243 (disambiguation)

243 or variant, may refer to:

• 243 (number)

Date and time

• AD 243 CE, a year
• 243 BC/BCE, a year

• March 24 (24/3)

Places

• 243 Ida, a main-belt asteroid, the 243rd asteroid registered
• 243P/NEAT (Comet NEAT 243), a periodic comet, the 243rd periodical registered
• Lebo–Waverly USD 243, Kansas, USA; a unified school district, #243
• NA-243 (Karachi East-II), Pakistan; a national assembly constituency
• Collholme No. 243, Alberta, Canada; a municipal district

Transportation

• ARO-243, a 4x4 offroad vehicle from ARO (Auto Romania)
• DR Class 243, German electric locomotive class
• Tupolev Tu-243, Soviet unmanned reconnaissance aircraft
• Highway 243, several highways
• Flight 243 (disambiguation), several airline flights

Ships with pennant 243

• HMS Trent (K243), a British Royal Navy River-class frigate
• HMS Scotsman (P243), a British WWII Royal Navy S-class submarine
• HMIS Bengal (J243), a WWII Indian Navy Bathurst-class corvette
• USS Sands (DD-243), a WWII U.S. Navy Clemson-class destroyer
• USS J. Richard Ward (DE-243), a WWII U.S. Navy Edsall-class destroyer escort
• USS Illusive (AM-243), a WWII U.S. Navy minesweeper
• USS Bream (SSK-243), a WWII U.S. Navy Gato-class submarine
• USNS Sgt. Archer T. Gammon (T-AK-243), a WWII U.S. Navy auxiliary Boulder Victory-class cargo ship

Military units 243

• No. 243 Squadron RAF (UK)
• 243rd Aviation Company, U.S. Army (USA)
• VMSB-243, Marine Scout Bombing Squadron (USA)
• 243rd Air Traffic Control Squadron USAF (USA)
• 243 Provost Company, Royal Military Police (UK)
• 243 (The Wessex) Field Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps (UK)
• 243 Construction Squadron, Royal Engineers (UK)
• 243rd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment, Red Army; a Soviet Cold War unit
• 243rd Rifle Division, NKVD, Red Army; a Soviet unit in WWII
• 243rd Static Infantry Division (Wehrmacht), WWII Germany
• 243rd Coast Artillery (United States), Rhode Island National Guard interwar unit
• 243d Aero Squadron, U.S. Army Air Corps, an interwar unit
• 243rd Battalion, CEF, WWI Canadian Army unit
• 243rd Infantry Division (German Empire), WWI

Weaponry

• M243 smoke grenade launcher (model 243)
• .243 calibre for firearms
  • .243 Winchester rifle round
  • .243 Winchester Super Short Magnum (.243 WSSM), rifle rounds

Communications

• +243; the calling code for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the country once known as Zaire.
• 243 AM, 243 kHz in AM radio
• 243 MHz (UHF Guard frequency), an aircraft emergency frequency for military aircraft.

Isotope 243

• Americium-243
• Berkelium-243
• Californium-243
• Curium-243
• Einsteinium-243
• Neptunium-243

Other uses

• United Nations Security Council Resolution 243

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with 243
• All pages with titles containing 243