Altair (disambiguation)

Altair is a star in the Aquila constellation.

Altair may also refer to:

Business

• Altair Airlines, a regional airline that operated out of Philadelphia, Pa., from 1966 to 1982
• Altair Semiconductor, a developer of 4G cellular communication semiconductors
• Altair Nanotechnologies Inc.
• Altair Engineering

Fiction

For the use of the star Altair or its solar system in fiction see Altair in fiction.

Fictional characters

• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, a character in the Assassin's Creed video game series
• Altair, a character in the video game Bomberman 64
• Altair the Black Knight, a character in the anime series Gear Fighter Dendoh
• Ratchet Altair, a character in the Sakura Wars universe
• Name of a Mecha in the series Zegapain
• A form taken by the Japanese television character Kamen Rider Zeronos
• Altair is the name of one of Sheik Ilderim's horses in Ben Hur.
• Altair is a mechanical bakugan in Bakugan new vestroia
• Altair is the name of a dragon in the video game Spyro The Dragon

Fictional settings

• Altair, a town in the video game Final Fantasy II
• Altair IV, the planet on which the film Forbidden Planet is set

Geography

• Altair, São Paulo, a city in Brazil
• Jabal al-Tair Island, an island in the Red Sea
• Altair, Texas, a town in Colorado County, Texas
• Altair (Building), Sri-Lanka, Colombo

Names

• Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Nickname Altair, Brazilian Football player (soccer)
• Altaír Jarabo, Mexican actress

Technologie

• Luch, a series of Russian relay satellites also known as Altair
• Altair 8800, known as the microcomputer that sparked the microcomputer revolution
• Altair BASIC, a BASIC interpreter for the above microcomputer
• X-248 Altair, a rocket engine used in several anti-satellite weapons

Vehicles

• Altair (spacecraft), a lunar lander
• USS Altair, more than one United States Navy ship
• USNS Altair (T-AKR-291), later SS Altair (T-AKR-297), a cargo ship of the United States Navy's Military Sealift Command
• Lockheed Altair, an aircraft
• Altair, a schooner designed by William Fife
• Beriev Be-200 Altair, an amphibious multirole aircraft
• Piper PiperJet Altaire, a single-engined very light jet (VLJ) by Piper Aircraft

Other meanings

• Operation ALTAIR, a Canadian military operation
• Altair, a planet central to the New Age spiritual beliefs of Francis Younghusband
• "Altair 4", a song by Blind Guardian on the album Tales from the Twilight World
• Marine Scientific Research Institute of radioelectronics
• AltAir, a jet biofuels company in Seattle, Washington
• ALTAIR is a radar tracking station in Roi-Namur island in the north part of the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands
• Altair 4 is a planet with almost no air, in the Stephen King's Science Fiction book, 'Tommyknockers'.