AFPD16-4 governs Air Force accounting for units, installations, and military aerospace vehicles, including their naming.
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AFPD16-4 addresses designating and naming aerospace vehicles, maintaining accurate accounting, and distributing and disposing of excess vehicles. It assigns responsibilities for programming, documentation, transfers, termination, and reporting.
Applies to: It applies to all Air Force personnel, including Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve, who review, validate, approve, and manage the accounting of units, installations, and military aerospace vehicles and the naming of military aerospace vehicles.
Assigns mission design series designators to all military aerospace vehicles, coordinates the assignment of popular names to all aerospace vehicles to include establishing guidance to the same, and publishes and updates a list of approved mission design series designators and names for military aerospace vehicles in a single Department of Defense-wide source document in accordance with Department of Defense Directive 4120.15E. (paragraph 2)
Establishes guidance, processes and procedures for documenting: assignment, transfer, distribution, accounting, and termination of Air Force aerospace vehicles. (paragraph 2)
Following the completion of each President’s Budget exercise, publishes the United States Air Force Aerospace Vehicles and Flying Hours document and reports. (paragraph 2)
Establishes guidance, processes and procedures for worldwide programming and ensures accurate programmed accounting of active military aerospace vehicles at current installations and units in accordance with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction 4410.01G, Standardized Terminology For Aerospace Vehicle Inventory Management. (paragraph 2)