List of fictional aircraft

List of fictional aircraft
Full-scale Mig 31 Firefox model used in the film Firefox parked at Van Nuys Airport, California in May 1982

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.

Fictional aircraft

Military

• 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.
• 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.
• ADFX-01/02 Morgan, of the Ace Combat series, and the experimental version of the Falken, the 02 was shot down by Cipher at the end of the Belkan War. The destruction of the plane led to the development of the Falken.
• 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.

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

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]

Civilian

• Albatross - 19th century large propellered airship in the novel Robur the Conqueror aka Clipper of the Clouds by Jules Verne, and in the film version of Verne's The Master of the World
• Budgie the Little Helicopter^[11]
• Drake Bullet - an air racer flown by Clark Gable in Test Pilot. A Seversky P-35 was used in the film.
• Hyperion airship, from The Island at the Top of the World
• Jay Jay the Jet Plane
• Flying Wing WT34 - 1970 ' Wings Over The World ' single seat w/ front propeller - Things to Come 1936
• T-16 Skyhopper - Luke's Tatooine canyon flyer - Star Wars: A New Hope
• Space Shuttle - The fictional space shuttle Daedelus carries four geriatric astronauts into space in the 2000 film Space Cowboys.^[12]
• The Terror - 19th century land, sea and air craft invented by Robur the Conqueror featured in Verne's novel The Master of the World
• Volor
• A fictional two seat Bell X-2 is depicted in the 2000 film Space Cowboys being tested at Edwards Air Force Base.^[13]

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

Aircraft carriers

• Land mobile aircraft carrier

Airborne aircraft carriers

See also: Airborne aircraft carrier

• Helicarrier - Nick Fury/S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Cloudbase - Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
• Skybase - Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet
• Iron Vulture - Airship captained by the Air Pirate leader Don Karnage in Disney's TaleSpin
• Valiant - Doctor Who
• Royal Navy flying aircraft carriers – Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
• XB-0 Hresvelgr of the Ace Combat series.
• P-1112 Aigaion Aerial Aircraft Carrier of the Ace Combat series.
• UI-4053 Sphryna Mobile command and control airbone aircraft carrier in the Ace Combat series.
• Air Carrier Justice of the Ring Raiders.
• Protoss Carrier of StarCraft universe.
• Scrin Planetary Assault Carrier of Command & Conquer 3.
• Holy Britannian Empire's HMS Avalon, Caerleon Class, Logres Class, and Black Knights' Ikaruga of Code Geass Series.
• Goliath Rocket powered carrier - Aero Fighters Assault
• Saints Row: The Third- Flying STAG Aircraft Carrier

See also

• Fictional military aircraft
• List of fictional vehicles
• List of fictional spacecraft
• Aircraft in fiction
• Fictional submarine aircraft carriers

References

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2. ^ IMDB (2010). "Trivia for Top Gun (1986)". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092099/trivia. Retrieved 20 August 2010. 
3. ^ Break The Chain (August 2005). "Flight of Fancy". http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/fa37talon.html. Retrieved 20 August 2010. 
4. ^ "VF-0S". Bandai Visual's Official Macross Zero Page: Mechanic Section. Bandai Visual. 2002. http://www.bandaivisual.co.jp/macrosszero/m_vf0.html. Retrieved 2009-07-03. 
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6. ^ "Lot 795: Humphrey Bogart JA-3 miniature in Chain Lightning." liveauctioneers.com. Retrieved: December 30, 2009.
7. ^ ADF-01A/F FALKEN
8. ^ Van Hoten, C: "The Wolf's Lair, Issue 3, p. 6". Veritas Fan Publishing, 2005.
9. ^ Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (2010) (VG)
10. ^ http://spot.colorado.edu/~dziadeck/rf/aircraft.htm
11. ^ "Fergie`s Budgie Coming To U.s.". Sun Sentinel. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/budgie-boost-for-kids-1465257.html. Retrieved 2010-10-15. 
12. ^ Space Cowboys
13. ^ Space Cowboys BY ROGER EBERT