Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft

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Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft, part 203
Frequency	Weekly
Publisher	Orbis Publishing
Founded	1981
Final issue	1985
Country	United Kingdom

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft was a weekly partwork magazine by Aerospace Publishing (an imprint of Orbis Publishing) which was published in the United Kingdom (and sold in other countries too) during the early 1980s.^[1] The magazine was intended to eventually make up a multi-volume encyclopedia dedicated to aviation. First issued in 1981, the partwork comprised 216 issues, each of twenty pages (plus the covers), making up eighteen volumes (4280 pages).^[1] The first two issues were sold together for the price of one, subsequent issues were sold on their own.

Empty binders for each volume (of twelve issues) were also sold. These binders were dark blue in colour and contained the imprint of a Panavia Tornado on the front. They held the issues using a metal strip that was threaded through the staples of each issue to hold them in place. Each issue consisted of four separate sections.

The final two parts (215 and 216), issued in 1985, comprised the index for the encyclopedia. A table of contents was also included with these final issues that was intended to be inserted into the start of volume 1.^[2]