This paper summarizes the requirements of standards for aircraft power supply firstly,and then points out that the input current harmonic and output DC voltage ripple should be considered seriously when designing three-phase power factor correction (PFC)for aircraft under variable line frequency and unbalanced line supply. Based on reviewing the topologies for aircraft three-phase PFC,three typical topologies,i.e. three-phase pulse width modulation (PWM)rectifier,traditional shunt active power filter (APF)and generalized APF,are picked up. A unified single-phase equivalent model is developed for comparing the harmonic suppression performance of the three active PFC schemes. And the switching stress is also calculated for evaluating their efficiency and power density. Three 5 kW PFC are designed by employing each of the three selected schemes. Simulation is carried out to verify the correctness of the theoretical analysis. The theory and simulation results indicate that the generalized APF topology shows the most technical merit for aircraft three-phase PFC. Future research works on generalized APF are also pointed out,which are solving the uncontrollability of its DC output voltage and optimal designing the filter inductors.