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Abstract This paper addresses the longitudinal control problem of air-breathing hypersonic vehicles subject to actuator faults, full state constraints and backlash-like hysteresis. To accomplish the full state constraints, the modified nonlinear mappings are proposed to transform the altitude subsystem to a new system without state constraints. An adaptive backstepping controller is developed for this new system, in which the command filters are embedded to eliminate the problem of “explosion of terms”. Then, the controller parameters are updated to compensate the dysfunction of failed actuators and attenuate the unfavorable effects resulted from the backlash-like hysteresis. It is proved that the proposed controller can guarantee that the tracking errors converge to an arbitrarily small residual set and the full state constraints are not violated. Simulation results are carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.