List of fictional aircraft

A F/A-37 Talon mockup on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln from the film Stealth

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

• ADF-01 Falken – 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.^[1]
• AT-99 Scorpion – ducted-fan twin-rotor AH-64 Apache-like gunship – The film Avatar^[2]
• AV-14 Attack VTOL – A UNSC airborne attack vehicle, also Known as the Hornet – from the video game series Halo^[3]
• B-3 – Appears in the film Broken Arrow (1996)^[4]
• BV-38 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.^[5][6]
• C-21 Dragon – VTOL four-post ducted-fan VTOL assault gunship and transport – The film Avatar^[7]
• C709 Longsword-class Interceptor – the UNSC main fighter-bomber in the Halo game series.^[8]
• CFA-44 Nosferatu of the Ace Combat series, this was Estovakia'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)^[9]
• Dropship 79-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 in the Halo franchise^[10][11]
• F-19 Ghostrider – stealth jet in Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising, & Testors kit^[12]
• F-117X Remora – Is an experimental F-117 variant used in the film Executive Decision. It’s modified to transport personnel with an in-flight docking probe designed to dock with other aircraft in midair. Originally designed to relieve fatigued bombers crews at altitude, this aircraft was used to transport a special operations unit to board a commercial airline which had been highjacked by terrorists.
• F/A-37 Talon – near-future, single-seat, hypersonic mach-4 Navy fighter, with variable forward wing sweep. Operational test-stage – Stealth^[13]
• Fenrir of the Ace Combat Series, the superfighter of the Leasath military, equipped with an experimental cloaking device and a microwave radiation weapon^[14]
• F-41 Exoatmospheric Multirole Strike Fighter – A UNSC space based fighter aircraft, also known as the Broadsword. It is also capable of operating in atmosphere. From the video game series Halo^[15]
• Gilbert XF-120 – X-jet (camouflaged XB-51) – Toward the Unknown, 1956^[16]
• Manta Fighter – single-place 1939 twin-prop, with a delta tail & straight wings near the aft, in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow^[17]
• MiG-28 in the film Top Gun, is portrayed by a US Navy F-5E in Soviet markings^[18]

Full-scale MiG-31 Firefox model used in the film Firefox parked at Van Nuys Airport, California in May 1982

• MiG-31 Firefox – hypersonic fighter using thought control – films & novels Firefox and Firefox Down. Its designation is shared with the real MiG-31 Foxhound.^[19]
• MiG-37 Ferret-E – stealth fighter, Testors kit^[20]
• 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.^[21]
• SA-2 Samson – ducted-fan twin-rotor utility assault transport – The film Avatar^[22]
• Spectrum Angel Interceptor – hybrid twin turbojet/single ramjet high performance fighter, from Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.^[23][24]
• Spectrum Passenger Jet (SPJ) – twin turbojet personnel transport, from Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons^[25]
• Su-38 Slamhound – The Russian Spetsnaz Guard Brigade main support fighter in EndWar^[26]
• UH-144 Falcon – A troop transport used by the UNSC defense force in the Halo franchise.^[27]
• V-22 Osprey (fictionalized): In the movie Resident Evil: Afterlife the main flight vehicle used by the Umbrella Corporation is a highly modified V-22 Osprey.^[28]
• Valkyrie Assault Carrier - Is a VTOL Aircraft used by the Imperial Guard in the tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000 and associate media. It is a multirole transport gunship that ferries airborne troops and provides heavy support to these units. In the game it is considered one of the most versatile and durable flyers available (being one of the only 2 aircraft with an armour value of 12 on any side). Its model is one of the largest plastic kits released by Games Workshop and is the largest plastic aircraft released to date (there are several resin models available on Forge World that dwarf the Valkyrie model). It has several variants specialised for roles such as tank hunting, vehicle transport and aerial supremacy.
• VB-02 Vertibird – VTOL tiltrotor aircraft in the Fallout game series. At least two variants exist: a larger transport version that appears in Fallout 2 and a smaller, more compact gunship version armed with a rapid-firing laser weapon, unguided air-to-ground rockets and even small-yield tactical nuclear weapons, appearing in Fallout 3. The gunship variant is implied to be nuclear-powered yet still has enough internal space to carry a squad of soldiers in powered armor. Originally scheduled to be fielded in 2085, a nuclear war in 2077 stopped the project in the prototype stage until the Enclave finished and mass-produced the craft somewhere before 2241.
• VF-0 Phoenix – from the Macross Zero anime science fiction series.^[29]
• Vic Viper – The main and protagonist jet fighter in video game Gradius. It is a high-performance jet fighter, capable of variable attacks.^[30]
• Willis JA-3 – rocket/jet 1400 mph X-plane – Chain Lightning 1950, with Humphrey Bogart^[31]
• X-02 Wyvern, of the Ace Combat series and is the most advanced plane in Erusea's military.^[32]
• XA-20 Razorback – The United States Joint Strike Force main support fighter in EndWar. Also appears in HAWX as a reward for completing the game (or as a download with a UPlay account), revealing it to have stealth capabilities.^[33]
• Yak-12 – Soviet jet (painted T-33) – Jet Pilot w/ John Wayne, 1957 – The Yakovlev Yak-12 does exist, but is a light piston-engine multi-role STOL aircraft.^[16]

Special operations

• Aerowing – built by Lex Luthor with two fuselages, six engines and undernose guns and flown in 1928 (sic) from mid-Atlantic to the Amazon rainforest in the DC Comics book Elseworld's Finest #2^[34]
• Airwolf & Airwolf II (Redwolf)- Bell Textron 222 twin-engined light helicopter, from the television series Airwolf^[35]
• Albatross – New Captain Scarlet^[36]
• AmphibiCopter – 21st century submersible two-seater – AI: Artificial Intelligence 2001^[37]
• Avenjet - used by the Avengers
• Batcopter and Batplane – aircraft used by Batman^[38][39]
• Blue Thunder – Helicopter from the film and television series of the same name.^[40]
• Flying Sub FS-1 – excursion vehicle from the USOS Seaview in the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea series^[41]
• Fortress-1 and Fortress-2, fictional "heli-carrier" airships in Disney's Gargoyles, owned by the fictional Cyberbiotics Corporation and partly piloted by its ailing founder, Halcyon Renard.^[42]
• The Bubble ship flown by Tom Cruise’s character “Jack Harper”, in the sci-fi film Oblivion^[43]
• Helicarrier in Marvel Comics
• Kim-inator Mark XII in Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time
• Ornithopter – flapping-wing craft – Dune by Frank Herbert^[44]
• Incom T-47 Snowspeeder – military modified civilian T-24 airspeeder The Empire Strikes Back^[45]
• Invisible plane from Wonder Woman^[46]
• Quinjet used by the Avengers^[47]
• Sky One, part of the SkyDiver submarine from UFO.^[48][49]
• Spider-Copter in Ultimate Spider-Man
• Spider Jet in Ultimate Spider-Man
• Spider's Wing in Dick Tracy^[50]
• Thunderbird 2 from the Thunderbirds series^[51]
• X-Jet Blackbird – X-Men modified SR-71 with VTOL, forward swept wings, & water capabilities^[52]
• YF-12A X-Jet Prototype – a predecessor to the X-Jet and the SR-71 Blackbird, this jet was designed and flown by Hank McCoy aka Beast. This prototype variant includes VTOL capabilities and an internal cargo hold for several people to sit in. – X-Men: First Class^[53]

Commercial

• Antonov 500 – in the film 2012 (2009), based on the real Antonov An-225^[54]
• Carreidas 160 – prototype 10-seat, supersonic business jet seen in Flight 714, one of The Adventures of Tintin^[55][56]
• Elgin E-474 similar to the Airbus A380 – used in the film Flightplan.^[57]
• Fireflash – hypersonic transport^[58] from the Thunderbirds series
• Hindenburg III – upgraded dirigible over 1939 NY in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow^[59]
• Rutland Reindeer – A plane featured in No Highway in the Sky, a film based loosely on Neville Shute's No Highway^[60] The film aircraft was a modified Handley-Page Halifax/Halton G-AHDM Falmouth. K.A.Merrick's 1980 book states: G-AHDM Falmouth went from BOAC to Aviation Traders; then to Westminster Airways; then converted as Reindeer G-AFOH for film No Highway in the Sky.^[61]
• Skyfleet S570 – A "prototype" plane featured in Casino Royale, actually a Boeing 747-200 originally flown by British Airways as "G-BDXJ". 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).^[62]
• Starflight – hypersonic transport – Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land, made for television, 1983^[63]
• A Zeppelin, LZ-131, "Luxemburg", is destroyed over Los Angeles in the climax of the 1991 Walt Disney Productions film The Rocketeer.^[64]

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.^[65][66]
• Arrow-Car in DC Comics
• Budgie the Little Helicopter^[67][68]
• Conwing L-16 – a fictitious seaplane model based on the Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar featured in the animated Disney series TaleSpin, an example of which is the Sea Duck flown by bush pilot Baloo.^[69][70]
• Drake Bullet – an air racer flown by Clark Gable in Test Pilot. A Seversky P-35 was used in the film.^[71]
• Harold the Helicopter,^[72] Tiger Moth and Jeremy the Jet Plane, from Thomas & Friends
• Jay Jay the Jet Plane^[73]
• T-16 Skyhopper – Luke's Tatooine canyon flyer – Star Wars: A New Hope^[74]
• The Terror – 19th century land, sea and air craft invented by Robur the Conqueror featured in Verne's novel The Master of the World^[66]

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^[75]

Aircraft carriers

Airborne aircraft carriers

• Helicarrier – Nick Fury/S.H.I.E.L.D./The Avengers/Captain America: The Winter Soldier^[76]
• Cloudbase – Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.^[77]
• Skybase – Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet.^[78]
• Iron Vulture – Airship captained by the air pirate leader Don Karnage in the Disney animated series TaleSpin.^[79]
• Valiant – Doctor Who.
• Royal Navy flying aircraft carriers – Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.^[80]
• Pandora – Airship used by Nathan Zachary and his air pirate gang the Fortune Hunters in the Crimson Skies game franchise.^[81]
• XB-0 Hresvelgr and P-1112 Aigaion of the Ace Combat series.^[82]
• Protoss Carrier of StarCraft universe.^[83]

See also

• List of fictional spacecraft
• Aircraft in fiction
• Airborne aircraft carrier
• Land mobile aircraft carrier

References