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At present, air travel is on the increase. People spend more and more time at airports and on airplanes, which have become one of the fastest and most important means of transport in today’s world. Although English is the language of aviation, one can communicate at airports and on planes also in (almost) every other language. In this paper attention is directed to the Dutch language of aviation, which has not yet been the subject of linguistic research. Is it possible to speak, as it is the case with Aviation English, about Aviation Dutch? The main issue raised in this paper is an attempt to give a definition of Aviation Dutch and to present its specific characteristics that distinguish it from other languages for special purposes.