Condor (disambiguation)

Condor is the common name for two species of birds.

Condor, The Condor or El Condor may also refer to:

Military

Ships

• HMS Condor
• Condor-class sloop, a Royal Navy class of six sloops built between 1898 and 1900
• Condor-class gunvessel, a Royal Navy class of four gunvessels built between 1876 and 1877
• USS Condor
• SMS Condor, an Imperial German Navy unprotected cruiser

Aircraft

• Antonov An-124, a Russian/Soviet transport aircraft (NATO reporting name "Condor")
• Boeing Condor, a test bed unmanned aerial vehicle
• Condor, a version of the BQM-147 Dragon unmanned aerial vehicle "navalized" for the United States Coast Guard
• Curtiss B-2 Condor, a 1920s American bomber
• Curtiss T-32 Condor II, a 1930s American biplane bomber (also a civilian airliner)
• Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, a German aircraft used for long range maritime patrol and reconnaissance during World War II
• Schweizer RU-38 Twin Condor, a covert reconnaissance aircraft

Other

• Operation Condor (disambiguation), the codename of a number of military operations
• HMH-464, United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron known as the Condors
• RM Condor, the home base of 45 Commando, Royal Marines, situated in Arbroath on the east coast of Scotland
• Amarah Air Base,a former Iraqi Air Force base captured by Coalition forces in 2003 and renamed Camp Condor
• AGM-53 Condor, a US Navy air-to-surface missile that did not enter service
• Condor (Argentine missile), a long-range missile developed by Argentina
• Condor A350, a Swiss military motorcycle
• Condor (APC), a German armoured personnel carrier, best known for its use by Malaysian forces

Transportation

Ships

• SS Condor (1893), captured and sunk by Germany in 1914
• SS Condor (1920), in service from 1927 to 1940
• Condor, the name of the MV Empire MacKendrick from 1949 to 1955
• Condor (yacht), a racing yacht built in 1981

Aircraft

• ADI Condor, an American motor glider
• Curtiss T-32 Condor II, a 1930s American biplane airliner (also a bomber)
• Davis-Costin Condor, an all-wood UK sailplane first flown in 1953
• Druine Condor, a French 1950s light aircraft
• Schleicher Condor, a German glider
• Seahawk Condor, an ultralight aircraft
• Southern Condor, an American powered parachute / ultralight aircraft
• TL Ultralight Condor, an ultralight aircraft built in the Czech Republic since the mid-1990s

Land vehicles

• Dennis Dragon (also sold as the Dennis Condor), a double-decker bus manufactured between 1982 and 1999
• Nissan Diesel Condor, a line of medium-duty commercial vehicles introduced in 1975
• Toyota Kijang, a series of pickup trucks and minivans, sold as the Toyota Condor in South Africa

Other

• Rolls-Royce Condor, an aircraft piston engine
• Cóndor station, a railway station in Bolivia
• El Condor Airport, near El Condor, Tarija, Bolivia

Places

• El Cóndor (Jujuy), Argentina, a town and municipality
• Condor, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, a municipality
• Condor, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet
• El Condor, Bolivia - see El Condor Airport
• Cordillera del Cóndor, a mountain range in the Andes on the border between Ecuador and Peru
• Cerro El Cóndor, a stratovolcano in Argentina
• Condor Peninsula, Palmer Land, Antarctica
• Kuntur (hispanicized spelling: Condor), a mountain in Peru

Entertainment

• El Condor (film), a 1970 Western starring Jim Brown and Lee Van Cleef
• The Condor (film), a 2007 animated superhero film about a character created by Stan Lee
• Condor, code name of Robert Redford's character in the 1975 film Three Days of the Condor
• The Condor (album), a 1986 album by saxophonist Steve Lacy
• Condor (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Captain Condor, a character in Lion, a weekly British comics periodical (1952-1974)
• Condor, a 1984 novel by Graham Masterton (originally published under the name Thomas Luke)
• The Condor, a fictional starship featured in the 1964 novel The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem
• Condor (ride), an amusement ride
• El Condor (roller coaster), at Walibi Holland in the Netherlands
• Condor Club, an early strip club in San Francisco, California, that helped set precedent for the legality of nude dancing

Sports

• Bakersfield Condors (AHL), a minor-league ice hockey team based in California that plays in the American Hockey League
• Bakersfield Condors (1998–2015), a defunct minor-league ice hockey team based in California
• Jonquière Condors, a former minor pro ice hockey team based in Jonquière, Quebec, Canada
• Pittsburgh Condors, a former American Basketball Association team
• Club El Condor, ancestor of Bogotá F.C., a Colombian football club
• Condor (golf), a score of four under par on any given hole in the sport of golf

Businesses

• Condor Flugdienst GmbH (usually shortened to Condor), a German airline
• Aero Condor, an airline based in Lima, Peru
• Condor Cycles, a bicycle manufacturer based in London, England
• Condor Ferries, a ferry company providing service between the Channel Islands, the United Kingdom and France
• Condor Films, a film and TV production company based in Zurich, Switzerland

Publications

• El Cóndor (newspaper), a Chilean newspaper published in Santa Cruz, Colchagua, since 1917
• Cóndor (newspaper), a German-language newspaper published in Chile
• The Condor (journal), a quarterly scientific journal covering ornithology

People

• Condor Laucke (1914-1993), Australian politician
• Sam Condor, Kittitian politician and the former Deputy Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Carlos Manuel Hoo Ramírez (born 1978), alias El Cóndor, imprisoned high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel drug trafficking organization
• Mat Hoffman (born 1972), American BMX rider nicknamed "The Condor"
• "The Condor", handle of Kevin Mitnick (born 1963), American computer security consultant, author and hacker
• Alfred Williams (born 1968), American retired National Football League player nicknamed "The Condor"

Other uses

• Condor High-Throughput Computing System, a framework for distributed computing
• CONDOR secure cell phone, a prototype secure CDMA phone by Qualcomm
• Stoeger Condor, a type of shotgun
• Condor Sea Scouts, a Scout Troop established in Chua Chu Kang Secondary School

See also

• Condor Legion, a Nazi military unit which fought on the Nationalist side during the Spanish Civil War
• Condor Group, a fleet of helicopters operated by the Mexico City's Federal District Secretariat of Public Security
• HTCondor, an open-source high-throughput computing software framework
• Kondor (disambiguation)