SPAD may refer to:

Science and technology

  • Signal passed at danger by a train
  • Simple Plastic Airplane Design, a type of radio-controlled model airplane
  • Single-photon avalanche diode, a photodetector
  • Single Pass Albumin Dialysis, liver dialysis
  • SPAD (programming language), used by FriCAS symbolic algebra system

Military

  • SPAD VII, SPAD S.XII and SPAD S.XIII, French fighter planes of World War I produced by Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés
  • A-1 Skyraider, nicknamed Spad, an attack aircraft (1950s and 1960s)
  • Self-propelled air defence, weapons

Other uses

  • Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés, also Société Provisoire des Aéroplanes Deperdussin and Blériot-SPAD, French aircraft manufacturer (1912–1921)
  • SpAd (Special adviser (UK)), a temporary civil servant, a government post
  • Suruhanjaya Pengangkutan Awam Darat, the Land Public Transport Commission of Malaysia

See also

  • Spade (disambiguation)