Osprey (disambiguation)

An osprey is a medium-large fish-eating bird of prey. There are two species:

• Western osprey Pandion haliaetus, found across the Old and New World
• Eastern osprey Pandion cristatus, found in Australia

Osprey may also refer to:

Geography

• Osprey, Florida, a town in the United States

Video games

• Osprey, a cruiser class ship from the MMORPG Eve Online

Businesses

• Osprey Media, a Canadian publishing group of daily and weekly newspapers and specialty publications
• Osprey Publishing, a British publishing company that specializes in books on military history and military equipment
• Sandvik Osprey, a British metallurgical company

Military

• Operation Osprey
• Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey, a tiltrotor aircraft in use by the US armed forces.

Sports

• Ospreys (rugby union), a Welsh rugby union team that plays its home matches in Swansea, Wales
• Missoula Osprey, a minor league baseball team in Missoula, Montana
• North Florida Ospreys, the athletic teams of the University of North Florida
• "Osprey", a sporting and social focus for female athletes at the University of Cambridge, England

Technology

• Osprey body armour, a body armour system used by the British military
• Osprey process, a spray forming process owned by Sandvik Osprey
• Osprey, a fault tolerant MapReduce-like system proposed in Osprey: Implementing MapReduce-Style Fault Tolerance in a Shared-Nothing Distributed Database

Transportation

Aircraft

(Chronological)

• Hawker Osprey (from 1932), the navalised carrier-borne version of the Hawker Hart biplane
• Fairchild SD-5 Osprey, (from 1960) American reconnaissance drone
• Osprey Osprey I (from 1970), Sport flying boat
• Osprey Osprey 2 (from 1973), Sport amphibian
• Monaghan Osprey (from 1973), glider
• Paraplane PSE-2 Osprey (from 1990s), an American powered parachute design
• Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey (from 1989), tiltrotor aircraft manufactured by Bell Helicopter Textron and Boeing

Ships

• HMS Osprey, five ships and a shore establishment of the British Royal Navy
• USFS Osprey, a U.S. Bureau of Fisheries fishery patrol vessel in commission from 1913 to 1921
• USS Osprey, several ships of the United States Navy
• USS Osprey II (SP-928), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918
• Osprey class coastal minehunter, a class of United States Navy minehunting vessels
• Osprey dinghy, a sailing dinghy that was designed by Ian Proctor that can be sailed with a crew of two or three, with one trapeze

Trains

• LNER Class A4 4488 Union of South Africa steam locomotive, briefly renamed "Osprey" during a period in the 1980s and early 1990s.
• Osprey, the name carried by LNER Peppercorn Class A1 locomotive 60131 from its entry into service in October 1948 until its withdrawal in October 1965