27185 abbreviations
Abbreviation Meaning
XV-5 Vertifan Experimental Tilt- Rotor Aircraft
XVV X-axis towards Velocity Vector
XW Experimental Warhead
XW X-Wing
XWF X-Wing Fighter
XWS Experimental Weapon System
XX Double Cross
XYD 10 Year Device
XYP X- Y Plotter
XYR X- Y Recorder
X YR DEV 10 Year Device
Y Search and Rescue Unit Error
YAF Yugoslav Air Force
YAK Yakovlav Aircraft Design Bureau (Russian)
YAK Yakovlev Aircraft
YAL Prototype Attack Laser
YANK Youth of America Needs to Know
YAP Yet Another Pile
YAR Yearly Accomplishment Report
YB Yankee Bravo
YB Yard Bird
YB-35 Northrop prototype B-35 long-range heavy bomber
YB-40 Prototype B-17 conversion to bomber escort gunship
YB-49 Northrop prototype B-49 Flying Wing Heavy Bomber
YBH Yes, But How?
YBY Why Be Yellow
YC-125 Northrop prototype C-125 cargo aircraft
YCQ-1 Fletcher prototype CQ-1 target control aircraft
YDA Your Death Awaits
YEA YES vote
YEL Young Emerging Leaders
YEO Yeomanry
YF-17 Northrop F-17 Cobra Prototype fighter aircraft
YF-22 Lockheed YF-22 prototype fighter aircraft
YF-23 Northrop YF-23 prototype fighter aircraft
YFC Yakima Firing Center
YFJ-4 North American FJ-4 Fury prototype fighter
YH-5 SIKORSKY prototype H-5A helicopter
YKB-29T Prototype Tanker version of B-29 bomber
YKTN Yorktown
YLD Yield
YM Young Marines
YM Yucca Mountain
YMM Year, Make, and Model
YMME Year, Make, Model, and Engine
YNC Chief Yeoman
YO The Youngest Or Only
YOC Yokota Officers Club
YOMP Your Own Marching Pace (British)
YOV-1 Grumman Prototype Mohawk observation aircraft