aircraft

Jamaica

6 major transport aircraft

Martinique

no major transport aircraft

Netherlands Antilles

5 major transport aircraft

Nicaragua

12 major transport aircraft

Panama

16 major transport aircraft

St. Kitts and Nevis now Saint Kitts and Nevis

no major transport aircraft

St. Lucia now Saint Lucia

2 major transport aircraft

St. Vincent and the Grenadines now Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

no major transport aircraft

Trinidad and Tobago

14 major transport aircraft

Turks and Caicos Islands

Air Turks and Caicos (passenger service) and Turks Air Ltd. (cargo service)

Europe

28 entries

Austria

25 major transport aircraft

Belgium

47 major transport aircraft

Bulgaria

65 major transport aircraft

Czechoslovakia

40 major transport aircraft

Denmark

58 major transport aircraft

Finland

39 major transport

France

355 major transport aircraft (1982)

German Democratic Republic

45 major transport aircraft

Germany, Federal Republic of now Germany

194 major transport aircraft

Gibraltar

1 major transport aircraft

Greece

39 major transport aircraft

Hungary

22 major transport aircraft

Ireland

23 major transport aircraft

Italy

132 major transport aircraft

Liechtenstein

no transport aircraft

Luxembourg

13 major transport aircraft

Malta

8 major transport aircraft

Monaco

no major transport aircraft

Netherlands

98 major transport aircraft

Norway

76 major transport aircraft

Poland

42 major transport aircraft

Romania

70 major transport aircraft

Soviet Union

4,500 major transport aircraft

Spain

142 major transport aircraft

Sweden

65 major transports

Switzerland

89 major transport aircraft

United Kingdom

618 major transport aircraft

Yugoslavia

NA major transport aircraft

Middle East

16 entries

Bahrain

24 major transport aircraft

Cyprus

8 major transport aircraft

Iran

42 major transport aircraft

Iraq

64 major transport aircraft (including 30 IL-76s used by the Iraq Air Force)

Israel

27 major transport aircraft

Jordan

19 major transport aircraft

Kuwait

19 major transport aircraft

Lebanon

15 major transport aircraft

Oman

4 major transport aircraft

Qatar

3 major transport aircraft

Saudi Arabia

182 major transport aircraft available

Syria

35 major transport aircraft

Turkey now Turkiye

30 major transport aircraft (1985)

United Arab Emirates

8 major transport aircraft

Yemen Arab Republic

7 major transport aircraft

Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of now People's Democratic Republic of Yemen

8 major transport aircraft

North America

5 entries

Bermuda

16 major transport aircraft

Canada

636 major transport aircraft; Air Canada is the major carrier

Mexico

174 major transport aircraft

St. Pierre and Miquelon now Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Air Saint-Pierre

United States

3,297 commercial multiengine transport aircraft, including 2,989 jet, 231 turboprop, 77 piston (1985)

Oceania

14 entries

Australia

around 150 major transport aircraft

Cook Islands

no major transport aircraft

Fiji

1 DC-3 and 1 light aircraft

French Polynesia

about 6 major transport aircraft

Kiribati

2 Trislanders; no major transport aircraft

Nauru

3 major transport aircraft, one on order

New Caledonia

no major transport aircraft

New Zealand

about 40 major transport aircraft

Papua New Guinea

about 15 major transport aircraft

Western Samoa now Samoa

3 major transport aircraft

Solomon Islands

no major transport aircraft

Tonga

no major transport aircraft

Tuvalu

no major transport aircraft

Vanuatu

no major transport aircraft

South America

14 entries

Argentina

54 major transport aircraft

Bolivia

56 major transport aircraft

Brazil

176 major transport aircraft

Chile

22 major transport aircraft

Colombia

106 major transport aircraft

Ecuador

44 major transport aircraft

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

no major transport aircraft

French Guiana

no major transport aircraft

Guyana

5 major transport aircraft

Paraguay

4 major transport aircraft

Peru

27 major transport aircraft

Suriname

2 major transport aircraft

Uruguay

14 major transport aircraft

Venezuela

58 major transport aircraft

Southeast Asia

10 entries

Brunei

4 major transport aircraft (3 Boeing 757-200, 1 Boeing 737-200)

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

17 major transport aircraft (including 3 helicopters)

Hong Kong

16 major transport aircraft

Indonesia

about 216 commercial transport aircraft

Macau

no major transport aircraft

Malaysia

53 major transport aircraft

Philippines

53 major transport aircraft

Singapore

38 major transport aircraft (est.)

Thailand

41 (plus 2 leased) major transport aircraft

Vietnam

controlled by military

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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 1990, “Civil air”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/civil-air/1990.

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