Ships navigating use lights to mark that they are underway,
i.e. navigating. When at anchor they have anchor lights
displayed.

Aircraft use the same pattern of lights to show their
position and direction of motion.

Anti-collision lights are the red or white flashing,
rotating, or strobe lights.

Recognition lights are the wing or tail mounted lights that
appear to be like landing lights, except they can be run at
high speed. Some aircraft have retractable landing lights
or the landing lights are mounted on the landing gear and
thus not usable at high speed.

Logo lights are mounted on the rear of the wing or
horizontal stabilizer to light the vertical tail surface.
--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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"Andrew Sarangan" wrote in message
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|
| Cub Driver wrote:
| I've always called the lights on wingtip and tail
"navigation lights,"
| but of course they aren't for navigation; they're to
mark the aircraft
| to avoid collision, or so that one plane can fly in
formation with
| another.
|
| What's the name that suggests this purpose? Recognition
lights?
|
|
| Position Lights is the term used in FAR 23. I am not sure
where the
| term nav light came from.
|
| Anticollision light is a different thing. It is usually
the red
| fflashing beacon or the strobe light.
|