What are the vehicles at the airport called, the ones out with the air planes?

Question

What are the vehicles at the airport called, the ones out with the air planes?

Answer 1

Pickup trucks, vans, tugs, deicing trucks, fuel trucks, snowplows...

There really aren't any special names for them, we just call them by what they do.

Answer 2

Ground Support Vehicles

Answer 3

They are all called Ramp vehicles:

tow truck - the one who pull or tow the aircraft

baggage conveyor cart- the one where an inclined conveyor belt brings in luggage's etc

Pax steps truck -where there is passenger steps for use when aircraft is not in the gate.

LD container lift- i forgot the term they call it or airport lingo.

Answer 4

The low slug machines that move the airliners around are call tractors or tugs.  Here is a page that tells all about all the different airport equipment.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Supp...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushback

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Answer 5

That depends on who you ask.

I've heard controllers refer to them as a nuisance. Usually with a profanity in front of the word nuisance.

I've also heard them referred to as a menace in the case of a coworker who forgot to set a parking brake. (A fuel truck wound up in a ditch.)

The small vehicles that pull aircraft up to the gate or fbo, or machinery to the aircraft, are referred to as pushbacks, tow tractors and baggage tractors. One that made me first think my hours in the bar the night before was a garden tractor/riding mower that towed a P-51 on to my ramp. One company I used to service at their corporate flight department had an actual Kubota agricultrual tractor they used. And everyone thought I was out of my mind when I used a golf cart to tow light aircraft. I've also used my Jeep and pickup on different occasions.

You've got tankers, also known as refuellers, fuel bowsers, and if you ask taxiing pilots, the blistering idiots that won't turn their headlights off at night.

Dulles International used to have ridiculously jacked busses they used to transport passengers from the airliner to the terminal.

The easiest, shortest, designation as a myriad of other machines I've seen moving around on the ground is to refer to it as ground equipment.

I'd spend the entire day here if I listed everything and the various terms for them.

Fly the Friendly Skies!

JT

Answer 6

non airplanes.

Answer 7

in addition to refuelers, baggage carts, and tugs..... belt-loaders, catering trucks, and push out tractors (the tugs that push the plane from the gate)

Answer 8

Tugs , Bag Carts , De-icing Truck , Fuel Trucks , Lav Carts / Trucks , Pushback , Catering Truck

Answer 9

Well, are you talking about the ones pulling around the carts full of bags?  Those are generally referred to as tugs.  The ones that actually are used to move the planes are called pushbacks.  I know, very original.

Answer 10

refuelers, baggage carts, tugs, fire trucks......

Answer 11

Tugs, Deicer trucks, baggage trucks, etc.

Answer 12

All the above, and they're properly known as "ground support vehicles".