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DD Form 175 — DD Form 175, Military Flight Plan, May 1986

Flight Plan, Military

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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 175 — DD Form 175, Military Flight Plan, May 1986 — exists to Flight Plan, Military, and it applies across the services rather than inside one. That is what the DD prefix encodes: joint issue, single edition, every branch and defense agency working from identical paper.

not stated is the prescribing publication and not stated the office responsible for the document. Deadlines belong to local implementing guidance, not to either of those, so a submission date is a question for the receiving office.

Edition not stated, status not stated. That comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.

The set is PDF. Size: 1 pages, about 132 fields.

All formats are free. One operational note: save the file locally and open it in a desktop reader. Browser-embedded viewers drop field properties and lose typed data without warning.

What the form asks for

  • Date.
  • Aircraft call sign.
  • Aircraft designation and TD code.
  • Base operations use.
  • Column 1, line 1.
  • Type flight plan.
  • True airspeed.
  • Point of departure.
  • Proposed departure time (Z).
  • Altitude.
  • Route of flight.
  • To.
  • E T E.
  • Column 1, line 2.
  • Type flight plan.
  • True airspeed.
  • Point of departure.
  • Proposed departure time (Z).
  • Altitude.
  • Route of flight.
  • To.
  • E T E.
  • Column 1, line 3.
  • Type flight plan.

Edition check comes first, ahead of any entry. Compare the printed date to not stated and replace anything older. Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.

Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.

Submit to the office named in not stated or in local instruction; retain a duplicate before it leaves. Joint routing often sends a DD form across organizational boundaries, and tracing one afterward is not a same-day matter.

A number is a complete address in the DD series. Because the sequence is Department-level and not duplicated per service, there is nothing further to specify.

Do not read across from a service number. DA numbering is Army-specific under an Army proponent; DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. The sequences are unrelated, so identical digits in each identify two different documents. Read the prefix, not the digits.

Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when notice language is amended. None of that reaches you. Checking not stated at download is the entire defence, and it is cheaper than repeating a submission.

Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.

Questions and answers

What is DD Form 175?
DD Form 175, Military Flight Plan, May 1986
Which edition is current?
Not stated by the publisher
Who is responsible for this form?
Not stated
In which formats can it be downloaded?
PDF

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