Different have been developed and are currently employed in the procurement of fasteners by the Armed Forces, national and international agencies and industrial companies around the world in their attempt for uniform quality by establishing baselines for fastener characteristics, manufacturing processes, terminology, and expectations.These Standards cover a variety of required information on fasteners like their physical characteristics, like their inch or metric dimensions/tolerances, their material composition and chemical properties, property test methods, procedural instructions for fas

U.S.  Military / Aerospace Standard Anchor Nuts 

A non-exhaustive list of nut plates conforming to common U.S Military & Aerospace Standards is provided below together with information on the different standardization bodies & supersedures.

Army-Navy Standards (AN) Predecessor to Mil-Spec (MS),
AN fasteners are the industry standard for aircraft, indicating that these fasteners are made to military specifications to stand up to the toughest jobs without faltering.