This is a list of fictional aircraft, including fixed wing, rotary wing, and lighter-than-air vehicles. These vehicles are either the subject of a notable work of fiction, or else are important elements of a notable work of fiction. Vehicles in this list are intended to operate in an atmosphere.
[edit] Fictional aircraft
[edit] Military
- XF-117 Remora - an experimental F-117 Nighthawk variant with it's internal weapons bay modified to transport soldiers/personnel as well as an addition of an in-flight docking probe designed to dock with other aircraft in mid air. Originally designed to act as a transport to relieve fatigued flight crews of bomber planes during long range missions, this aircraft was used to transport a special operations unit to board a commercial airline which had been highjacked by terrorists. This plane is particularly named after a Remora suckerfish, which performs similar functions to this aircraft of attaching and detaching on to larger hosts - Executive Decision 1996.[citation needed]
- Peacemaker UAV - Autonomous Jet fighter featured in the 1983 film, Deal of the Century.
- Arwing - Jet fighter - video game(s) Star Fox (series)[1]
- XF-34A DreamStar - thought controlled, forward swept wing fighter, Day of the Cheetah by Dale Brown
- MiG 31 Firefox - supersonic fighter using thought control - films & novels Firefox and Firefox Down. Its designation is shared with the real MiG-31 Foxhound.
- F-19 Ghostrider - stealth jet in Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising, & Testors kit
- Gilbert XF-120 - X-jet (camouflaged XB-51) - Toward the Unknown, 1956
- B7-A Silhouette - nuclear, VTOL, fighter-bomber -Ice Station by Matthew Reilly
- Jackal Fighter - A digital age fighter similar to an F-35 Lightning II, appearing in Empire Earth
- Nazi Flying Wing - As seen in Raiders of the Lost Ark - Twin prop, bent wings. Inspired by a range of WW2 era German flying wing aircraft projects.
- Nazi Zeppelin LZ-138 in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the same model as the Hindenburg but with a fighter plane attachment piece similar to 1930s American dirigibles
- MiG-28 in Top Gun, basically F-5 Tiger-IIs in Soviet markings/paint[2]
- MiG-37 Ferret-E - stealth fighter, Testors kit
- RAF AmphibFighter HB - single-place 1939 twin-prop, with a delta tail & straight wings near the aft, in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- F/A-37 Talon - near-future, single-seat, hypersonic mach-4 Navy fighter, with variable forward wing sweep. Operational test-stage - Stealth 2005[3]
- VF-0 Phoenix - from the Macross Zero anime science fiction series.[4][5]
- Willis JA-3 - rocket/jet 1400 mph X-plane - Chain Lightning 1950, with Humphrey Bogart[6]
- Titan Bomber - Nuclear bomber of the digital age, Empire Earth
- Fi-170 Tuman - prototype stealth bomber, Lithuanian built, super-critical wing - Night of the Hawk by Dale Brown
- Yak-12 - Soviet jet (painted T-33) - Jet Pilot w/ John Wayne, 1957 - The Yakovlev Yak-12 does exist, but is a light piston-engined multi-role STOL aircraft.
- K-212 - large jet transports in the novel and film Seven Days in May.
- AV-14 Attack VTOL - A UNSC airborne attack vehicle, also Known as the Hornet Halo
- SA-2 Samson - ducted-fan twin-rotor utility assault transport - The film Avatar
- AT-99 Scorpion - ducted-fan twin-rotor AH-64 Apache-like gunship - The film Avatar
- C-21 Dragon - VTOL four-post ducted-fan VTOL assault gunship and transport - The film Avatar
- ADF-01A/F FALKEN[7] - a fictitious, thought-controlled superfighter from the Ace Combat series, armed with a devastating Tactical Laser System pod housed underneath the cockpit; developed by the fictional Gründer Industries.
- ADFX-01/2 Morgan, of the Ace Combat series as the prototype of the Falken. The two planes share the same basic shape but the ADFX-01 variant houses the TLS pod externally while the ADFX-02 variant lacks the pod entirely, featuring an advanced ECM instead that renders the plane invulnerable to attacks from every direction but straight ahead.
- R-101/102/103 Delphinus: of the Ace Combat series, mind-controlled supersonic and one of the most advanced aircraft in the Ace Combat world serving Neucom Inc.
- X-02 Wyvern, of the Ace Combat series and is the most advanced plane in Erusia's military.
- CFA-44 Nosferatu of the Ace Combat series, this was Estovokia's most advanced plane, with a delta wing and thrust vectoring nozzles, but low stability, and was shot down by Emmerian ace Talisman (Garuda 1).
- GAF-1 Varcolac of the Ace Combat Series, an advanced fighter designed for the mercenary Varcolac squadron of the Golden Axe plan which is very versatile, being able to be developed into any configuration.
- Fenrir of the Ace Combat Series, the superfighter of the Leasath military, equipped with an experimental cloaking device and a microwave radiation weapon.
- C709 Longsword-class Interceptor - the UNSC main fighter-bomber in the Halo game series.
- VB-02 Vertibird - the main Enclave transport in the Fallout game series.
- Vic Viper - The main and protagonist jet fighter in video game Gradius. It is a high-performance jet fighter, capable of variable attacks.
- UH-144 Falcon - A troop transport used by the UNSC defense force in the Halo
- Dropship 77-Troop Carrier - Also known as the Pelican, is an extremely versatile craft used by the UNSC, mainly for the transportation, insertion and pickup of personnel, vehicles and equipment. Occasionally used as a support gunship.Halo
- XA-20 Razorback - The United States Joint Strike Force main support fighter in EndWar
- Eurofighter Hailstorm - The European Federation Enforcer Corps main support fighter in EndWar
- Su-38 Slamhound - The Russian Spetsnaz Guard Brigade main support fighter in EndWar
- AH/G-24 Banshee - Terran assault rotorcraft from StarCraft II, capable of temporarily cloaking into a state of near-Invisibility to the naked eye. Its rotorcraft configuration is a coupling of ducted fan transverse rotors and a single tail rotor.
[edit] Special Ops
- Airwolf & Airwolf II (Redwolf)- Bell Textron 222 twin-engined light helicopter, from the television series Airwolf[8]
- Albatross - New Captain Scarlet
- AmphibiCopter - 21st century submersible two-seater - AI: Artificial Intelligence 2002
- Angel Intercepter - Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.
- Batcopter and Batplane - aircraft used by Batman
- Backpack helicopter
- Blue Thunder - Helicopter from the film and television series of the same name.
- Flying Sub FS-1 - excursion vehicle from the USOS Seaview Voyage series
- Harkonnen Ornithopter - flapping-wing craft - Dune by Frank Herbert
- Incom T-47 Snowspeeder - military modified civilian T-24 airspeeder Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
- Invisible plane
- Dragonhawk used by G.I Joe
- Spider's Wing in Dick Tracy
- Mecha Floater - 40th century shape-changing cube vehicle, carrying Mecha researchers over a frozen NYC and Earth - AI: Artificial Intelligence
- P-40 Warhawk h-11o-d - a 1939 two-place, submersible, 5000 hp version of a P-40N Flying Tigers Warhawk, in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 2004
- Sky One, part of SkyDiver from UFO.
- Spaceplane
- The STSST (Shirt Tales SuperSonic Transport) - a multifunction vehicle that was not just a jet, but also a car, boat, submarine, or any other kind of vehicle required of the team. 1982
- The Wing - protagonist ' Lightning 's air vehicle in The Fighting Devil Dogs 1938 serial
- Thunderbirds
- X-Jet Blackbird - X-Men modified SR-71 with VTOL, forward swept wings, & water capabilities
- Valiant is the airborne aircraft carrier in the Sci-Fi series Doctor Who.
- Vampire - New Captain Scarlet
- White Falcon New Captain Scarlet
- Turbo Kat - in Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron
[edit] Commercial
- Atlas Aviation Phoenix - early jet airliner in Cone of Silence. Represented as an Avro Ashton with two additional engines.
- AutogyroCopter - carrying passengers in 2036 - HG Wells' Things to Come 1936
- Antonov 225 (with only four engines) - an Antonov An-124 that is mistaken for the An-225 by one of the game's characters in Battlefield: Bad Company 2[9]
- Antonov 500 - in the film 2012 (2009)
- Boeing 765 - Boeing airliner in Airplane!
- Boeing 987 - Boeing airliner in Lost
- Carreidas 160 - prototype 10-seat, supersonic business jet - Flight 714, The Adventures of Tintin
- Elgin E-474 similar to the Airbus A380 - used in the film Flightplan
- Fireflash - hypersonic transport
- Harrier Citation - VTOL business jet, Harrier wings/engines, Contact 1997, by Carl Sagan
- Hindenburg III - upgraded dirigible over 1939 NY in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- Reindeer - a commercial airliner in Nevil Shute's novel No Highway (1948), later made into the film No Highway in the Sky (1951). The Reindeer had a design flaw that could cause it to crash. The book and film both anticipated the de Havilland Comet disasters a few years later.
- Scott Furlong Sovereign - airliner in the 1960s British television series The Plane Makers
- Skyfleet S570 - A "prototype" plane featured in Casino Royale, actually a Boeing 747-200 originally used by British Airways as "G-BDXJ", but retired after flying for AirAsia and Malaysia Airlines. It was refitted with two mock-up engines on each inner pylon and external fuel tanks on the outer pylons, somewhat anachronistically resembling a B-52 Stratofortress, 2006.
- Spectrum Passenger Jet (SPJ) - Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
- Starflight - hypersonic transport - Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land, made for television, 1983
- Volée Air Flight 180 - A Boeing 747-200 aircraft in the film Final Destination, based on the real life crash of TWA Flight 800.
- A heavily customized 747-200 for the fictional airline in Soul Plane.
- I500-F – A very large strategic cargo airlifter that could carry a whole Airbus A380 fuselage, or an Antonov An-225 fuselage. Used in the spy novels called The International Secret Intelligence Agency.
- A fictional Zeppelin, LZ-131, "Luxemburg", is destroyed over Los Angeles in the climax of the 1991 Walt Disney Productions film The Rocketeer.[10]
[edit] Civilian
[edit] Unmanned
- UCAV EDI - Extreme Deep Invader - armed, quantum circuitry, hypersonic V/STOL mach-4 Navy test Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle, or UCAV - Callsign is Tinman - seen in Stealth 2005
- Camelhump 9 - unmanned extreme altitude dirigible tanker - Stealth 2005
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[edit] Airborne aircraft carriers
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