Aviation Week & Space Technology

Aviation Week & Space Technology, often abbreviated Aviation Week or AW&ST, is the flagship magazine of the Aviation Week Network, a division of Informa. The weekly magazine is available in print and online, reporting on the aerospace, defense and aviation industries, with a core focus on aerospace technology. It has a reputation for its contacts inside the United States military and industry organizations.

Aviation Week was a favorite conduit for defense-related companies and labs to leak information to the public as part of their policy by press release efforts. This led to it being informally referred to "Aviation Leak and Space Mythology".

The magazine was first published in August 1916 as Aviation and Aeronautical Engineering. In the autumn of 1920, the publication Aircraft Journal merged with Aviation and Aeronautical Engineering, and on 1 November 1920 the magazine was renamed to Aviation and Aircraft Journal to reflect the merger. With the first publication of the year on 2 January 1922, the magazine's name was shortened to Aviation "as it has been popularly known ever since its first appearance". The magazine would keep that name until 1947.

In May 1927, the publisher of the magazine changed from Gardner Publishing Corporation, Inc. (of Highland, N.Y.) to Aviation Publishing Corporation (of New York, N.Y.), following the retirement of Major Lester D. Gardner from operations in the magazine and his role as President, handing off his duties to "younger and more active shoulders." In the spring of 1929, Aviation Publishing Co. entered a deal to transfer publishing of the magazine to the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. The magazine's editors were then employed by McGraw Hill. Starting on 9 March 1929, the magazine was published by McGraw-Hill.

On 11 August 1928, Aviation announced that Maj. Garner's name would be removed from the magazine, wherein he was symbolically listed as a "Director" (despite not being an active member of staff). The magazine cited conflicts with Maj. Garner's new role as President of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, claiming that "the opinions expressed by Aviation might be embarrassing to him if his name remained on the magazine". Early editors Ladislas d'Orsy and Donald W. McIlhiney (1921 to 25) were Quiet Birdmen. Publisher (1927 to 29) Earl D. Osborn was also a Quiet Birdman.

Other titles the magazine has held include: Aviation Week (1947–1958), Aviation Week Including Space Technology (1958–1959), before settling on its current title in 1960 with the coming of the Space Age.

Starting in August 1943, McGraw-Hill published a weekly magazine called Aviation News to accompany the standard monthly issue. In 1947, its staff was reincorporated into the then-renamed Aviation Week.

Once a month the magazine publishes an edition targeted at the maintenance, repair and overhaul business.