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[[File:US Navy 021014-N-1955P-004 F-14 Tomcat assigned to VF-103 conducts mission over the Mediterranean Sea.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|Real military aircraft, such as this [[Grumman F-14 Tomcat]], frequently appear in works of fiction.]]
Various real-world aircraft have long made significant appearances in fictional works, including books, films, toys, TV programs, video games, and other media.
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== History ==
The first aviation film was the 1911 [[William J. Humphrey]]–directed two-reeler, ''[[The Military Air-Scout]]'',<ref>{{cite book |last=Copp |first=DeWitt S. |title=A Few Great Captains: The Men and Events That Shaped the Development of U.S. Air Power |series=The Air Force Historical Foundation |year=1980 |publisher=Doubleday & Company, Inc. |location=Garden City, New York |lccn=78-22310 |isbn=0-385-13310-3 |page=7}}</ref> shot after an [[Aero Club of America]] flying meet at [[Long Island, New York|Long Island]], New York. The stunt flying was done by [[Henry H. Arnold|Lt. Henry Arnold]], "who picked up 'a few extra bucks' for his services" and "became so excited about movies that he almost quit the Army to become an actor."{{sfnp|Suid|2002|p=16}}

The years between [[World War I]] and [[World War II]] saw extensive use of aircraft, a new technology, in film, a new medium.{{sfnp|Wohl|2005|p=112}} In the early 1920s, Hollywood studios made dozens of now-obscure "aerial Westerns" with leads such as [[Tom Mix]] and [[Hoot Gibson]], where the role of the horse was taken by aircraft, or used aircraft as nothing more than vehicles for stunts to excite audiences.{{sfnp|Wohl|2005|p=113}} In 1926, the first "proper" aviation film was made; ''[[Wings (1927 film)|Wings]]'' is a story of two pilots who sign up to fly and fight in the First World War.{{sfnp|Wohl|2005|p=114}} Made with the cooperation of the [[United States]]' then-[[United States Department of War|Department of War]] (a relationship that continues to this day), it used front-line military aircraft of the day such as the [[Thomas-Morse MB-3]] and [[Boeing Model 15|Boeing PW-9]], flown by military pilots.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aerofiles.net/film-u.html |title=List of aviation films (U to Z) |website=Aerofiles.com |access-date=16 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100110134416/http://aerofiles.net/film-u.html |archive-date=10 January 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfnp|Wohl|2005|p=117}} Future U.S. Air Force generals [[Henry H. Arnold|Hap Arnold]] and [[Hoyt Vandenberg]] were among the military officers involved with the production: Arnold as a technical consultant and Vandenberg as one of the pilots.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=504086&category=Notes |title=''Wings'' (1927) – Notes on the production |last=Turner Classic Movies |year=2010 |access-date=17 January 2010}}</ref> ''Wings'' was a box-office hit when it achieved general release in 1929 and went on to win the award for Best Production at the first [[Academy Award]]s.{{sfnp|Wohl|2005|p=115}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmsite.org/bestpics3.html |first=Tim |last=Dirks |title=List of Academy Award winners for Best Picture |website=AMC Filmsite |year=2009 |access-date=16 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100110052314/http://www.filmsite.org/bestpics3.html |archive-date=10 January 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In [[Italian Fascism|Fascist Italy]] in the 1930s, aviation-themed films were used as propaganda tools to complement the massed flights led by [[Italo Balbo]] in promoting the regime domestically and abroad.{{sfnp|Wohl|2005|p=93, 109}} One such film was the most successful Italian film of the pre-World War II era; ''Luciano Serra pilota'' (''[[Luciano Serra, Pilot]]'') was inextricably linked to the Fascist government via [[Benito Mussolini|Mussolini's]] son [[Vittorio Mussolini|Vittorio]], who was the driving force behind the film's production.{{sfnp|Wohl|2005|p=109}} The film, set between 1921 and the [[Second Italo-Abyssinian War|Italo-Abyssinian War]], was used to compare the allegedly moribund state of aviation in pre-Fascist Italy with the purported power of the [[Regia Aeronautica]] and Italian aviation in general in the 1930s.{{sfnp|Wohl|2005|pp=109–112}} However, by the time that ''Luciano Serra pilota'' was shown at the 1938 [[Venice Film Festival]], the link between aviation and Fascism had already been firmly established in the minds of the Italian people through widespread depictions of aircraft in a variety of media.{{sfnp|Wohl|2005|p=109}} For example, there was an entire branch of the [[Futurism|Futurist Art movement]] devoted to aviation, known as ''[[Aeropittura]]'' ("Aeropainting").<ref name="Osborn">{{cite web |url=http://simultaneita.net/tulliocrali.html |title=Tullio Crali: the Ultimate Futurist Aeropainter |website=Simultaneita.net |last=Osborn |first=Bob |access-date=17 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100207090815/http://www.simultaneita.net/tulliocrali.html |archive-date=7 February 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> While many of the ''Aeropittura'' works were devoted to flight rather than aircraft ''per se'', some did celebrate Italian aviation exploits, such as Alfredo Ambrosi's ''Il volo su Vienna'' (''The Flight over Vienna'') which depicted in Futurist style the [[Flight over Vienna|World War I exploit]] of [[Gabriele d'Annunzio]]; although the city of Vienna is shown in abstract in accordance with the aims of ''Aeropittura'' – namely to show the dynamism and excitement of flight – the [[Ansaldo SVA]] aircraft are carefully and accurately rendered.<ref name="Osborn"/>{{sfnp|Wohl|2005|p=56}}

The U.S. military controls whether its aircraft may be used for movie or video production. Requests for such use must be accompanied by the proposed production's script, allowing military officials to withhold aircraft when they believe the work will not portray the U.S. military in a sufficiently positive light. Because alternatives to using real military aircraft can be expensive, films that do not get U.S. military approval often do not get financed or made. Sean McElwee, writing for ''[[Salon.com]]'', concluded of this problem,
<blockquote>This is a ''prima facie'' case for de facto censorship...If the government wants to allow its equipment to be used by studios, it needs to grant access to anyone who wants to use it – that is the meaning of pluralism. The Pentagon fears that some of the movies may hurt the military's reputation and recruiting efforts. These concerns are legitimate, but it's more important that we allow [[John Stuart Mill]]'s 'market place of ideas' to be a place for free trade, rather than favoring some over others.<ref name="McElwee06May13">{{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/2013/05/06/man_of_steel_pentagon_propaganda_flic_partner/ |title='Man of Steel': Pentagon Propaganda Flick |first=Sean |last=McElwee |date=6 May 2013 |website=[[Salon.com]] |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref></blockquote>

Aircraft have also appeared in television [[miniseries]] and [[Television series|series]] around the world. These include the American productions ''[[Twelve O'Clock High (TV series)|Twelve O'Clock High]]'', ''[[Airwolf]]'', ''[[Baa Baa Black Sheep (TV series)|Baa Baa Black Sheep]]'', ''[[Sky King]]'' and ''[[Wings (NBC TV series)|Wings]]''; the Australian series ''[[Big Sky (Australian TV series)|Big Sky]]'', ''[[Chopper Squad]]'' and ''[[The Flying Doctors]]'', and the miniseries ''[[The Lancaster Miller Affair]]''; British shows such as ''[[Airline (1982 TV series)|Airline]]'', ''[[Piece of Cake (TV series)|Piece of Cake]]'' and ''[[Squadron (TV series)|Squadron]]'', the Canadian series ''[[Arctic Air]]''; ''[[JETS – Leben am Limit]]'' and ''[[Medicopter 117 – Jedes Leben zählt]]'' from Germany; and the Canadian–British–German co-production ''[[Ritter's Cove]]''.

==A-1 Skyraider==
In the 1953 [[James A. Michener]] novel ''[[The Bridges at Toko-ri (novel)|The Bridges at Toko-ri]]'', [[Douglas A-1 Skyraider|Douglas AD-1 Skyraider]]s fly [[Combat air patrol#CAP types|RESCAP]] missions over a downed [[McDonnell F2H Banshee]] and [[Sikorsky H-5|Sikorsky HO3S-1]] during the [[Korean War]]. In the 1954 film of the [[The Bridges at Toko-Ri|same name]], the Banshee was replaced by a [[Grumman F9F Panther]].<ref name="CoastCompfilm">{{cite web |url=http://www.coastcomp.com/av/fltline2/avmovie.htm |title=Military Aviation Movie List |first=Marshall |last=Cram |website=Coastal Computers |year=1995 |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

Two privately owned Skyraiders depicted U.S. Air Force "Sandy" search-and-rescue escort aircraft in the 1991 film ''[[Flight of the Intruder]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://worldwarwings.com/flight-of-the-intruder-1991-u-s-air-force-a-1-skyraiders/|title=Flight of the Intruder (1991) U.S. Air Force A-1 Skyraiders|website=World War Wings}}</ref>

The Skyraider was among the many aircraft shown providing [[close air support]] during the [[Battle of Ia Drang|First Battle of the Ia Drang Valley Campaign]] in [[Mel Gibson]]'s 2002 film ''[[We Were Soldiers]]'',<ref name="HIFA-1">{{cite web |url=http://www.howitflies.com/Douglas-A-1-Skyraider |title=Douglas A-1 Skyraider |website=How It Flies |year=2016 |access-date=11 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425162523/http://www.howitflies.com/Douglas-A-1-Skyraider |archive-date=25 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://johnnycirucci.com/we-were-soldiers-2002/ |title=We Were Soldiers (2002) |first=Johnny |last=Cirucci |website=johnnycirucci.com |date=29 March 2004 |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref> based on the non-fiction book ''[[We Were Soldiers Once... And Young]]'' by retired Lieutenant General [[Hal Moore]] and reporter [[Joseph L. Galloway]].

The Skyraider appeared in the 2006 [[Werner Herzog]] film [[Rescue Dawn]], which was based on the true story of German-American [[US Navy|Naval]] aviator [[Dieter Dengler]]. After his Skyraider was shot down in 1966 over [[Laos]], Dengler endured months of captivity and torture before he escaped and was rescued.<ref name="NYT Rescue Dawn">{{cite web |last1=Seitz |first1=Matt Zoller |title=A Vietnam P.O.W. Story, Tangling With the Vines of Convention |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/movies/04dawn.html |website=The New York Times |date=4 July 2007}}</ref>

The Skyraider is briefly shown in the 2022 Korean War drama film ''[[Devotion (2022 film)|Devotion]]''.<ref name=EAA11-22/><ref name=blacklabel/>

==A-6 Intruder==
The 1986 [[Stephen Coonts]] novel ''[[Flight of the Intruder (novel)|Flight of the Intruder]]'' is about two [[naval aviator]]s who take their [[Grumman A-6 Intruder]] on an unauthorized bombing raid on [[Hanoi]] during the Vietnam War. It was made into a 1991 film [[Flight of the Intruder|of the same name]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D0CE5DC1638F93BA25752C0A967958260 |title=Technology Is the Star Of 'Intruder' |last=Canby |first=Vincent |date=18 January 1991 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

==A-10 Thunderbolt II==
[[File:Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II - 32156159151.jpg|thumb|left|[[Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II|A-10 Thunderbolt II]]]]

The [[Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II|A-10 Thunderbolt II]] is among the player-flyable aircraft in the 1989 video game ''[[U.N. Squadron]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.giantbomb.com/un-squadron/3030-16642/ |title=U.N. Squadron |website=Giant Bomb |year=2016 |access-date=4 October 2016}}</ref> The aircraft is also featured in the 1989 video game ''[[A-10 Tank Killer]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.giantbomb.com/a-10-tank-killer/3030-4003/ |title=A-10 Tank Killer |website=Giant Bomb |year=2017 |access-date=25 January 2017}}</ref> It has since appeared in the ''[[Ace Combat]]'' series<ref>{{cite web |last=Nelva |first=Giuseppe |date=12 December 2018 |title=New Ace Combat 7 trailer stars the mighty A-10C "Warthog" |url=https://twinfinite.net/2018/12/ace-combat-7-trailer-warthog/ |access-date=16 September 2019 |publisher=Twinfinite}}</ref> and is a [[Combat flight simulation game#Study|study-level]] aircraft in the combat flight simulator [[Digital Combat Simulator|DCS world]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hall|first=Charlie|date=2020-10-02|title=The world's most intimidating flight sim gets a big update|url=https://www.polygon.com/2020/10/2/21499259/dcs-warthog-a-10c-2-early-access-release-date-price-upgrade|access-date=2021-03-25|website=Polygon|language=en}}</ref>

In the 2005 film ''[[Jarhead (film)|Jarhead]],'' A-10s attack U.S. Marine forces in a [[friendly fire]] incident.<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808125402/http://www.dvdtown.com/review/jarheadhd-dvd/18849/3670/ |archive-date=8 August 2007 |url=http://www.dvdtown.com/review/jarheadhd-dvd/18849/3670/ |title=HD DVD review of Jarhead |first=Dean |last=Winkelspecht |website=DVDTOWN.com |date=15 May 2006 |access-date=11 June 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Most incarnations of the [[Autobot]] Powerglide, who first appeared in [[Hasbro|Hasbro's]] ''[[Transformers]]'' toy line in 1985, transform into an A-10.<ref>{{cite web |last=Yee |first=Benson |year=2008 |title=Transformers Universe 2.0 Toy Review: Powerglide |url=http://www.bwtf.com/toyreviews/universe2/powerglide |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201173901/http://www.bwtf.com/toyreviews/universe2/powerglide |archive-date=1 February 2010 |access-date=19 January 2010 |website=Ben's World of Transformers}}</ref><ref name="Spring2008ToysRUs">{{cite web |last=Hasbro |year=2008 |title=Spring 2008 Toys R Us Exclusives |url=https://www.hasbro.com/transformers/default.cfm?page=News/Item&newsid=4EC7EA7D-D56F-E112-46AC70D02754072E |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501215205/http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/default.cfm?page=News%2FItem&newsid=4EC7EA7D-D56F-E112-46AC70D02754072E |archive-date=1 May 2008 |access-date=8 December 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Bellomo|first=Mark|date=July 5, 2016|title=The Ultimate Guide to Vintage Transformers Action Figures|location=Wisconsin|publisher=Krause Publications|page=41|isbn=978-1440246401}}</ref>

In the 2009 film ''[[Terminator Salvation]]'', several A-10s are sent to support the ground troops led by [[John Connor]] in the opening sequence of the film. Later, two Resistance A-10s are shot down when trying to intercept the machine transport in which Marcus Wright and [[Kyle Reese]] were captive.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Axe |first1=David |title=A-10= Terminator-Killer |url=http://www.warisboring.com/2009/05/23/a-10s-terminator-killers/ |website=War is Boring |access-date=13 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714121547/http://www.warisboring.com/2009/05/23/a-10s-terminator-killers/ |archive-date=14 July 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=FSR Staff |title=Terminator Salvation: 20 Things We Didn't like, 10 We Did |url=https://filmschoolrejects.com/features/terminator-salvation-20-things-we-didnt-like-10-we-did.php |website=Film School Rejects |access-date=13 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714122011/http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/terminator-salvation-20-things-we-didnt-like-10-we-did.php |archive-date=14 July 2014}}</ref>

In the 2013 film ''[[Man of Steel (film)|Man of Steel]],'' three A-10s are sent to [[Smallville (comics)|Smallville]] to kill [[Superman]] and [[General Zod]] and his henchmen, who destroy two of the jets.<ref>{{cite web |first=Scott |last=Chitwood |url=http://www.superherohype.com/features/articles/177083-from-the-set-of-the-man-of-steel |date=30 May 2013 |title=From the Set of Man of Steel |website=SuperHeroHype.com |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

==A-26/B-26 Invader==
Two [[Douglas A-26 Invader|A-26]] [[Aerial firefighting|firebombers]] were featured in the 1989 [[Steven Spielberg]] film ''[[Always (1989 film)|Always]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Farmer |first=James H. |title=The Making of 'Always' |journal=Air Classics |volume=26 |number=2 |date=February 1990}}</ref> Attempts to use radio-controlled models for special effects shots were abandoned as unworkable; instead, models were "flown" from wire rigs.{{sfnp|Cotta Vaz|Duignan|1996|p=42}}

==A6M Zero==
[[File:A6M3 Zero N712Z.jpg|thumb|right|[[Mitsubishi A6M Zero]]]]
The [[Mitsubishi A6M Zero]] was featured in the films ''[[The Final Countdown (film)|The Final Countdown]]'',<ref name="Air_and_Space">{{cite journal |url=http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/popculture.html |title=Star Quality |date=1 September 2006 |journal=[[Air & Space/Smithsonian|Air & Space]] |access-date=11 January 2010}}</ref> ''[[Pearl Harbor (film)|Pearl Harbor]]'',<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sptimes.com/News/052701/news_pf/Floridian/More_romance_than_his.shtml |title=More romance than history |last=Persall |first=Steve |date=27 May 2001 |newspaper=[[Tampa Bay Times|St. Petersburg Times]] |access-date=11 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016153416/http://www.sptimes.com/News/052701/news_pf/Floridian/More_romance_than_his.shtml |archive-date=16 October 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.houstonpress.com/2001-05-24/film/bora-bora-bora/ |title=Bora! Bora! Bora! |last=Wilonsky |first=Robert |date=24 May 2001 |newspaper=[[Houston Press]] |access-date=11 January 2010 |archive-date=15 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615072743/http://www.houstonpress.com/2001-05-24/film/bora-bora-bora/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> and ''[[Tora! Tora! Tora!]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wyYhAAAAIBAJ&pg=2871,98636&dq=zero+tora-tora-tora&hl=en |title=Texas Air Museum Takes Shape |last=Murray |first=Joe |date=11 June 1990 |newspaper=[[Sarasota Herald-Tribune]] |page=11A |access-date=11 January 2010}}</ref> The Zero was also depicted in the 1976 film ''[[Midway (1976 film)|Midway]]''; however real Zeros were not used. Modified [[North American T-6 Texan|T-6 Texans]] were used in ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'', ''Midway'', and ''The Final Countdown'' to depict A6M2 Type 21 Zero fighters, and some footage from the former was reused in the latter.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/414244/Midway/trivia.html |title=Trivia for Midway (1976) |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/wix/wixdownloads.html |title=Downloads:Tora Tora Tora Aircraft List |website=Warbird Information Exchange |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.december7.com/1941/Classic_Movie_Planes/ |title=Tora, Tora, Tora! I Saw Pearl Harbor Bombed in '69 |website=December7.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202125449/http://www.december7.com/1941/Classic_Movie_Planes/ |archive-date=2 February 2014}}</ref> Three [[Mitsubishi A6M Zero#A6M5 Type 0 Model 52|Type 52]] Zeros were used in ''Pearl Harbor''. Two restored aircraft operated by Flight Magic, and one in the [[Planes of Fame Air Museum]] collection were barged to Hawaii where "all three aircraft were extensively flown with few problems until NX6528L suffered a gear-up landing. Fortunately, this was near the end of filming. NX6528L was shipped to Pete Regina Aviation at [[Van Nuys, California]] where it was returned to flying condition. This aircraft is now with the [[Commemorative Air Force]] Southern California Wing at [[Camarillo Airport]]."<ref>{{cite journal |last=O'Leary |first=Michael |title=Touch of Magic |journal=Warbirds International |volume=31 |issue=July/August 2012 |pages=37–38}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Pearl Harbor: The Movie and the Moment |editor1-first=Linda |editor1-last=Sunshine |editor2-first=Antonia |editor2-last=Felix |location=New York |publisher=Hyperion |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-78686-7-806 |url=https://archive.org/details/pearlharbormovie00suns}}</ref>

The A5M and A6M are both featured in ''[[The Wind Rises]]'', a 2013 [[Studio Ghibli]] animated fictionalized biopic of Zero designer Jiro Horikoshi.<ref name="variety1"/>

Zero fighters are shown in the 2013 Japanese novel ''Eien No Zero'' (''The Eternal Zero'') by [[Naoki Hyakuta]], which was made into a 2013 [[The Eternal Zero|film of the same name]] directed by [[Takashi Yamazaki]].<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/film-review-japanese-hit-the-eternal-zero-1201155266/# |title='The Eternal Zero' Review: A Wrenching Account of a Kamikaze Pilot |first=Maggie |last=Lee |date=12 April 2014 |journal=Variety |access-date=5 January 2015}}</ref>

==Aérospatiale Gazelle==
A heavily modified [[Aérospatiale Gazelle]] was the centerpiece of the 1983 [[John Badham]] action film ''[[Blue Thunder]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.questia.com/magazine/1P3-1296969391/blue-thunder |title=Blue Thunder |author=Veze, Robert |date=May 1983 |volume=64 |number=5 |magazine=[[American Cinematographer]] |url-access=subscription |access-date=10 January 2020}}</ref> The [[Blue Thunder (helicopter)|same helicopter]] appeared in the short-lived 1984 [[Blue Thunder (TV series)|TV series by the same name]] starring [[James Farentino]]. The modified Gazelle went on to be used in the TV mini-series ''[[Amerika (miniseries)|Amerika]]''.<ref name="BlueThunder">{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/bluethunder.html |title=Blue Thunder |website=Rotary Action |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923185339/http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/bluethunder.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref>

==Aérospatiale Puma==
Modified [[Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma]]s were used to depict [[Mil Mi-24]] helicopter gunships in the films ''[[Red Dawn]]'' (1984), ''[[Rambo: First Blood Part II]]'' (1985), and ''[[Rambo III]]'' (1988).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/rambo3.html |title=Rambo 3 |website=Rotary Action |first=Nathan |last=Decker |access-date=2 January 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923174920/http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/rambo3.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref><ref name="RotaryactionR">{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/r.html |title=Films – R |website=Rotary Action |access-date=2 January 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923181744/http://www.rotaryaction.com/r.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/redawn84.html |title=Red Dawn |website=Rotary Action |first=Costas |last=Tsaganas |access-date= 2 January 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150924092216/http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/redawn84.html |archive-date= 24 September 2015}}</ref>

==AgustaWestland AW101==
At the climax of the 2012 [[James Bond]] film ''[[Skyfall]]'', an armed [[AgustaWestland AW101|AgustaWestland AW101 Merlin]] transport helicopter is used in the main villain Silva's assault on Bond and M at Bond's childhood home.<ref>{{cite web |author1=AgustaWestland |title=AW1001 James Bond 007 Skyfall |url=https://www.leonardocompany.com/en/press-release-detail/-/detail/aw-007-skyfall |website=www.leonardocompany.com |publisher=Leonardo S.p.A. |access-date=19 September 2021 |date=31 October 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Cenciotti |first1=David |title=James Bond's badass helicopter: the AW101 Skyfall |url=https://theaviationist.com/2012/11/26/aw101-skyfall/ |website=The Aviationist |access-date=19 September 2021 |date=26 November 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=AgustaWestland AW101 Helicopter |url=https://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/product/agustawestland-aw101-helicopter |website=Bond Lifestyle |date=31 October 2012 |access-date=19 September 2021}}</ref>

==AH-64 Apache==
The [[Boeing AH-64 Apache]] had a major role in the 1990 action-[[thriller film]] directed by [[David Green (director)|David Green]], ''[[Fire Birds]]'' (or ''Wings of the Apache'').<ref name="RotaryActionWings">{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/firebirds.html |title=Wings of the Apache |website=Rotary Action |access-date=12 September 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923175348/http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/firebirds.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref>

The 1992 shooter game ''[[Desert Strike]]'' has the main character flying the AH-64 to complete various missions.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mobygames.com/game/desert-strike-return-to-the-gulf |title=Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf for Amiga (1993) |website=MobyGames |access-date=2017-12-19}}</ref>

[[Gunship (video game)|Gunship]] is an AH-64 Apache helicopter simulation that was released by Microprose in 1986.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mobygames.com/game/gunship |title=Gunship |website=Moby Games |access-date=9 January 2011}}</ref> The sequel [[Gunship 2000]] was released in 1991.<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=http://www.mobygames.com/game/gunship-2000 |title=Gunship 2000 |website=Moby Games |access-date=11 March 2017}}</ref> Since then, the helicopter has also made an appearance in the hardcore study-level sim [[Digital Combat Simulator|DCS: World]], being praised for its accurate depiction of the systems and procedures.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DCS: AH-64D Apache - 25 years of Quality Evolution |url=https://www.gamepressure.com/editorials/evolution-of-ah-64-apache-in-flight-sims-from-gunship-to-dcs/zb560 |access-date=2022-09-13 |website=Gamepressure.com |language=en}}</ref>

In the 2008 film ''[[The Incredible Hulk (film)|The Incredible Hulk]]'', an AH-64 was used in an attempt to kill the Hulk with the unusual configuration of twin, pylon-mounted [[M134 Minigun|miniguns]].<ref name="RotaryActionI"/>

In the 2009 film ''[[G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra]]'', Apaches provide [[air cover]] for a convoy carrying [[nanotechnology]]-based weapons.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sheftick |first1=Gary |first2=Grafton |last2=Pritchartt |url=http://www.army.mil/article/25630/ |title=Soldiers Who Helped Film 'GI Joe' Now in Combat Theater |journal=U.S. Army News |date=7 August 2009 |access-date=16 July 2011}}</ref>

==Airspeed Horsa==
The assault on what would later be known as the [[Pegasus Bridge]] over the [[Caen Canal]] in France by British commandos landing in [[Airspeed Horsa]] gliders was depicted in the 1962 war epic ''[[The Longest Day (film)|The Longest Day]]''. Only one Horsa replica was actually constructed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.strijdbewijs.nl/birds/gliders.htm |title=Hotspur, Hamlicar, Horsa, Hadrian & Hengist |website=D-Day Battlefield Normandy |access-date=20 May 2010}}</ref>

Ten non-flyable Airspeed Horsa mockups were fabricated for the filming of the 1977 film ''[[A Bridge Too Far (film)|A Bridge Too Far]]''.<ref name="Hurst_p33-34">{{cite journal |last=Hurst |first=Flt. Lt. K. J. |title=Talkback column: DC-3 Project Officer for the film |journal=[[Air International]] |date=July 1977 |volume=13 |number=1 |pages=33–34}}</ref>

==Albatros fighter (generic)==
An [[Albatros Flugzeugwerke|Albatros]] fighter appears in the 1966 novel ''In the Company of Eagles'' by [[Ernest K. Gann|Ernest K Gann]]. The novel is set in 1916 during the First World War and features a German ace pilot Lt Sebastian Kupper of Jasta 76 who, flying an Albatros scout, pursues a burning French aircraft and, in what was intended as an act of mercy, kills the pilot so as to spare him from slowly burning to death. The gesture is misinterpreted as an act of murder by one of the French pilot's comrades, Sgt. Paul Chamay who vows to seek and kill the German pilot.<ref>Muhlfeld, Edward. D. ''[[Flying (magazine)|Flying]]'' Ziff Davis Publishing Company, NY. February 1967. Volume 80, No 2. p. 104.</ref>

==American Eagle A-1==
At least two [[American Eagle A-101|American Eagle A-1s]] were employed in the production of the 1930 film [[Young Eagles (film)|''Young Eagles'']] which was directed by [[William A. Wellman]] and starred [[Charles "Buddy" Rogers|Buddy Rogers]] and [[Jean Arthur]]. The film portrayed American pilots serving in France during the Great War. Although the A-1 was a post-WW1 trainer, the film-makers considered it suitable to portray wartime aircraft. One Eagle was painted with USAS insignia while a second was painted with German markings. Stunt pilot [[Dick Grace]] was hired to deliberately crash-land both of them in separate scenes, which severely damaged both aircraft. Grace escaped injury on both occasions.<ref>Carlson, Mark. ''Flying on Film: A Century of Aviation in the Movies 1912-2012'' Bearmanor Media, 2012 pp. 56-58.</ref>

==Avro Anson==
[[File:Anson VH-BAF "Roscoe Turner Boeing 247".JPG|thumb|left|This [[Avro Anson]] was used in the Australian television miniseries ''[[The Great Air Race (1990 Australian Mini-Series)|The Great Air Race]]'' as a "stand-in" to represent the [[Boeing 247]] flown by [[Roscoe Turner]] in the [[MacRobertson Air Race]].]]

An [[Avro Anson]] was used as a "stand-in" to represent the [[Boeing 247]] ''Race 57'' flown in the 1934 England-to-Australia [[MacRobertson Air Race]] by [[Roscoe Turner]], in the 1991 Australian television miniseries ''[[The Great Air Race (miniseries)|The Great Air Race]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Reid |first=Bill |date=2004 |title=Avro Anson Project |magazine=Classic Wings |location=Blenheim, New Zealand |volume=11 |issue=45 (#2 March–April) |pages=22–25 |url=https://www.classicwings.com/classic-wings-editions.php?y=2004}}</ref> Turner was played by [[Barry Bostwick]] in the miniseries.

==Avro Ashton==
An [[Avro Ashton]], in its six-engined, Olympus testbed form, appeared as the fictitious ''Phoenix'' airliner in ''[[Cone of Silence (1960 film)|Cone of Silence]]'' (1960), based on the novel of the same name<ref>{{cite book |title=Cone of Silence |first=David |last=Beaty |author-link=Arthur David Beaty |location=New York |publisher=Morrow |year=1959}}</ref> by [[Arthur David Beaty|David Beaty]], a former [[BOAC]] pilot. This concerned the takeoff problems of the ''Phoenix'', and the subsequent accident investigation; it was based on two takeoff accidents to the [[de Havilland Comet#Operational history|de Havilland Comet]].<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1960/1960%20-%200610.html |title=Conspiracy of Silence |issue=2668 |volume=77 |page=610 |journal=[[Flight International|Flight]] |date=29 April 1960 |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

==Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow==
The [[Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow]] makes a prominent appearance in Daniel Wyatt's 1990 novel, ''The Last Flight of the Arrow''. In the novel, the real-life destruction of the fighter is a cover for a secret U.S.-Canadian continental air-defense initiative that fields a fleet of Arrows. A Polish-Canadian [[Royal Canadian Air Force]] pilot flies one Arrow on a high-speed reconnaissance flight over Russia to find proof that the Soviet Union is planning an airstrike on North America.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wyatt |first=Daniel |title=The Last Flight of the Arrow |publisher=[[Random House of Canada]] |year=1990 |isbn=9780345365941}}</ref>

==Avro Lancaster==
[[File:Battle of Britain Memorial flight Avro Lancaster (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|[[Avro Lancaster]]]]

The [[Avro Lancaster]] was the best-known [[Royal Air Force]] heavy bomber of World War II.<ref>[http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/theaircraft/lancasterhistory.cfm RAF BBMF - The Lancaster] Retrieved 14 March 2017</ref> As such it has appeared in many works of fiction related to [[Bomber Command]] and its night raids over Germany and occupied Europe.

Lancasters appeared in the 1952 British war film ''[[Appointment in London]]'' (released in the US as ''Raiders in the Sky'') directed by [[Philip Leacock]] and starring [[Dirk Bogarde]].<ref>{{cite web |first=Benjamin |last=Nicoll |url=http://mangaloreairport.com.au/history/the-lancaster-centre/ |title=The Lancaster Centre |website=Mangalore Airport, Australia |access-date=8 February 2013}}</ref> Three Lancasters were used in the production—NX673, NX679, and NX782, the same three that were used in the filming of ''The Dam Busters'' three years later.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lancaster-archive.com/lanc_movietv.htm |title=Lancaster Movie and TV Appearance Credits |website=Lancaster Archive |access-date=8 February 2013}}</ref>

The Lancaster was central to the second half of the 1955 British film ''[[The Dam Busters (film)|The Dam Busters]]''. This is a dramatisation of the real-life [[Operation Chastise]], which included the forming of [[No. 617 Squadron RAF]] commanded by [[Wing Commander (rank)|Wing Commander]] [[Guy Gibson]], who was awarded the [[Victoria Cross]] (VC), and the bombing of the [[Möhne Dam|Möhne]], [[Edersee Dam|Eder]] and [[Sorpe Dam]]s in Germany to interrupt water and [[hydro-electric]] power supplies to German munitions factories.<ref name=Gilchrist>{{cite news |url=http://news.scotsman.com/uk/-A-dam-good-show.4090579.jp |title=A dam good show |last=Gilchrist |first=Jim |date=16 May 2008 |newspaper=[[The Scotsman]] |access-date=6 February 2010 |location=Edinburgh}}</ref> The film is based on the books ''[[The Dam Busters (book)|The Dam Busters]]'' by [[Paul Brickhill]] and ''[[Enemy Coast Ahead]]'' by Guy Gibson. A number of B VII Lancasters in storage were modified to the original configuration of the B III (Special) for use on screen.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Garbett |first1=Mike |last2=Goulding |first2=Brian |date=1971 |title=The Lancaster at War |isbn=0-7737-0005-6 |publisher=Musson Book Company |location=Toronto |pages=142–143}}</ref>

The Lancaster also appeared in ''[[The Guns of Navarone (film)|The Guns of Navarone]]'' (1961).<ref>{{cite book |last=Robson |first=Martin |date=2012 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |title=The Lancaster Bomber Pocket Manual: 1941–1945 |isbn=978-1-8448-6153-8 |page=11++}}</ref>

A 1989 British commercial for [[Carling Black Label]] [[lager]] reused Avro Lancaster footage in a Dam Busters parody sequence where a German soldier on top of a dam catches the Lancaster's bombs like a [[Goalkeeper (association football)|football goalkeeper]]. The pilot of the attacking Lancaster then delivers the brand slogan: "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label!" The commercial ran for many years, frequently appearing in commercial breaks during broadcasts of both ''The Dam Busters'' and documentaries about [[Operation Chastise]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWZVDiVvKsg "Carling Black Label ad"]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved: 6 August 2013.</ref>

[[Len Deighton]]'s 1970 novel ''[[Bomber (novel)|Bomber]]'' describes an attack by [[Royal Air Force]] Lancasters on [[Krefeld]], Germany, during which a series of unplanned incidents leads to the [[carpet bombing]] of a small town nearby.<ref>{{cite book|last=Deighton |first=Len |title=Bomber: Events Relating to the Last Flight of an RAF Bomber Over Germany on the Night of June 31st, 1943 |year=1978 |publisher=HarperCollins UK |isbn=978-0-586-04544-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/bombereventsrela0000deig}}</ref>

The Avro Lancaster was also featured in the UK television series ''[[Pathfinders (TV series)|Pathfinders]]'', aired in 1972, concentrating on the lives of the aircrew of a fictional Pathfinder squadron during the Second World War.<ref>Alsop, Neil. [http://www.startrader.co.uk/Action%20TV/articles/pathfinders.htm "Scheduled Flight Disappears from Screen: Neil Alsop Recalls the Forgotten Heroes of TV's Pathfinders"]. ''Action TV Online''. Retrieved 27 September 2009.</ref>

Lancasters appear in the 2011 novel ''Dambuster'' by Robert Radcliffe.<ref>{{cite news |last=Norfolk |first=Pam |url=http://www.bridlingtonfreepress.co.uk/lifestyle/book-review-dambuster-by-robert-radcliffe-1-3139273 |title=Book review: Dambuster by Robert Radcliffe |newspaper=[[Bridlington Free Press]] |date=10 March 2011 |access-date=8 February 2013}}</ref>

The 2019 budget independent film ''[[Lancaster Skies]]'' (also titled ''Our Shining Sword'') centres on a loner who takes over as leader of a Lancaster crew.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/22/lancaster-skies-review-callum-burn|title=Lancaster Skies review – off-target wartime bomber drama |first=Cath |last=Clarke |date=22 February 2019 |website=The Guardian |access-date=13 September 2019}}</ref>

The Avro Lancaster was the preferred aircraft of the fictional war hero pilot [[Matt Braddock]], who first appeared in the British story paper ''[[The Rover (story paper)|The Rover]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=I Flew With Braddock |url=http://www.britishcomics.20m.com/matt.htm |access-date=2021-09-13 |website= britishcomics.20m.com}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=September 2021}} and later in comic strips in British action comics ''[[The Victor (comics)|The Victor]]'' and ''[[Warlord (DC Thomson)|Warlord]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gifford |first=Dennis |title=Encyclopedia of Comic Characters |publisher=Longman |year=1987 |pages=33}}</ref>

==Avro Vulcan==
[[Avro Vulcan]]s are the central feature of the 2008 aviation novel by English author [[Derek Robinson (novelist)|Derek Robinson]], titled ''Hullo Russia, Goodbye England''. A British [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] pilot named Silk, a veteran of Bomber Command in the Second World War, rejoins the service at the height of the [[Cold War]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Nicholas |last=Lezard |author-link=Nicholas Lezard |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/apr/18/hullo-russia-goodbye-england-robinson |title=Jolly good show |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |date=18 April 2009 |access-date=8 February 2013}}</ref>

The 1965 [[James Bond]] film ''[[Thunderball (film)|Thunderball]]'' features the hijacking of an Avro Vulcan for its nuclear bombs.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-04-03|title=The Avro Vulcan bomber from Thunderball|url=https://www.thejamesbonddossier.com/content/the-avro-vulcan-bomber-from-thunderball.htm|access-date=2020-09-26|website=The James Bond Dossier}}</ref>

==B-1 Lancer==
A [[B-1B Lancer]] was portrayed as the laser weapon's test bed in the closing scenes of the 1985 film ''[[Real Genius]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://aviationintel.com/b-1-laser-real-genius-to-really-happening/|title=B-1 Laser: "Real Genius" To Really Happening!??!?|work=aviationintel.com|access-date=7 December 2020}}{{Self-published source|date=December 2020}}</ref>

A B-1B drops bombs during the climactic battle scene in the 2009 film ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://events.charlotteobserver.com/reviews/show/49667-review-transformers-revenge-of-the-fallen |first=Roger |last=Moore |date=July 2009 |title=Movie Review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen |newspaper=[[The Charlotte Observer]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211231905/http://events.charlotteobserver.com/reviews/show/49667-review-transformers-revenge-of-the-fallen |archive-date=11 December 2013}}</ref>

==B-2 Spirit==
The [[Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit]] is featured in the 1996 ''[[Independence Day (1996 film)|Independence Day]]'' film, where it fires a nuclear missile at an antagonist alien spaceship.<ref>{{cite book |last=Beck |first=Simon D. |title=The Aircraft-Spotter's Film and Television Companion |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nh6TDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA313|year=2016|publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-6349-4 |page=313}}</ref> In the movie ''[[Cloverfield]]'', the aircraft bombs a monster that is destroying [[Manhattan]]. The bomber also appeared in the films ''[[Iron Man 2]]'', ''[[Captain Marvel (film)|Captain Marvel]]'', and ''[[Rampage (2018 film)|Rampage]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=10 Cool Facts about the B-2 |url=https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/air/b-2-stealth-bomber/10-cool-facts-about-the-b-2|access-date=2021-08-23|website=Northrop Grumman|language=en-US}}</ref>

==B-17 Flying Fortress==
[[File:Memphis Belle - 180514-F-IO108-003.jpg|thumb|left|[[Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress]]]]

[[Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress]]es of the [[132d Air Refueling Squadron|132nd Bomb Squadron]], [[9th Reconnaissance Wing|9th Bomb Group]] from [[March Field]], California, ("Land of the Flying Fortress") were featured in the 1941 [[Paramount Pictures]] film ''[[I Wanted Wings]]'', based on the novel of the same title by 1st Lt. [[Beirne Lay Jr.]]<ref name="CoastCompfilm"/>

In [[William Wyler]]'s 1946 film ''[[The Best Years of Our Lives]]'', B-17s are prominently featured. The primary male characters hitch a cross country ride in a B-17E Flying Fortress early in the story, and at the conclusion the scrapyard at [[Chino, California]], is shown full of disposal B-17s and [[Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress|YB-40]] [[gunship]] versions of the B-17.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aerovintage.com/bestyrs.htm |title=The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) |website=Aero Vintage Books |date=July 2006 |access-date=30 April 2010}}</ref>

B-17s also figured prominently in the Oscar-winning 1949 film ''[[Twelve O'Clock High]]'' starring [[Gregory Peck]]. The film concerns aviation leadership and the human toll in the USAAF strategy of daylight precision bombing.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aerovintage.com/12oclock.htm |title=Twelve O'Clock High (1949) |website=Aero Vintage Books |date=June 2008 |access-date=11 January 2010}}</ref> The US Air Force cooperated in the production of the film, lending aircraft to the producers and allowing filming at [[Eglin Air Force Base]] and at [[Cairns Army Airfield|Ozark Army Air Field]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/94088/Twelve-O-Clock-High/notes.html |title=Twelve O'Clock High |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=6 February 2010}}</ref> The film featured an actual crash landing of a B-17, piloted by veteran stunt pilot [[Paul Mantz]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yZMtAAAAIBAJ&pg=7185,1597797&dq=famous+airplane+film&hl=en |title=Famous stunt flyer dies in film crash |date=9 July 1965 |newspaper=[[Montreal Gazette]] |page=35 |access-date=6 February 2010}}</ref>

B-17s appear in the 1951 novel ''The Sun is Silent'' by [[Saul Levitt]] which traces the journey of a B-17 crew from their training through to daylight bombing missions over Germany. The author himself had served as a radioman/gunner in a B-17 during the war.<ref>Wald, Alan M. ''Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Anti-Fascist Crusade'', p. 197. University of North Carolina Press, 2011.</ref>

For the 1954 film ''[[The Glenn Miller Story]]'', directed by [[Anthony Mann]], a wartime performance set in a UK air base hangar was shot in Hangar No. 1 at [[Lowry Air Force Base]], Colorado, on 10 July 1953, with the late-production B-17G command aircraft of Gen. [[John G. Sprague]], commanding officer of Lowry, as a backdrop. It received a wartime coat of olive drab paint for the appearance, but the chin turret was removed. Anachronistic B-29 engine cowlings line the back wall of the hangar, although B-29s were not used in the [[European Theatre of Operations|ETO]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://photos.denverpost.com/2012/02/28/photos-filming-the-glenn-miller-story-in-denver/30529/#7 |title=Photos: Filming "The Glenn Miller Story" in Denver |newspaper=[[The Denver Post]] |date=28 February 2012 |access-date=12 February 2014 |archive-date=22 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222101115/http://photos.denverpost.com/2012/02/28/photos-filming-the-glenn-miller-story-in-denver/30529/#7 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aerovintage.com/thunderball.htm |title=Thunderball (1965) |website=Aero Vintage Books |date=October 2009 |access-date=30 April 2010}}</ref>

The 1962 film ''[[The War Lover]]'' featured a B-17G and two former Coast Guard PB-1G rescue aircraft restored cosmetically to the appearance of B-17Gs. These planes were flown from the US to [[RAF Bovingdon]] for filming by a group including author [[Martin Caidin]], who documented the journey in his book ''Everything But The Flak''. One of the three planes now resides at the [[Lyon Air Museum]] in [[Santa Ana, California]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lyonairmuseum.org/exhibits/airplanes/boeing-b-17-flying-fortress|title=Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress"|work=[[Lyon Air Museum]]|year=2022|access-date=11 September 2023}}</ref>

Five flyable B-17s were secured by producer [[Elmo Williams]] for use in the filming of the 1970 motion picture ''[[Tora! Tora! Tora!]]''. During filming, one B-17 suffered a [[landing gear]] malfunction, forcing it to land on one wheel. Williams ordered a camera crew to film the landing and incorporated the footage into the film's script.{{sfnp|Suid|2002|pp=277 & 297}}

The B-17 Flying Fortress was the subject of the 1990 [[Warner Bros.]] film ''[[Memphis Belle (film)|Memphis Belle]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,318436,00.html |title=Final Mission |last=Kilday |first=Gregg |date=26 October 1990 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |issue=37 |access-date=11 January 2010 |archive-date=21 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091221043932/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,318436,00.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> During filming, one of the five vintage B-17s was destroyed in an accidental crash and a second was damaged when an engine cowling detached in flight, tearing a chunk out of the aircraft's tail. There were no injuries in either incident.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bowman |first=Martin |title=Spirits in the Sky: Classic Aircraft of World War II |publisher=Greenwich Editions |year=1995 |page=11 |isbn=978-0-86288-080-4}}</ref>

B-17s are the main aircraft featured in two novels depicting fictional characters in the US daylight bombing offensive over Germany and Occupied Europe, American writer Sam Helpert's ''A Real Good War'' (1997)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.b17sam.com/samplepage.html |title=B-17 B24 – A Real Good War |website=B17sam.com |date=8 September 1944 |access-date=9 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012150841/http://www.b17sam.com/samplepage.html |archive-date=12 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and UK author Robert Radcliffe's ''Under an English Heaven'' (2004).<ref>{{cite web |first=Lizzie |last=Guilfoyle |url=http://www.indielondon.co.uk/books/under_english_heaven.html |title=Books – Under An English Heaven, Robert Radcliffe |website=Indielondon.co.uk |access-date=9 July 2012 |archive-date=12 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012172649/http://www.indielondon.co.uk/books/under_english_heaven.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>

For [[George Lucas]]' 2012 film ''[[Red Tails]]'' about the [[332d Fighter Group]], the [[Tuskegee Airmen]], the B-17G "Pink Lady" operated by the ''Association Forteresse Toujours Volante'', appeared as a [[351st Bombardment Group|351st Bomb Group]] aircraft named "Yankee", coded ED-N. Filmed in the [[Czech Republic]] in 2010, the film company funding allowed the warbird to fly for an additional year before being retired to museum status. Other Flying Fortresses were rendered through [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]].<ref name="PinkLady">{{cite journal |last=Dunnell |first=Ben |title="Pink Lady's" last role |journal=Classic Aircraft |publisher=Key Publishing Ltd. |location=Stamford, Lincolnshire, UK |date=April 2012 |pages=22–23}}</ref>

B-17s appear in the 2014 graphic novel mini-series ''Castles in the Sky'', published by [[Avatar Press|Avatar]], written by [[Garth Ennis]] and illustrated by Matt Martin & Keith Burns. The story features a gunner named Leonard Wetmore who is one of the crew of the B-17 'Buffalo Gal' during the U.S. daylight bombing offensive against Germany. The story was one of Ennis' [[War Stories (comics)|War Stories]] series.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.scifipulse.net/in-review-war-stories-2/|title=In Review: War Stories #2|date=30 October 2014}}</ref>

==B-18 Bolo==
[[Douglas B-18 Bolo]]s are prominently featured in the 1943 [[RKO]] picture ''[[Bombardier (film)|Bombardier]]'', filmed at [[Kirtland Field]], New Mexico.<ref name="aerofilesFilmsB">{{cite web |url=http://www.aerofiles.com/film-b.html |title=Aviation Films – B |website=Aerofiles |access-date=8 May 2010}}</ref>

==B-24 Liberator==
[[File:DF-ST-88-06744-B-24-Gathering of Eagles convention.JPEG|thumb|[[Consolidated B-24 Liberator]]]]
A [[Consolidated B-24 Liberator]] was featured in the 1977 Telemovie ''[[Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aerovintage.com/b25news5.htm |title=2007 B-25 News |website=Aero Vintage Books |access-date=6 August 2012}}</ref>

B-24s appear in the 1944 20th Century Fox film ''[[Winged Victory (film)|Winged Victory]]'' which was directed by [[George Cukor]] and which portrayed cadets undergoing training as aircrew in the [[United States Army Air Forces|U.S. Army Air Forces]] during WW2. The AAF detached several B-24s to the production, which was filmed at Santa Ana Army Airfield in California.<ref>Carlson, Mark. ''Flying on Film: A Century of Aviation in the Movies, 1912-2012''. Bearmanor Publishing, 2012. p95-96.</ref>

The novel ''[[Face of a Hero]]'' (1950) tells the story of a B-24 crew operating from an airport in [[Apulia, Italy]], in 1944; it is based on the real experiences of its author, Louis Falstein, who had been a tail gunner on a USAAF B-24. The novel describes in detail the raids of the B-24 bombers on [[Romania]], [[Yugoslavia]], northern Italy, southern France, and Germany.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/louis-falstein/face-of-a-hero/ |title=''Face of a Hero'' By Louis Falstein |work=[[Kirkus Reviews]] |access-date=11 August 2017}}</ref>

B-24s are a central feature in the 1952 novel ''Angle of Attack'' by Joseph Landon. The story concerns navigator Irwin 'Win' Hellman, whose B-24 is attacked by enemy fighters and badly damaged over Vienna. The B-24's pilot signals to the enemy fliers that he wishes to surrender but Hellman, who is Jewish and dreads being captured alive, believes they can still escape and, with the backing of the other crew, he takes command.<ref>Harap, Louis. ''Creative Awakening: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth Century American Literature, 1900-1940s''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1987. p. 145.</ref>

B-24s appear in the 1957 novel ''The Damned Wear Wings'' by David Camerer, a work that portrays B-24s of the 473rd Bomb Group based in Italy tasked with bombing the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/david-h-camerer/the-damned-wear-wings/ |title=The Damned Wear Wings by David H. Camerer |access-date=21 February 2019|work=Kirkus Reviews}}</ref>

The 1961 novel ''Goodbye to Some'' by Gordon Forbes portrays Lt Carl Iverson, a pilot of a B-24 of VPB-400 US Navy Air Wing, a unit that flies patrols from a base in the Sulu Sea during the Pacific War in WW2.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/gordon-forbes-2/goodbye-to-some/|title=Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction|website=Kirkus Reviews}}</ref>

The story of the "[[Lady Be Good (aircraft)|Lady Be Good]]" inspired a 1970 television movie titled ''[[Sole Survivor (1970 film)|Sole Survivor]]'', with a [[North American B-25 Mitchell]] playing the B-24D role.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.apocalypselaterfilm.com/2017/02/sole-survivor-1970.html |title=Sole Survivor (1970) |date=20 February 2017 |access-date=11 August 2017}}</ref>

In the young adult novel ''[[Under a War-Torn Sky]]'', the main character Henry Forester co-pilots ''Out of the Blue'', a US B-24 Liberator serving in the Royal Air Force.<ref>{{cite book |title=Under a War-Torn Sky |isbn=0786817534 |last1=Elliott |first1=L. M. |date=28 April 2003|publisher=Hyperion Book CH }}</ref>

B-24s appear in the 1979 novel ''The White Sea Bird'' by [[David Beaty (author)|David Beaty]], a story about an RAF bomber unit whose commander becomes obsessed with hunting a German surface raider lurking in a secret base in a Norwegian Fjord and menacing Allied convoys at sea.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/david-beaty-16/the-white-sea-bird/ |title=The White Sea Bird by David Beaty |access-date=21 February 2019|work=Kirkus Reviews}}</ref>

B-24s are a major feature of the 1979 novel ''Rider on the Wind'' by [[David Westheimer]]. The novel portrays a B-24 pilot of the USAAF stationed in Palestine during the Second World War and who meets a Jewish resistance-fighter. The author himself served as a navigator in a B-24 with the 98th Bomb Group stationed in Palestine & Egypt in 1942.<ref>John, Philip A. ''The Liberator Legend: The Plane & the People''. Turner Publishing Company, 1990. p-155.</ref>

==B-25 Mitchell==
[[File:B-25 Mitchell 'Yankee Warrior' at Ohio's Wood County Airport.jpg|thumb|[[North American B-25 Mitchell]]]]

The [[North American B-25 Mitchell]] had feature roles in the films ''[[Thirty Seconds over Tokyo]]'' (1944) (pilot [[Ted W. Lawson|Ted Lawson]]'s account of the [[Doolittle Raid]]<ref name="Edward_1985">{{cite book |last=Dolan |first=Edward F. |title=Hollywood Goes to War |url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodgoestow0000dola |url-access=registration |location=London, UK |publisher=Bison Books |year=1985 |isbn=978-0-86124-229-0}}</ref>), ''[[Hanover Street (film)|Hanover Street]]'' (1979) based on a fictional B-25 unit stationed in England,<ref name="Edward_1985"/> and ''[[Forever Young (1992 film)|Forever Young]]'' (1992), following a B-25 test pilot's story both in the past and present.<ref>{{cite book |last=Clarkson |first=Wensley |title=Mel Gibson: Man on a Mission |year=2004 |location=London, UK |publisher=Blake Publishing |isbn=978-1-85782-537-4}}</ref>

A B-25 features in the 1965 World War II film ''[[In Harm's Way]]'' directed by [[Otto Preminger]] and starring [[John Wayne]] and [[Kirk Douglas]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-25/44-31504.html |title=B-25J-30/32-NC (TB-25N) Mitchell Serial Number 44-31504 |website=Pacific Wrecks |access-date=29 October 2012}}</ref>

''[[Sole Survivor (1970 film)|The Sole Survivor]]'', a 1970 telemovie, was also based loosely on the "Lady Be Good", and also featured a B-25 in the Liberator role. It first aired 9 January 1970.<ref name="aerofilesFilmsS">{{cite web |url=http://www.aerofiles.com/film-s.html |title=Aviation Films – S |website=Aerofiles |access-date=8 May 2010}}</ref>

The B-25 is featured in the 1970 [[Mike Nichols]] film ''[[Catch-22 (film)|Catch-22]]'', which had 17 [[B-25 Mitchell aircraft in Catch-22|film unit]] B-25s in flying condition.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Farmer |first=James H. |title=The Catch-22 Air Force |journal=Air Classics |volume=8 |number=14 |date=December 1972}}</ref> Like the ''[[Battle of Britain (film)|Battle of Britain]]''{{'}}s resurrection and ultimate preservation of German and British aviation combatants, the ''Catch-22'' air force helped form a nucleus of the nascent [[warbird]]s movement. Fifteen of the 18 bombers used in the film still remain intact, including one on display at the [[Smithsonian Institution]]'s [[National Air and Space Museum]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=nasm_A19860003000 |title=North American B-25J-20NC (TB-25N) Mitchell Carol Jean |website=[[National Air and Space Museum]] |access-date=28 January 2012}}</ref>

B-25s appear in the 1976 novel ''Whip'' by [[Martin Caidin]], which portrays a B-25 unit based in Australia and commanded by Captain 'Whip' Russell and they are employed in low-level bombing missions against Japanese convoys carrying reinforcements to Guadalcanal and Rabaul in 1942.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/07/archives/new-novel-whip.html|title=New & Novel|first=Martin|last=Levin|date=7 March 1976|access-date=27 May 2019|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/martin-caidin-8/the-whip-2/|title=The Whip by Martin Caidin |access-date=27 May 2019|work=Kirkus Reviews}}</ref>

The B-25 was the focus of the second half of the 2001 film ''[[Pearl Harbor (film)|Pearl Harbor]]'', although critics complained that the bomber and its role were being depicted inaccurately.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.forbes.com/2001/05/25/0525pearlharbor.html |title=Pearl Harbor: How Real Is It? |last=Snow |first=Richard |date=25 May 2001 |journal=[[Forbes]] |access-date=19 January 2010}}</ref>

The bulk of the action in [[Craig Johnson (author)|Craig Johnson]]'s 2013 novel ''Spirit of Steamboat'' takes place on an old Mitchell VB-25J nicknamed "Steamboat", as it is flown through a snowstorm on a rescue mission over the [[Great Plains]].<ref>{{Cite web |author= |url=https://lesasbookcritiques.com/spirit-of-steamboat-by-craig-johnson/ |title=Spirit of Steamboat by Craig Johnson |date=13 December 2020 |access-date=}}</ref>

A B-25 is used in the 2011 film ''[[Sucker Punch (2011 film)|Sucker Punch]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1660641/sucker-punch-vanessa-hudgens/ |title='Sucker Punch' Stars Take A Journey 'Into Zack Snyder's Mind' |first=Kara |last=Warner |date=24 March 2011 |website=MTV.com |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

B-25s appear in the 2019 [[Hulu]] mini-series ''[[Catch-22 (miniseries)|Catch-22]]'' directed by [[George Clooney]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/in-hulus-catch-22-a-fine-reminder-that-the-greatest-generation-also-had-its-cynics/2019/05/16/aa88ee74-7743-11e9-b7ae-390de4259661_story.html|title=Review &#124; In Hulu's 'Catch-22,' a fine reminder that the Greatest Generation also had its cynics|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> Two vintage B-25s were used in the production<ref>{{cite web|url=http://warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/catch-22-remake-warbirds-over-sardinia.html|title=Catch-22 Remake, Warbirds Over Sardinia|last=WarbirdsNews|date=28 June 2018|website=warbirdsnews.com|access-date=27 May 2019}}</ref> and other B-25s were re-created with CGI.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.dneg.com/show/catch22/|title= Catch-22 - The series adaptation of the classic Joseph Heller novel|access-date= 6 August 2019|author=DNEG |work= dneg.com|year=2019|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190527022036/https://www.dneg.com/show/catch22/|archive-date= 27 May 2019}}</ref>

==B-29 Superfortress==
[[File:Boeing B-29 Superfortress (19926000422).jpg|thumb|right|[[Boeing B-29 Superfortress]]]]

The [[Boeing B-29 Superfortress]] has played an important role in several Hollywood films, particularly the ''[[Enola Gay]]'', which dropped the first atomic bomb. The Enola Gay was depicted in ''[[Above and Beyond (1952 film)|Above and Beyond]]'' and ''[[The Beginning or the End]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/30/movies/film-hiroshima-films-always-a-political-fallout.html |title=Hiroshima Films: Always a Political Fallout |last1=Lifton |first1=Robert |last2=Mitchell |first2=Greg |date=30 July 1995 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=19 January 2010}}</ref>

The first Hollywood retelling of the [[509th Composite Group]]'s preparation for the atomic missions was ''Above and Beyond'', released by [[MGM]] in 1953, with [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]] portraying Col. [[Paul Tibbetts]], and [[Jim Backus]] as Gen. [[Curtis LeMay]]. Filmed at [[Davis-Monthan Air Force Base]].<ref name="AerofilesFilmsA">{{cite web |url=http://www.aerofiles.com/film-a.html |title=Aviation Films – A |website=Aerofiles |access-date=8 May 2010}}</ref>

The B-29 also played the titular role in the 1980 Disney film ''[[The Last Flight of Noah's Ark]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dvdizzy.com/lastflight.html |title=The Last Flight of Noah's Ark – Disney DVD Review |website=Ultimate Disney |date=August 2004 |access-date=22 August 2011}}</ref>

Film makers also used the only flight-worthy B-29 (''[[FIFI (aircraft)|FIFI]]'') at the time in 1983 in the film ''[[The Right Stuff (film)|The Right Stuff]]'' to recreate the launch of the Bell X-1 for the first supersonic flight.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4rcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6888,7655936&dq=movie+usaf&hl=en |title=Ingredients of 'The Right Stuff' |last=Wilford |first=John |date=23 October 1983 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=6 February 2010}}{{dead link |date=April 2012}}</ref>

==B-36 Peacemaker==
The [[Convair B-36]] featured prominently in Paramount's 1955 film ''[[Strategic Air Command (film)|Strategic Air Command]]'' starring [[James Stewart]], who plays a World War II bomber pilot and member of the [[Air Force Reserve]] and is forced to crash land in the Arctic. The film features many good aerial shots of B-36s and was primarily filmed at [[Carswell AFB]], Texas, and [[MacDill AFB]] in [[Tampa, Florida]], and [[Al Lang Field]] in nearby [[St. Petersburg, Florida]]. One particularly difficult shot was that of Stewart's character, a baseball player, standing on the baseball field at Al Lang Field while a B-36 flies overhead and casts a shadow over him, foreshadowing his imminent recall to active service.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=v_UNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3905,4173501&dq=movie+usaf&hl=en |title=USAF, Paramount combine to shoot difficult scene |date=24 March 1954 |newspaper=St. Petersburg Times |access-date=6 February 2010}}{{Dead link|date=June 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>

==B-47 Stratojet==
[[File:NNSA-NSO-990.jpg|thumb|[[B-47 Stratojet]]]]

The [[Boeing B-47 Stratojet]] gets a secondary role in Paramount's 1955 film ''[[Strategic Air Command (film)|Strategic Air Command]]'' (SAC), starring James Stewart, as the new jet that is nothing like the old Convair B-36 he is used to. The film features good aerial footage of both the B-47 and the B-36. The majority of B-47 scenes were filmed at [[MacDill Air Force Base]], Florida, using aircraft from the [[306th Bombardment Wing]].<ref name=Natola>{{Cite book |editor-first=Mark |editor-last=Natola |title=Boeing B-47 Stratojet |publisher=Schiffer Publishing Ltd. |year=2002 |isbn=0764316702 |pages=162}}</ref>

Ejection seat testing of B-47s performed at [[Eglin AFB]], Florida, in 1953 and 1954 as part of [[aeromedical]] research was recreated in the 1955 [[20th Century Fox]] film ''[[On the Threshold of Space]]'' starring [[Guy Madison]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Jenkins |first=Claude F. |title='On the Threshold of Space': Crew Will Begin Shooting Movie Film in Area Today |newspaper=[[Playground News]] |location=Fort Walton Beach, Florida |date=15 September 1955 |volume=9 |number=85 |page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Movie Crew Shoots Scenes in the Area |newspaper=Playground News |location=Fort Walton Beach, Florida |date=22 September 1955 |volume=9 |number=86 |page=1}}</ref> and in a 1957 [[Pine-Thomas Productions]] drama ''[[Bailout at 43,000]]''.<ref name="bailout_tcm">[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/68009/Bailout-at-43-000/ "Bailout at 43,000 (1957) - Overview"]. Turner Classic Movies database, retrieved 11 January 2017</ref>

The 1957 [[Warner Brothers]] melodrama film ''[[Bombers B-52]]'' features [[Castle Air Force Base]], proudly sporting its slogan "Home of the B-47", and its transition from the Stratojet to the new B-52.<ref name="b_aerofiles">[http://www.aerofiles.com/film-b.html "Aviation Films - B"], Aerofiles.com, retrieved 11 January 2017</ref><ref name="b52_tcm">[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/69323/Bombers-B-52/ "Bombers B-52"], {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306030313/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/69323/Bombers-B-52/ |date=6 March 2016}} Turner Classic Movies database, retrieved 11 January 2017</ref><ref name="b52_trailer">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O4LpY0gG5c Bombers B-52 movie trailer] on YouTube.com, retrieved 11 January 2017</ref>

==B-52 Stratofortress==
[[File:Usaf.Boeing B-52.jpg|thumb|right|[[Boeing B-52 Stratofortress]]]]

The 1957 film ''[[Bombers B-52]]'' focused on the introduction of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber by the U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) in the 1950s, using extensive footage of early model B-52s.<ref>[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/69323/bombers-b-52/#synopsis Bombers B-52 film synopsis]. Turner Classic Movies web site (tcm.com). Retrieved 9 December 2023.</ref>

The 1963 film ''[[A Gathering of Eagles]]'' focuses on the stresses of a [[Boeing B-52 Stratofortress|B-52]] wing commander at the height of the Cold War. Some excellent visuals of the B-52 including a complex [[inflight refueling]] operation which nearly ends in disaster.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,870298,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222074336/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,870298,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 December 2008 |title=Sick SAC |date=26 July 1963 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=15 February 2010 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

The B-52 was also a key part of [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s 1964 black comedy film ''[[Dr. Strangelove|Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/fall2004/line_items/strangelove.php |title=Checkup with Dr. Strangelove |work=[[Filmmaker (magazine)|Filmmaker]] |last=Southern |first=Terry |author-link=Terry Southern |year=2009 |access-date=11 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201221121/http://filmmakermagazine.com/fall2004/line_items/strangelove.php |archive-date=1 February 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>

A B-52 was a focal point of the 1983 novel ''[[Trinity's Child]]'', by [[William Prochnau]], and the 1990 telemovie adaptation, ''[[By Dawn's Early Light]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,317524,00.html |title=By Dawn's Early Light |last=Tucker |first=Ken |date=8 June 1990 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |issue=17 |access-date=11 January 2010 |archive-date=20 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091220055635/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,317524,00.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Bell 47==
[[File:Bell 47 (centered).jpg|thumb|right|[[Bell 47]]]]

The 1950s syndicated American television series ''[[Whirlybirds]]'', produced by [[Desilu Studios]], starred a pair of [[Bell 47]] helicopters. The association with ''Whirlybirds'' continues to be used to promote helicopters and the Bell 47 in particular.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newwhirlybirds.com/NEW%20WHIRLYBIRDS%20HEADLINES.html |title=The New Whirlybirds |last1=Rhodes |first1=Joey |last2=Rodriguez |first2=Danny |year=2003 |access-date=17 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416010816/http://www.newwhirlybirds.com/NEW%20WHIRLYBIRDS%20HEADLINES.html |archive-date=16 April 2009}}</ref> A Bell 47 was also one of the 'stars' of the Australian television series ''[[Skippy the Bush Kangaroo]]''.<ref name="ClassicOz">{{cite web |url=http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/ChopperSquad.htm |title=Chopper Squad |last=Storey |first=Don |website=Classic Australian TV |year=2008 |access-date=17 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100125193008/http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/ChopperSquad.htm |archive-date=25 January 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In the opening scenes of [[Federico Fellini]]'s 1960 comedy-drama film ''[[La Dolce Vita]]'' a Bell 47 transports a statue of Christ across the city of Rome. A second Bell 47 in pursuit contains the reporter Marcello Rubini ([[Marcello Mastroianni]]) and his sidekick Papparazo.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O99vDQAAQBAJ&q=la+dolce+vita+helicopter+bell+47 |title=Rome: Cities in World History |first=Andrew |last=Leach |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |year=2016 |isbn=9781509514991 |access-date=23 January 2020}}</ref>

A Bell 47J equipped with floats was used in the 1965 [[James Bond]] film ''[[Thunderball (film)|Thunderball]]''. The helicopter lands on the water as Bond searches for an [[Avro Vulcan]] bomber that has gone missing.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/t.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007193821/http://www.rotaryaction.com/t.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-10-07 |title=page T - flight logs, helicopter action movie and TV reviews for Rotary Action at rotaryaction.com|date=7 October 2014 |access-date=2019-04-13}}</ref>

A Bell 47G3B-1 was used as the "[[Batcopter]]" in the 1966 ''[[Batman (1966 film)|Batman]]'' film. This airframe had previously appeared in ''[[Lassie Come Home]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nationalhelicopter.com/our-history/ |title=Our History |website=National Helicopter Service |year=2016 |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-date=6 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806162118/https://www.nationalhelicopter.com/our-history/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>

A Bell 47 depicted a supposed German helicopter in the 1968 action film ''[[Where Eagles Dare]]''. Although experimental German helicopter types did exist in this time period, the [[Focke-Achgelis Fa 223]] was a larger, twin-rotor machine, which was used on only a limited basis.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.helis.com/timeline/bell.php |title=Bell Helicopters |website=Helicopter History Site |year=2016 |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.modelaircraft.org/files/YoungArthurM.pdf |title=Biography of Arthur Middleton Young |year=2010 |website=Academy of Model Aeronautics |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160721230908/https://www.modelaircraft.org/files/YoungArthurM.pdf |archive-date=21 July 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Bell 47, in its military configuration as a [[H-13 Sioux]] regularly appeared in the ''[[M*A*S*H (film)|M*A*S*H]]'' film (1970) and [[M*A*S*H (TV series)|television series]] (1972-1983).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.californiasciencecenter.org/Exhibits/AirAndSpace/AirAndAircraft/Bell47G5/Bell47G5.php |title=Air and Aircraft: Bell 47 |website=California Science Center |access-date=17 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112094248/http://www.californiasciencecenter.org/Exhibits/AirAndSpace/AirAndAircraft/Bell47G5/Bell47G5.php |archive-date=12 November 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the 1979 [[Norman Jewison]] film ''[[...And Justice for All (film)|...And Justice For All]]'', the main characters go for a ride in a Bell 47G-2 that ends up ditching in [[Baltimore]]'s [[Inner Harbor]] when it runs out of fuel.<ref name="RotaryActionA">{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/a.html |title=Films – A |website=Rotary Action |access-date=31 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140923175050/http://www.rotaryaction.com/a.html |archive-date=23 September 2014}}</ref>

==Bell 206==
''[[Chopper Squad]]'' was a 1970s Australian television series about a [[Bell 206|Bell 206 JetRanger]] used for rescue work in Sydney. The helicopter used was an actual rescue helicopter operated by the [[Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter Service]].<ref name="ClassicOz"/>

A Bell 206B was one of the helicopters that attacks the oil rig control center of [[Ernst Stavro Blofeld]] in the climactic scenes of the 1971 [[James Bond]] film ''[[Diamonds Are Forever (film)|Diamonds Are Forever]]''.<ref name="RotaryActionD">{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/d.html |title=Films – D |website=Rotary Action |year=2010 |access-date=19 May 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923175651/http://www.rotaryaction.com/d.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref> The Jet Ranger also appeared in the 1977 Bond film ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me (film)|The Spy Who Loved Me]]''<ref name="RotaryActionS">{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/s.html |title=Films – S |website=Rotary Action |year=2010 |access-date=13 August 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923172605/http://www.rotaryaction.com/s.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref>

In the 1983 film ''[[Blue Thunder]]'', a Jet Ranger is portrayed as a [[Los Angeles Police Department|LAPD]] helicopter flying for the [[LAPD Air Support Division|Astro division]].<ref name="BlueThunder"/> Also appears in the 1991 film ''[[Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]'', as another LAPD helicopter, which is stolen by the [[T-1000]] Terminator and flown under an expressway to pursue [[John Connor]], [[Sarah Connor (Terminator)|Sarah Connor]] and the [[Terminator (character)|T-800]] Terminator protecting them.<ref name="RotaryActionT">{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/t.html |title=Films – T |website=Rotary Action |year=2011 |access-date=20 September 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923181424/http://www.rotaryaction.com/t.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref>

==Bell 222==
A [[Bell 222]]A was featured in the telemovie ''Airwolf'', which starred [[Jan-Michael Vincent]] and [[Ernest Borgnine]]. Within the year, the film was made into a [[Airwolf|TV series]] which aired from 1984 to 1986.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/airwolf.html |title=Airwolf |website=Rotary Action |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923173231/http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/airwolf.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref>

In the 1991 film ''[[Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man]]'', a Bell 222UT is used to eliminate the antagonists in a high rise building near downtown Los Angeles.<ref name="RotaryActionH">{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/h.html |title=Films – H |website=Rotary Action |year=2010 |access-date=19 May 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923180408/http://www.rotaryaction.com/h.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref>

==Bell AH-1 Cobra==
In the 1990 film ''[[Fire Birds]]'', a [[Bell AH-1 Cobra]] of the [[United States Army]] emerges in the opening sequence, when it is ambushed by a drug runner's Scorpion helicopter portrayed by a [[McDonnell Douglas MD 500 Defender]].<ref name="RotaryActionWings"/>

A pair of AH-1s appear in [[Simon West]]'s 1997 film ''[[Con Air]]''. The helicopters are used in an attempt to bring down a hijacked [[Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System]] (JPATS) aircraft.<ref name="RotaryActionC">{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/c.html |title=Films – C |website=Rotary Action |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923184727/http://www.rotaryaction.com/c.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref>

In [[J. J. Abrams]]'s 2006 film ''[[Mission: Impossible III]]'', the [[Impossible Missions Force]] (IMF) team use a [[Bell 204/205|Bell 204]] to escape after rescuing one of their team members. They must evade an AH-1 Cobra, which pursues them through a [[wind farm]], firing [[Infrared homing|heat seeking rockets]] at them.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/misimpos.html |title=Mission Impossible III |website=Rotary Action |access-date=14 May 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140517120451/http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/misimpos.html |archive-date =17 May 2014}}</ref>

==Bell UH-1 Iroquois==
[[File:UH1 Huey - Fly Navy 2017 (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Bell UH-1 Iroquois]]]]

The [[Bell UH-1 Iroquois]] (commonly called the [[Bell Huey family|Huey]]) was the most common helicopter during the [[Vietnam War]], as an aircraft used to insert and remove troops from the field, transport casualties for medical treatment and as a gunship.<ref>[http://www.vietnamhelicopters.org/uh-1h-huey/ UH-1 Iroquois "Huey" Helicopter] ''Vietnam Helicopters Museum'' Retrieved 14 March 2017</ref> As such, it has appeared in many works of fiction related to the war.

The UH-1 was an important part of the 1968 film ''[[The Green Berets (film)|The Green Berets]]''. The production company paid $18,623.64 for the material, the eighty-five hours of flying time by UH-1 helicopters, and thirty-eight hundred man-days for military personnel taken away from their regular duties.<ref>{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Julian |title=Looking Away: Hollywood and Vietnam |edition=1st |year=1975 |publisher=Scribner |location=New York |isbn=978-0-684-13954-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/lookingawayholly00smit|url-access=registration}}</ref>

Two UH-1H Hueys make up part of the attack package on [[Ernst Stavro Blofeld]]'s oil rig command center at the climax of the 1971 [[James Bond]] film ''[[Diamonds Are Forever (film)|Diamonds Are Forever]]''.<ref name="RotaryActionD"/>

The UH-1 was in [[Francis Ford Coppola]]'s 1979 film ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''. Several Hueys were rented from the Philippine Air Force.<ref name="HE11">{{cite web |url=http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Rotary/Huey/HE11.htm |title=Bell UH-1 "Huey" |website=US Centennial of Flight Commission |access-date=2 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527204940/http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Rotary/Huey/HE11.htm |archive-date=27 May 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The distinct and iconic sound of the helicopters was featured prominently in the film's [[sound design]] of the soundtrack.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Macaulay |first1=Scott |title=The Sound of Helicopters in Apocalypse Now |url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/88485-the-sound-of-helicopters-in-apocalypse-now/ |website=Filmmaker |access-date=22 April 2019 |date=30 November 2014}}</ref>

UH-1s were prominently featured in [[Oliver Stone]]'s 1986 film ''[[Platoon (film)|Platoon]]''.<ref name="HE11" />

The 1990 film ''[[Air America (film)|Air America]]'', about the [[CIA]]'s proprietary airline during the war in Southeast Asia, featured the ubiquitous Huey helicopter.<ref name="AerofilesFilmsA"/>

A Bell 205 is used as a [[Mountain rescue|mountain rescue helicopter]] in the 1993 film ''[[Cliffhanger (film)|Cliffhanger]]''. The aircraft is used to locate a missing jet and then employed to find stolen money. Towards the film's end the helicopter is dangling upside down against a cliff, where the hero ([[Sylvester Stallone]]) and villain ([[John Lithgow]]) brawl on the belly of the aircraft.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/cliffhang.html |title=Cliffhanger |website=Rotary Action |access-date=14 May 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150419013412/http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/cliffhang.html |archive-date =19 April 2015}}</ref>

The UH-1 is a central part of the 2002 Vietnam war film ''[[We Were Soldiers]]''. The helicopter is shown ferrying troops into the [[Battle of Ia Drang|Ia Drang]] valley as part of the then-new concept of [[air cavalry]]. The film particularly focused on the flights of Major [[Bruce Crandall]], who was later awarded the [[Medal of Honor]] for his actions while piloting his UH-1 during the battle depicted in the film.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0LIY/is_6_89/ai_n27578784/ |title=Hollywood gets Vietnam right this time |last=Galloway |first=Joseph |author-link=Joseph L. Galloway |date=February 2002 |website=[[VFW Magazine]] |access-date=17 January 2010}}{{dead link|date=June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/26/crandall.medal.of.honor/ |title=Vietnam hero on film gets highest honor for valor |last=Shaughnessy |first=Larry |date=27 February 2007 |website=[[CNN]] |access-date=17 January 2010}}</ref> Four of the UH-1s used were provided by the [[Georgia Army National Guard]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dod.state.ga.us/firstfriday/march01stfriday.html |title=Georgia National Guard is in the Movies |date=2 March 2001 |website=[[Georgia Department of Defense]] |access-date=17 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721151338/http://www.dod.state.ga.us/firstfriday/march01stfriday.html |archive-date=21 July 2011}}</ref>

The slaying of Israeli athletes by [[Black September (group)|Black September]] terrorists and the destruction of a ''[[Bundesgrenzschutz]]'' Bell/Dornier UH-1D<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=75326 |title=ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 75326 |website=Aviation Safety Network |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref> during the 1972 Summer Olympics was depicted in the 2005 [[Steven Spielberg]] film ''[[Munich (2005 film)|Munich]]''.<ref name="RotaryActionM">{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/m.html |title=Films – M |website=Rotary Action |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160310172708/http://www.rotaryaction.com/m.html |archive-date =10 March 2016}}</ref>

UH-1 helicopters are seen as the primary transport aircraft in the 2017 film ''[[Kong: Skull Island]]'', and are attacked by Kong after launching seismic bombs in an attempt to map the Island's caves.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Art and Making of Kong: Skull Island|last=Ward|first=Simon|publisher=Titan Books|year=2017|isbn=978-1785651519}}</ref>

==Bell X-1==
[[File:Bell X-1 color.jpg|thumb|[[Bell X-1]]]]

The [[Bell X-1]] was depicted early in the film ''[[The Right Stuff (film)|The Right Stuff]]''. The film showed the historic flight of the X-1 becoming the first aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight under its own propulsion. This achievement helped usher in the US space program that was the subject of the rest of the film.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/16/movies/the-right-stuff-from-space-to-the-screen.html?&pagewanted=all |title='The Right Stuff': From Space to the Screen |last=Wilford |first=John Noble |date=16 October 1983 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=19 January 2010}}</ref> A mock-up built for the film is now displayed at the [[Planes of Fame]] Museum, Chino, California.<ref name="Xplanes">{{cite web |url=http://www.ais.org/~schnars/aero/x-planes.htm |title=X-Planes -- from X-1 to X-34 |website=ais.org |access-date=13 January 2016}}</ref>

==Bell X-2==
A [[Bell X-2]] mock-up was built for the pilot-film of the TV series ''[[Quantum Leap (TV series)|Quantum Leap]]''. It is now on display at the [[Planes of Fame]] Museum, Chino, California.<ref name="Xplanes"/>

==Boeing 247==
The 1936 movie ''[[Without Orders]]'' centers on the emergency landing of a [[Boeing 247]] by the stewardess.<ref name="vanderLindenBoeing247">{{cite book |last=van der Linden |first=F. Robert |title=The Boeing 247: The First Modern Airliner |page=121 |publisher=University of Washington Press |location=Seattle and London |date=1991 |isbn=0-295-97094-4}}</ref>

The 1936 movie ''[[13 Hours by Air]]'' takes place largely aboard a transcontinental Boeing 247 flight and includes significant historically interesting second-unit footage of actual terminal facilities on [[United Airlines|United Air Lines's]] then-new transcontinental route network.<ref name="vanderLindenBoeing247"/>

==Boeing 707==
The 1961 episode "[[The Odyssey of Flight 33]]" of television series ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' takes place on a [[Boeing 707]] with the aircraft traveling through various periods of history.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/the-odyssey-of-flight-33-part-3/ |title=Twilight Zone Part 3 |website=ForbiddenKnowledgeTV |last=Bruce |first=Alexandra |date=24 March 2014 |access-date=27 August 2017}}</ref>

A Boeing 707-349C leased from [[Flying Tiger Line]] portrayed two aircraft in the 1970 film ''[[Airport (1970 film)|Airport]]'', based on the 1968 [[Arthur Hailey]] [[Airport (novel)|novel of the same name]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19890321-0 |title=Accident description – Boeing 707-349C |website=Aviation Safety Network |date=March 1989 |access-date=8 May 2010}}</ref>

The Boeing 707 is featured as the titular aircraft in ''[[Airplane!]]'', a 1980 disaster-parody film by [[Jon Davison (film producer)|Jon Davison]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fast-rewind.com/making_airplan.htm |title=Making Of...Airplane Behind The Scenes |access-date=27 August 2017}}</ref>

In 2011, the American television series ''[[Pan Am (TV Series)|Pan Am]]'' took place in the early and mid-1960s and featured interior sets and exterior CGI representations of the 707 on the ground and in flight; it was Pan Am's flagship airliner during that time. Additional footage of John Travolta's Boeing 707 in Pan Am livery has also been used in the TV series.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/10/24/13955/497/travel/%27Pan+Am%27+Is+Taking+Off+In+John+Travolta%27s+Plane+This+Week |title='Pan Am' Will Take Off in John Travolta's Boeing 707 This Week |publisher=Jaunted |access-date=29 November 2011}}</ref>

In [[Alistair Maclean]]'s ''[[Air Force One Is Down]]'' (1983), a master criminal plans to steal Air Force One (then a 707) to humiliate President Warren G. Wheeler, and blows up a cargo-carrier 707 painted like it to effect the plan.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

==Boeing 727==
[[Industrial Light and Magic]] constructed a large-scale model of a [[Boeing 727]] of fibreglass and aluminum for use in the 1990 [[action film]] ''[[Die Hard 2]]''.{{sfnp|Cotta Vaz|Duignan|1996|p=149}}

The 1996 film ''[[Eraser (film)|Eraser]]'' includes an elaborate action sequence involving a parachute jump from a crippled Boeing 727.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=1755 |title=Eraser |last=Berardinelli |first=James |year=2012 |website=Reelviews |access-date=26 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906021347/http://www.reelviews.net/reelviews/eraser |archive-date=6 September 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The 1998 film ''[[U.S. Marshals (film)|U.S. Marshals]]'' depicts the crash of a 727 from the [[Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System]] (JPATS).<ref>{{cite book |last=Hay |first=Jerry M. |title=Ohio River Guidebook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-CWFN4uL8L8C&pg=PA166 |year=2008 |publisher=Inland Waterways Books |isbn=978-1-60585-217-1 |page=166}}</ref>

==Boeing 737==
In the 2008 TV series ''[[Breaking Bad]]'', the mid-air crash between two [[Boeing 737]] over [[Albuquerque, New Mexico|Albuquerque]], referred as the Wayfarer 515 disaster, takes an important part in the plot. Because of it, this model is featured and mentioned several times during the second season. Also, the episode "[[Seven Thirty-Seven]]" is named for the aircraft; it is the first of several episode titles that collectively foreshadow the Wayfarer 515 disaster. When placed together, they read "Seven Thirty-Seven Down Over ABQ".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/tvclub/breaking-bad-seven-thirty-seven-24816 |title=Breaking Bad: "Seven Thirty-Seven" |last=Bowman |first=Donna |date=8 March 2009 |publisher=A.V. Club |access-date=25 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/tvclub/breaking-bad-abq-28609 |title= Breaking Bad: "ABQ" |last=Bowman |first=Donna |date=31 May 2009 |publisher=A.V. Club |access-date=30 May 2015}}</ref>

==Boeing 747==
[[File:Air Force One over Mt. Rushmore.jpg|thumb|right|[[Boeing VC-25]] Air Force One]]

A redressed [[Boeing 747]] of [[American Airlines]] was featured extensively in the 1974 film ''[[Airport 1975]]'',<ref>{{cite web |last=Ortega |first=Sergio |url=http://airodyssey.net/2005/01/01/movie-arpt75/ |title=Airport 1975 (Movie review) |website=Airodyssey.net |date=1 January 2005}}</ref> and the sequel ''[[Airport 77]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.moviepooper.com/6/2606airport77.html |title=Airport 77 (1977) |website=Moviepooper.com |access-date=8 September 2012}}</ref>

The 1983 [[TBS Television (Japan)|TBS]] drama series ''{{interlanguage link|スチュワーデス物語|ja}} (Stewardess Monogatari - A Stewardess' Tale)'' focuses on 19 year old Chiaki Matsumoto (played by [[Chiemi Hori]]) and her path to become a [[Japan Airlines]] flight attendant. The series was filmed in cooperation with JAL, which allowed filming at their actual base at [[Narita International Airport]]. Many shots are filmed of 747 revenue flights at Narita, and a few episodes were produced inside the maintenance hangar as Chiaki and her classmates perform various training classes and exercises to learn about the aircraft.<ref>{{Cite web|last=TBS|title=スチュワーデス物語（堀ちえみ出演）｜ドラマ・時代劇｜TBS CS［TBSチャンネル］|url=http://www.tbs.co.jp/tbs-ch/item/d0289/|access-date=2021-11-27|website=TBS CS［TBSチャンネル］|language=ja}}</ref>

In the 1990 action film ''[[Die Hard 2]]'', a 747 that has been hijacked by terrorists is destroyed by [[John McClane]]. Three 23-foot models were fabricated by [[Industrial Light and Magic]] with one destroyed during filming done at a remote airstrip in the [[Mojave Desert]] of California. The effects were matched to a real 747 filmed taxiing at [[Alpena, Michigan]]. The cost of the special effects pushed the film's production costs towards the then-record of $70 million.{{sfnp|Cotta Vaz|Duignan|1996|pp=148–151}}

A 747-212B, rented from [[Kalitta Air]], was the title subject of the 1997 film ''[[Air Force One (film)|Air Force One]]'', portraying the real 747-200-based [[Boeing VC-25|VC-25]] that transports the US president.<ref name="Larson">{{cite web |url=http://www.avweb.com/news/reviews/182370-1.html |title=The Making of Air Force One |last=Larson |first=Gary |date=1 November 1997 |website=[[Air & Space/Smithsonian]] |access-date=11 January 2010}}</ref><ref name="Times-AFO">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/25/movies/just-a-little-turbulence-mr-president.html |title=Just a Little Turbulence, Mr. President |last=Maslin |first=Janet |date=25 July 1997 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=16 January 2010}}</ref>

The 747 was also prominent in the novel and the 2002 film ''[[The Sum of All Fears (film)|The Sum of All Fears]]'' as the [[Boeing E-4|National Airborne Operations Center]] during a nuclear showdown with Russia.<ref name="Seelye">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/10/us/when-hollywood-s-big-guns-come-right-from-the-source.html|title=When Hollywood's Big Guns Come Right From the Source|last=Seelye|first=Katharine|date=10 June 2002|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=17 January 2010}}</ref>

A 747 in-flight is also the setting for the 2006 horror-thriller film ''[[Snakes on a Plane]]'' in which a large number of venomous snakes wriggle loose on the large jet.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://movies.sky.com/snakes-on-a-plane/review |title=Snakes on a Plane |last=Evans |first=Tim |date=September 2011 |website=BSkyB |access-date=1 September 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2002972643_snakes05.html |title=Snakes on a Plane |last=Gutierrez |first=Lisa |date=May 2006 |newspaper=[[The Seattle Times]]|access-date=14 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022002824/http://seattletimes.com/html/living/2002972643_snakes05.html |archive-date=22 October 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/2006/08/19/2006-08-19_hiss-terical_stuff_.html |title=Hiss-terical Stuff! |last=Matthews |first=Jack |date=August 2006 |newspaper=New York Daily News |access-date=2 September 2011}}{{dead link|date=April 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

An [[All Nippon Airways]] [[Boeing 747-400]] was featured in the 2008 Japanese movie ''[[Happy Flight]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2008/11/14/films/film-reviews/happy-flight/ |title='Happy Flight': Airplane flick tells only half the story|last=Schilling|first=Mark |website=[[The Japan Times]] |date=14 November 2008 |access-date=28 February 2017}}</ref>

==Boeing 757==
[[File:N591UA.jpg|thumb|The Boeing 757 that served as United Airlines Flight 93, days before its hijacking.]]
A [[Boeing 757]] is the setting of the 2006 film ''[[United 93 (film)|United 93]]'', that is based on the events on board [[United Airlines Flight 93]] which was hijacked during the [[September 11 attacks]] in 2001.<ref>Heath, Iver (January 1, 2006). [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/01/movies/01timm.html "Four Years On, a Cabin's-Eye View of 9/11"]. ''The New York Times''.</ref>

==Boeing 767==
An Air New Zealand [[Boeing 767|Boeing 767-200]] was featured in the 1993 TV movie ''[[Mercy Mission: the Rescue of Flight 771]]'', whereby its crew lead a lost Cessna 188 to a safe landing place. The movie is based on the [[Cessna 188 Pacific rescue]] that took place in 1978. The plane in the actual rescue was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 and the Boeing 767 was not introduced into Air New Zealand's fleet until 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://airodyssey.net/1999/03/01/movie-flt771/|title=Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 (Movie review)|last=Ortega|first=Sergio|date=1 March 1999|website=AirOdyssey.net|access-date=29 July 2017}}</ref>

The Boeing 767 is the setting of the 2014 action film ''[[Non-Stop (film)|Non-Stop]]'' in which a killer onboard is executing the aircraft's passengers and crew.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/film/non-stop-film-review-9159556.html|title=Non-Stop - film review|date=28 February 2014|website=standard.co.uk|access-date=2 April 2020}}</ref>

==Boeing 777==
A modified [[Boeing 777]] was used as the [[United States Air Force]] mothership for an experimental [[NASA]] [[spaceplane]] in the 2006 film ''[[Superman Returns]]''.<ref name="SupermanReturns">{{cite book |last=Wallace |first=Daniel |title=The Art of Superman Returns |year=2006 |publisher=[[Chronicle Books]] |location=San Francisco |isbn=0-8118-5344-6 |pages=33, 36}}</ref>

==Boeing-Stearman Model 75==
In 1950, [[Paul Mantz]] tore the wings off a [[Boeing-Stearman Model 75|Boeing PT-13D (Model 75) Stearman]] by flying between two oaks for the 1950 film ''[[When Willie Comes Marching Home]]''.<ref>Editors, ''Air Classics'', Challenge Publications, Canoga Park, California, July 1972, Volume 8, Number 8, p. 39.</ref> A crop-dusting Stearman, N6340, was featured early in the 1963 [[Elvis Presley]] film ''[[It Happened at the World's Fair]]''.<ref>Beck, Simon D., ''The Aircraft-Spotter's Film and Television Companion'', p. 326. McFarland & Company, Inc., Jeffferson, North Carolina, 2016, {{ISBN|978-1-4766-6349-4}}.</ref>

A Boeing Stearman appears in the climactic scene of the Disney Sci-Fi film ''[[The Cat from Outer Space]]'' (1978). The scene involves a mid-air transfer of characters between the Stearman and a Gazelle helicopter. The Stearman is a wreck but is flown by the powers of the magic necklace belonging to the cat Jake.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=fr&sp=nmt4&u=http://www.aeromovies.fr/articles.php?lng=en&pg=2477&prt=-1&usg=ALkJrhgBciw-Jp3e374rKmGGJgqvWy9WiA |title=Google Translate |website=translate.googleusercontent.com |access-date=10 October 2017}}</ref>

More recently, Model 75s have appeared in a number of films including ''[[Independence Day (1996 film)|Independence Day]]'' (1996), ''[[The English Patient (film)|The English Patient]]'' (1997),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sportaviationonline.org/sportaviation/200907?pg=59#pg59 |title=EAA Sport Aviation – July 2009 |website=Sportaviationonline.org |date=22 June 2009 |access-date=30 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012162253/http://www.sportaviationonline.org/sportaviation/200907?pg=59 |archive-date=12 October 2013}}</ref> and ''[[Pearl Harbor (film)|Pearl Harbor]]'' (2001).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://planesoffame.org/index.php?mact=staircraft,cntnt01,default,0&cntnt01what=stplanes&cntnt01alias=Stearman-Kaydet&cntnt01returnid=128 |title=Stearman Model 75 |website=Planes of Fame |access-date=30 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323142102/http://planesoffame.org/index.php?mact=staircraft,cntnt01,default,0&cntnt01what=stplanes&cntnt01alias=Stearman-Kaydet&cntnt01returnid=128 |archive-date=23 March 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Bristol Beaufighter==
[[File:Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bristol Beaufighter. CH2739.jpg|thumb|[[Bristol Beaufighter]]]]

Comics writer [[Garth Ennis]]' 2007 revival of the old British war comic hero ''[[Battler Britton]]: Bloody Good Show'', featured the ace fighter pilot commanding a squadron of [[Bristol Beaufighter]]s in North Africa during the Second World War.<ref>{{cite web |last=Glasser |first=Paul |url=http://www.armchairgeneral.com/comics-battler-briton.htm |title=Battler Britton – Comic Review |website=Armchair General |date=12 January 2007 |access-date=6 March 2013}}</ref>

== Bristol Blenheim ==
[[Bristol Blenheim]]s appear in the 1945 British film ''[[The Way to the Stars]]'' (released in the US as ''Johnny in the Clouds''). In the early part of the film, Pilot Officer Peter Penrose ([[John Mills]]), a '15-hour sprog' (rookie) arrives at Halfpenny Field, a Royal Air-Force aerodrome, in the summer of 1940 and joins B-Flight of No 72 Squadron, equipped with Blenheims and commanded by Flight-Lieutenant David Archdale ([[Michael Redgrave]]).<ref>Rowan, Terry. ''World War II Goes to the Movies & Television Guide'', p. 528. Lulu, 2012.</ref>

A Bristol Blenheim IV, restored from a [[Bristol Bolingbroke|Bolingbroke IVT]], appeared in the 1995 film ''[[Richard III (1995 film)|Richard III]]'', an adaptation of Shakespeare's play directed by and starring [[Ian McKellen]]; who set the play in an imaginary 1930s England ruled by a fascist-style Monarch.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://globio.travel/details/Bristol-Blenheim/4dc011ac2e59da445e3eedd8 |title=Bristol Blenheim |publisher=Globio Travel |access-date=17 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013022323/http://globio.travel/details/Bristol-Blenheim/4dc011ac2e59da445e3eedd8 |archive-date=13 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Bristol Britannia==
A [[Bristol Britannia|Bristol Type 175 Britannia]] airliner was the central feature of the 1959 film ''[[Jet Over the Atlantic]]'' (also released as ''High Over the Atlantic''), a drama directed by [[Byron Haskin]] and starring [[Guy Madison]] and [[Virginia Mayo]]. The film's plot is about an airliner en route from Spain to the United States. Among the passengers is an American who has been arrested for murder and is being extradited back to the US. Another passenger, rendered mentally unstable by the loss of his daughter, releases a toxic gas on board the aircraft, rendering the flight crew unconscious, leaving the prisoner as the only person capable of flying the aircraft. Despite the film's title, the Bristol Type 175 was a turbo-prop engined aircraft rather than a jet-powered plane.<ref>Beck, Simon D. ''The Aircraft-Spotter's Film and Television Guide''. McFarland Publishers, 2016. pp. 129-130.</ref>

==Bristol F2B==
[[File:Bristol F2B Fighter ‘D8096 - D’ (G-AEPH) (30498711523).jpg|thumb|right|[[Bristol F2B]]]]

In the long-running British First World War comic strip ''[[Charley's War]]'', published in ''[[Battle Picture Weekly]]'' 1979–1986 and written by [[Pat Mills]] and illustrated by [[Joe Colquhoun]], the storyline goes on a tangent when Charley Bourne's younger brother Wilf enlists under-age and becomes an observer/gunner in a [[Bristol F.2 Fighter|Bristol F2B]] squadron in France in early 1918.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://comicattack.net/2011/12/titancharleyswarhy/ |title=Titan Reviews: Charley's War: Hitler's Youth (HC) |website=Comic Attack.net |date=14 December 2011 |access-date=28 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201025624/http://comicattack.net/2011/12/titancharleyswarhy/ |archive-date=1 February 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Mills |first1=Pat |last2=Colquhoun |first2=Joe |title=Charley's War: (Volume 8) – Hitler's Youth |publisher=Titan Books |location=London, UK |year=2011 |page=32}}</ref>

A replica Bristol F2B mounted on skis was featured in the 1981 film ''[[Death Hunt]]'' which starred [[Charles Bronson]] and [[Lee Marvin]]. The replica, which was constructed in the US and had an inverted Ford Ranger engine instead of a Rolls-Royce, was originally commissioned in 1979 to appear in the film ''[[High Road to China (film)|High Road to China]]'' (1983), but was not used in that production.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aviationgifts.org.uk/vintage.html |title=Aviation Information and History |website=Aviation Gifts.org.uk |access-date=24 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130806223823/http://aviationgifts.org.uk/vintage.html |archive-date=6 August 2013}}</ref>

The fictional RFC unit featured in Derek Robinson's 1999 novel ''Hornet's Sting'', set in 1917 over the Western Front, exchange their outdated Sopwith Pups for the new Bristol F2Bs.<ref name="guardian2001">{{cite news |first=Nicholas |last=Lezard |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/nov/03/fiction.reviews1 |title=Review: Hornet's Sting by Derek Robinson |newspaper=The Guardian |date=4 November 2001 |location=London, UK |access-date=17 August 2012}}</ref>

==Bristol Tourer==
A flying replica of a [[Bristol Tourer]], a civil utility biplane developed from the Bristol F2B, appeared in the 1985 Australian TV mini-series ''[[A Thousand Skies]]'', a dramatisation of the career of famous Australian aviator [[Charles Kingsford Smith]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aviationwa.org.au/aviation-lists-information/other-preserved-non-flying-aircraft-in-western-australia/|title=Other preserved (non-flying) aircraft in Western Australia|date=29 March 2013}}</ref>

==Bristol Type 170 Freighter==
A [[Bristol Freighter|Bristol Type 170 Freighter Mk. 11A]] played a major role in the 1957 British film ''[[Decision Against Time|The Man in the Sky]]'' (distributed in the U.S. as ''Decision Against Time)'' directed by [[Charles Crichton]] and starring [[Jack Hawkins]]. In the film, one of the engines catches fire during a test flight, and Hawkins' character struggles to use up enough fuel to make an emergency landing. During filming, the aircraft was damaged in a crash, but was repaired and returned to service with [[Silver City Airways]] until it was retired and scrapped in 1962.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://glostransporthistory.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/JetAgeRMC_Bristol170.htm |title=Bristol Type 170 Freighter & Wayfarer |website=Gloucestershire Transport History |access-date=18 July 2012}}</ref>

== Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander ==
In the 2015 [[James Bond]] film ''[[Spectre (2015 film)|Spectre]],'' Bond pilots a [[Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander|BN-2 Islander]] through the Austrian Alps to rescue [[Madeleine Swann]] from [[SPECTRE|Spectre]] gang members.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.aeronewstv.com/en/lifestyle/art-culture/2891-spectre-a-highflying-james-bond.html |title="Spectre": a highflying James Bond |website=www.aeronewstv.com |access-date=2019-03-02 |archive-date=6 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043158/https://www.aeronewstv.com/en/lifestyle/art-culture/2891-spectre-a-highflying-james-bond.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Bücker Bü 181==
In the 1963 [[epic film]] ''[[The Great Escape (film)|The Great Escape]]'', the [[prisoners of war]] played by [[James Garner]] and [[Donald Pleasence]] steal a ''Luftwaffe'' [[Bücker Bü 181]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thegreatescapelocations.com/penzig_and_miesbach.htm |title=Penzig and Miesbach |website=www.thegreatescapelocations.com |access-date=21 February 2018 |archive-date=12 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212020247/http://www.thegreatescapelocations.com/penzig_and_miesbach.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref> No aircraft were involved in the actual escape from [[Stalag Luft III]]. Pleasence, who had been an aircraft wireless operator with [[No. 166 Squadron RAF|No. 166 Squadron]], was imprisoned in [[Stalag Luft I]] after his [[Avro Lancaster|Lancaster]] was shot down over Germany on 31 August 1944.<ref>Chorley, W.R. (1997), ''Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War'', Volume 5: 1944, p. 407. Midland Counties Publications, UK. {{ISBN|0-904597-91-1}}.</ref>

==C-2 Greyhound==
In the 2003 film ''[[Tears of the Sun]],'' a [[United States Navy SEALs|SEAL]] team performs a parachute jump from a [[Grumman C-2 Greyhound|Grumman C-2A Greyhound]] to begin a mission in [[Nigeria]].<ref name="navy.mil">[http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=2939 'Tears of the Sun' Wraps Up Filming on HST August 5, 2002] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312074152/http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=2939 |date=12 March 2017}} ''[[Navy.mil]]'' Retrieved 10 March 2017</ref>

==C-17 Globemaster III==
[[File:C17 aircraft alt.jpg|thumb| [[Boeing C-17 Globemaster III]]]]

In the 2018 film [[Mission: Impossible – Fallout]], [[Ethan Hunt]] performs a [[High-altitude military parachuting|HALO]] jump from a [[Boeing C-17 Globemaster III]] belonging to the [[United Arab Emirates Air Force|UAE Air Force]].<ref name="Cruise HALO">{{cite news |last1=Ritman |first1=Alex |title=Why the Biggest Stunt in 'Mission: Impossible – Fallout' Saw Abu Dhabi Stand in for Paris |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/mission-impossible-fallout-why-biggest-stunt-saw-abu-dhabi-stand-paris-1130267/ |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=27 July 2018}}</ref>

In the TV series ''[[Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.]]'', a heavily modified C-17 serves as the team's "Bus".<ref name="SHIELD Bus">{{cite web |last1=Gallagher |first1=Brian |title=Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Featurette 'The Bus' |url=https://movieweb.com/marvels-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-featurette-the-bus/ |website=movieweb.com|date=23 September 2013}}</ref>

==C-47 Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper / Dakota==
{{see also-text|[[#Douglas DC-3|Douglas DC-3]] section for the civilian aircraft on which the Dakota was based}}
[[File:douglas c47-a skytrain n1944a cotswoldairshow 2010 arp.jpg|thumb|[[Douglas C-47 Skytrain]]]]

A ski-equipped [[Douglas C-47 Skytrain]] is featured in [[Howard Hawks]]' 1951 science-fiction thriller, ''[[The Thing From Another World]]'', based on the 1938 novella ''[[Who Goes There?]]'' by [[John W. Campbell, Jr.]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bananalogic.net/reviews/sci-fi-sunday-the-thing-from-another-world/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723022801/http://www.bananalogic.net/reviews/sci-fi-sunday-the-thing-from-another-world/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 July 2011 |title=Sci-Fi Sunday: The Thing From Another World! |website=Bananalogic |date=5 December 2010 |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

In the 1955 British film ''[[The Night My Number Came Up]]'' directed by [[Leslie Norman (director)|Leslie Norman]] and starring [[Michael Redgrave]] and [[Denholm Elliott]], a man tells guests at a dinner party of a dream he had of a Tokyo-bound Dakota that crashes in the Japanese mountains. Some of the guests board such a flight the next day and they begin to fear the dream is coming true.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/84892/Night-My-Number-Came-Up-The/ |title=Night My Number Came Up, The (1955) - Overview - TCM.com |website=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref>

Eleven aircraft were gathered for airdrop scenes in the 1977 film ''[[A Bridge Too Far (film)|A Bridge Too Far]]'', all of which had to be of a paratroop configuration, representing the C-53 Skytrooper variant.<ref name="Hurst_p33-34"/>

A Douglas C-47 DL Skytrain featured in the climactic scenes of the 1978 film ''[[The Wild Geese]]'' which starred [[Richard Burton]] and [[Roger Moore]] as the leaders of a group of British mercenaries sent to rescue a deposed African leader. The C-47 used in the film belonged to United Air of South Africa and was nick-named 'The Wild Goose' after its film role. The aircraft was destroyed in a crash in South Africa in 1988 which claimed the lives of all 24 people on board.<ref>Beck, Simon D. ''The Aircraft-Spotter's Film & Television Guide'', pp. 216-217. McFarland Publishers, 2016.</ref>

Indiana Jones travels from New York City to Venice in the 1989 adventure [[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The story behind the DC-3 |url=https://www.stronduk.com/about-the-dc3 |access-date=17 August 2023 |website=Strond}}</ref>

==C-54 Skymaster==
The [[20th Century Fox]] production ''[[The Big Lift]]'' (originally titled ''Quartered City''), set during the [[Berlin Airlift]], was filmed in Berlin at a former German studio near [[Tempelhof]] in 1949 and [[Douglas C-54 Skymaster]]s were prominently featured. Military personnel from [[Rhein-Main Air Base]] appeared as extras.<ref>{{cite book |first1=John |last1=Provan |first2=Ronald Edward George |last2=Davies |title=Berlin Airlift The Effort and the Aircraft |year=1998 |isbn=978-1-88896-205-5 |page=64|publisher=Paladwr }}</ref>

==C-82 Packet==
The crash of a [[Fairchild C-82 Packet]] in the North African desert is central to the plot of the 1965 film ''[[The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film)|The Flight of the Phoenix]]'' drawn from a 1964 novel by [[Elleston Trevor]] [[The Flight of the Phoenix (novel)|of the same title]].<ref name="aerofilesFilmsF">{{cite web |url=http://www.aerofiles.com/film-f.html |title=Aviation Films – F |website=Aerofiles |access-date=8 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100414103301/http://aerofiles.com/film-f.html |archive-date=14 April 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==C-119 Flying Boxcar==
[[File:Fairchild C-119B of the 314th Troop Carrier Group in flight, 1952 (021001-O-9999G-016).jpg|thumb|right|[[Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar]] ]]

The [[Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar]] was the subject of the 2004 [[Flight of the Phoenix (2004 film)|remake of ''Flight of the Phoenix'']], using the descendant design of the [[C-82 Packet]] of the original.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ruudleeuw.com/c119-n3267u.htm |title=Fairchild C-119F "Boxcar" N3267U |website=Aviation History & Photography |first=Ruud |last=Leeuw |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

==C-121 Constellation==
[[Lockheed C-121 Constellation|Lockheed C-121A Constellation]] tail number 48-615 was used in the 1977 film ''[[MacArthur (1977 film)|MacArthur]]'', starring [[Gregory Peck]], painted in [[Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers]] (SCAP) markings.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1946.html |title=1946–1948 USAAF Serial Numbers |website=joebaugher.com |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

==C-123 Provider==
[[File:AC Fairchild C123 colour.jpg|thumb|[[Fairchild C-123 Provider]]]]
In the 1990 [[action film]] ''[[Die Hard 2]]'', [[John McClane]] ejects from the cockpit of a grounded [[Fairchild C-123 Provider]] for a parachute recovery just before terrorists destroy it. A full-scale fuselage mock-up, molded from a real Provider, was rigged with 3,000 bullet hits, each one drilled and loaded with a charge, tapped, and wired to discharge in sequence. Actual pyrotechnics work was done at [[Ventura County, California|Indian Dunes, California]], with actor [[Bruce Willis]]' ejection composited into the shot later.{{sfnp|Cotta Vaz|Duignan|1996|p=182}}

The 1990 film ''[[Air America (film)|Air America]]'' loosely recounted the exploits of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] proprietary airline in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and early 1970s and featured Fairchild C-123K Providers leased from the [[Royal Thai Air Force]].<ref name="AerofilesFilmsA"/>

The C-123 was featured in the 1997 film ''[[Con Air]]'', with much of the film's action taking place in and around the aircraft.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Sweetman |first=Bill |url=http://www.airspacemag.com/how-things-work/how-the-747-got-its-hump-4578877/?all&no-ist |title=How the 747 Got Its Hump |journal=Air & Space/Smithsonian |date=1 May 2003 |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref> Three C-123s were used in the production of the film. One aircraft was used for all of the flying sequences. Another was used for the [[taxiing]] scenes and the third Provider, non-airworthy and in poor condition, was dismantled and its fuselage used for the filming of the climatic crash scene.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oldwings.nl/content/con_air/con_air.htm |title=Old Wings – Con Air C-123 Providers |website=Old Wings |access-date=10 October 2012}}</ref>

==C-130 Hercules==
The 1976 film ''[[Raid on Entebbe (film)|Raid on Entebbe]]'' was based on a real-life Israeli military rescue mission which relied on the unique short-field capabilities of the [[Lockheed C-130 Hercules|Lockheed C-130]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Correll |first1=John |title=Entebbe |url=https://www.airforcemag.com/PDF/MagazineArchive/Documents/2010/December%202010/1210entebbe.pdf |website=[[Air Force Times]] |access-date=1 January 2020}}</ref>

In the place of a Soviet transport plane, a C-130 Hercules (or [[Lockheed L-100 Hercules]] civilian model in military markings) was featured in the 1987 [[James Bond]] film ''[[The Living Daylights]]''; a [[C-123 Provider|C-123K Provider]] was used for some tail ramp fight scene close-ups.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jamesbondmm.co.uk/vehicles/hercules |title=Hercules |last=James Bond MultiMedia |access-date=19 May 2010}}</ref>

The special operations variant, the [[Lockheed MC-130]] Combat Talon, was featured as the rescue aircraft in the 1997 film ''[[Air Force One (film)|Air Force One]]'', performing a daring mid-air rescue of the President and his family as Air Force One is failing and going into the water.<ref name="Larson"/>

[[File:AC-130 Training.jpg|thumb|right|[[Lockheed AC-130]]]]
In the 2007 film ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' a [[close air support]] variant of the C-130, the [[Lockheed AC-130|AC-130]] gunship, is used to drive off the Decepticons after the military base in Qatar is attacked, by executing a [[pylon turn]] to deliver ground fire.<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415095748/http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46591 |archive-date=15 April 2015 |url=http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46591 |title=Servicemembers Get Sneak Preview of 'Transformers' |first=John J. |last=Kruzel |website=US Department of Defense |date=29 July 2007 |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

In the 2007 game ''[[Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare]]'', the player uses an AC-130H for support. The AC-130H is also playable during the mission "Death from Above".<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.videogamer.com/features/death-from-above-how-cod4-is-the-most-realistic-war-game-ever-made |title=Death From Above: How COD4 is the most realistic war game ever made |work=VideoGamer.com |access-date=2018-09-28}}</ref> Since its initial inclusion, it has become a staple of the series, making further appearances in ''[[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2|Modern Warfare 2]]'', ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops|Black Ops]]'', ''[[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3|Modern Warfare 3]]'', ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops 4|Black Ops 4]]'', the 2019 ''[[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019 video game)|Modern Warfare]]'' remake and [[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022 video game)|its sequel]], ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War|Black Ops Cold War]]'', and the ''[[Call of Duty Online|Online]]'' and ''[[Call of Duty: Heroes|Heroes]]'' mobile games.

In the 2013 film ''[[Olympus Has Fallen]]'', a C-130 armed with [[rotary cannon|multi-barrel cannons]] attacks Washington, D.C., and shoots down two USAF F-22 Raptor fighters sent to intercept it. The C-130 is shot down by another F-22 and crashes into the [[Washington Monument]], causing part of it to collapse.<ref name="Olympus_Has_Fallen">{{cite web |url=http://www.awn.com/articles/visual-effects/more-vfx-than-meets-the-eye-in-olympus-has-fallen |title=More VFX than Meets the Eye in Olympus Has Fallen |last=Sarto |first=Dan |date=3 April 2013 |website=Animation World Network |access-date=30 June 2013}}</ref>

In the 2013 film ''[[Lone Survivor (film)|Lone Survivor]]'', an AC-130 variant provides firepower as Luttrell is extracted from the village towards the end of the film.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://image-engine.com/film/lone-survivor/ |title=Lone Survivor |website=Image Engine |date=10 January 2014 |access-date=16 November 2014}}</ref>

The 2020 film ''[[Operation Christmas Drop (film)|Operation Christmas Drop]]'', a romantic comedy loosely based on the actual annual USAF humanitarian mission [[Operation Christmas Drop|of the same name]], features Alexander Ludwig as a C-130 pilot as he prepares and conducts the long-running mission in his C-130J.<ref name="Christmas Drop">{{cite news |last1=Doornbos |first1=Caitlin |title=Andersen Air Force Base stars in Netflix film 'Operation Christmas Drop' |url=https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/andersen-air-force-base-stars-in-netflix-film-operation-christmas-drop-1.648774 |work=Stars and Stripes |date=16 October 2020}}</ref>

==CAC Wirraway==
A restored [[CAC Wirraway|Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Wirraway]], an Australian production variant of the North American NA-16 Harvard, appeared in the beach landing scenes in the 1998 war film ''[[The Thin Red Line (1998 film)|The Thin Red Line]]'' directed by [[Terrence Malick]] and based on the 1962 [[James Jones (author)|James Jones]] novel of the [[The Thin Red Line (novel)|same name]]. In the film, the aircraft is painted to depict a [[Douglas SBD Dauntless]] dive bomber.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newspix.com.au/Packages/ViewImage.aspx?id=65952 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121230145716/http://www.newspix.com.au/Packages/ViewImage.aspx?id=65952 |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 December 2012 |title=Image Preview |website=Newspix |date=1 June 1999 |access-date=20 July 2012}}</ref>

==Capelis XC-12==
The [[Capelis XC-12]], an unsuccessful 1933 transport design, appears in the 1939 film ''[[Five Came Back]]'', as a bomber in the 1942 Republic film ''[[Flying Tigers (film)|Flying Tigers]]''<ref name="FlyingTigersFilms"/> and the 1943 film ''[[Immortal Sergeant]]''.{{cn|date=December 2023}}

==Caproni Ca.60==
The [[Caproni Ca.60|Caproni Ca.60 Noviplano]], a nine-wing flying boat of which only a single prototype was constructed and which crashed on its first test flight in 1921, features in the 2013 Japanese animated feature ''[[The Wind Rises]]'', a romantic dramatization of the life of Japanese aircraft designer [[Jiro Horikoshi]]. In the film, the Italian aeronautical designer [[Giovanni Caproni]] appears as a mentor to Horikoshi in several dream sequences, one of which features a tour of the Ca.60.<ref name="variety1">{{cite journal |first=Scott |last=Foundas |url=https://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/the-wind-rises-review-venice-toronto-1200592219/# |title='The Wind Rises' Review: Hayao Miyazaki's Haunting Epic |journal=Variety |date=29 August 2013 |access-date=15 January 2014}}</ref>

==CASA 2.111==
Several ex-Spanish Air Force [[CASA 2.111]]s were used as "stand-ins" to depict German [[Heinkel He 111]] bombers in the 1969 film ''[[Battle of Britain (film)|Battle of Britain]]''.{{sfnp|Chapman|Goodall|1992|p=185}}

Four ex-Spanish CASA 2.111s, playing the role of Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111s, were also used in the production of the 1970 Oscar-winning film ''[[Patton (film)|Patton]]'', starring [[George C. Scott]].{{sfnp|Suid|2002|p=256}}

==Caudron 277==
A [[Caudron C.277|Caudron 277]] was used to play the role of both British and German two-seaters in the 1966 First World War aerial epic ''[[The Blue Max]]'' directed by [[John Guillermin]] and based on the 1964 novel of the same name by [[Jack D. Hunter]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rwebs.net/avhistory/bluemax/pnblmax.html |first=Randy |last=Wilson |title=Original Pilot's Notes for WWI Replica Aircraft used in the movie The Blue Max |website=Aviation History Site |year=1997 |access-date=30 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115005936/http://rwebs.net/avhistory/bluemax/pnblmax.html |archive-date=15 January 2013}}</ref>

==Cessna 310==
The protagonist of the 1950s American television show ''Sky King'', played by actor [[Kirby Grant]], flew a [[Cessna 310]] in later episodes.<ref name="EAA Sky King">{{cite web|url=https://www.eaa.org/eaa/news-and-publications/eaa-news-and-aviation-news/news/03-17-2016-flying-with-sky-king|title=Flying With Sky King|last=Morrow|first=Chuck|website=www.eaa.org|publisher=[[Experimental Aircraft Association]]|date=17 March 2016|access-date=18 March 2021}}</ref>

==Cessna 402==
A [[Cessna 402]], operated by the fictional small airline Sandpiper Air at Tom Nevers Field airport, [[Nantucket]], was featured in the [[NBC-TV]] sitcom ''[[Wings (NBC TV series)|Wings]]'' which ran for eight seasons, 1990–1997.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dvdmoviecentral.com/ReviewsText/wings.htm |first=Ed |last=Nguyen |title=Wings |website=DVD Movie Central |date=23 May 2006 |access-date=27 July 2012}}</ref>

==Cessna T-50==
The protagonist of the 1950s television show ''Sky King'' flew a [[Cessna T-50]] in early episodes; the aircraft was later replaced by a Cessna 310.<ref name="EAA Sky King"/>

==CG-4 Haig / Hadrian==
Crashed [[Waco CG-4|WACO CG-4A]] gliders of the [[99th Airlift Squadron|99th Troop Carrier Squadron]] were depicted by replicas in the film ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]''. These were recreated using measurements taken from a surviving example at the [[Museum of Army Flying]], [[Middle Wallop]], [[Hampshire]], England.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sproe.com/g/glider.html |title=CG-4A Haig Glider |website=Saving Private Ryan Online Encyclopedia |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

==CH-34 Choctaw / Westland Wessex==
A surplus US Army [[Sikorsky H-34|Sikorsky S-58DT]] (a converted [[Sikorsky CH-34 Choctaw|UH-34D]]) was prominently featured as ''Screaming Mimi'' in the 1984–86 television series ''[[Riptide (American TV series)|Riptide]]'', and remains in service.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://summithelicopter.com/mamamimi.htm |title=The Screaming Mimi! |website=Summit Helicopter |year=2014 |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scale-rotors.com/galerie/1-utility-helicopters/9876-sikorsky-s-58t-italeri.html |title=Sikorsky S-58T, Italeri 1:72 by Dennis Lautwein |website=Scale-rotors.com |year=2016 |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

[[Westland Wessex]] helicopters portrayed CH-34 Choctaws in [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s 1987 film ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rose |first=Lloyd |title=Stanley Kubrick, At a Distance |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=28 June 1987 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/movies/features/kubrick1987.htm |access-date=11 October 2007}}</ref>

Turbine-repowered Sikorsky S-58Ts portrayed CH-34 Choctaws in the 1990 film ''[[Air America (film)|Air America]]'' about the exploits of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] proprietary airline during the war in Southeast Asia.<ref name="AerofilesFilmsA"/>

==CH-46 Sea Knight / Boeing-Vertol 107==
In the 1967 [[James Bond]] film ''[[You Only Live Twice (film)|You Only Live Twice]]'' a [[Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight|KV-107]] has an [[electromagnet]] slung loaded underneath, and is used to airlift an antagonist's car off the road, thereby freeing up [[James Bond (literary character)|007]] from their pursuit.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/y.html |title=Films – Y |website=Rotary Action |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923173347/http://www.rotaryaction.com/y.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref>

A Kawasaki-built KV-107 portrays a [[Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight|UH-46 Sea Knight]] of the [[United States Navy]] that airlifts a team of hijackers aboard the {{USS|Missouri|BB-63|6}} in the 1992 film ''[[Under Siege]]'', and is later depicted being blown up on the ship's [[Poop deck|fantail]]. Filming was done aboard the {{USS|Alabama|BB-60|6}} museum ship.<ref name="RotaryactionU">{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/u.html |title=Films – U |website=Rotary Action |year=2010 |access-date=13 August 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923173013/http://www.rotaryaction.com/u.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref>

==CH-47 Chinook / Boeing-Vertol 234==
In the 2000 film ''[[Rules of Engagement (film)|Rules of Engagement]]'' two [[Boeing CH-47 Chinook|Boeing-Vertol 234 Chinook]] helicopters are portrayed as [[Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight]]s of the [[United States Marine Corps]]. The helicopters transport a rescue team to evacuate personal from a fallen embassy in [[Yemen]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/ruleseng.html |title=Rules of Engagement |website=Rotary Action |access-date=27 May 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150316151928/http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/ruleseng.html |archive-date =16 March 2015}}</ref>

A CH-47D performs the rescue mission by pulling up a wrecked [[Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma|Super Puma]] in the film ''[[Rescue Under Fire]]''.<ref name="auto2">{{cite web |url=http://abcblogs.abc.es/tierra-mar-aire/public/post/zona-hostil-afganistan-20729.asp/ |title=Zona hostil: Afganistán, la guerra que no se quiso contar pasa ahora al cine |date=18 January 2017 |website=ABC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170120001255/http://abcblogs.abc.es/tierra-mar-aire/public/post/zona-hostil-afganistan-20729.asp/ |archive-date=20 January 2017 |access-date=11 November 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Cirrus SR22==
Starting in 2007, the [[Cirrus SR22]] became one of two aircraft (along with the [[F-16 Fighting Falcon]]) to be featured in [[Google Earth Flight Simulator]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2009/08/planes_for_google_earth_flight_simu.html |title=Planes For Google Earth Flight Simulator &#124; Google Earth Blog |date=11 August 2009 |publisher=Gearthblog.com |access-date=26 May 2020}}</ref>

The SR22 was also featured in the final scene of the 2010 romantic comedy film ''[[She's Out of My League]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/two-reasons-to-watch-shes-out-of-my-league/272559/ |title=Two Reasons to Watch 'She's Out of My League' |website=The Atlantic |date=26 January 2013 |access-date=26 May 2020}}</ref>

==Concorde==
[[File:Concorde on Bristol.jpg|right|thumb|[[Concorde]]]]

The [[Concorde]] was the title aircraft and star of the 1979 film ''[[The Concorde&nbsp;... Airport '79]]'' in which it was flown primarily by [[Alain Delon]] and [[George Kennedy]]'s characters.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.concordesst.com/accident/203a.html |title=The Concorde SST Web Site: History of the aircraft that would become Air France Flight 4590 |website=Concorde SST |access-date=10 August 2014}}</ref> The aircraft used crashed twenty one years later as [[Air France Flight 4590]], killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground.

In the 1982 serial "[[Time-Flight]]" of the [[BBC]] sci fi series ''[[Doctor Who]]'' a Concorde, its passengers, and crew are pulled through time to a prehistoric version of Earth, and the Doctor commandeers a second to follow it.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/timeflight/detail.shtml |title=Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide - Time Flight |website=BBC |year=2014 |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

The [[Aerialbot]] [[Silverbolt]] of the Transformers turns into a Concorde.<ref name="Schroeders">{{cite book |last=Huxford |first=Sharon |title=Schroeder's Collectible Toys: Antique to Modern Guide |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GXKFR1S1OJsC |year=1995 |publisher=Collector Books |isbn=978-0-89145-661-2}}</ref>

In the 2010 [[Charles Stross]] novel ''[[The Fuller Memorandum]]'', the occult arm of the British government maintains four Concordes for use as supersonic reconnaissance aircraft to monitor the [[Nyarlathotep|Sleeper in the Pyramid]]. In the event of the Black Pharaoh awakening, the Concordes are to be used as nuclear bombers to attempt to contain the threat before it manifests on Earth.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Fuller Memorandum |last=Stross |first=Charles |publisher=Ace Books |year=2010 |isbn=978-0441018673 |location=United Kingdom |url=https://archive.org/details/fullermemorandum00stro_0}}</ref>{{third-party inline|date=March 2017}}

In the 2017 film ''[[The Wife (2017 film)|The Wife]]'', two significant scenes, including the final one in the movie, take place on Concorde flights transporting a Nobel Prize winner. They were shot in the aircraft displayed at Scotland's [[National Museum of Flight]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Concorde the film star |url=https://blog.nms.ac.uk/2018/11/14/concorde-the-film-star/ |website=[[National Museum of Flight]] |access-date=27 March 2019 |date=14 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Phillips |first1=Michael |title='The Wife' review: Glenn Close rises to the occasion in rocky literary marriage |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/sc-mov-the-wife-rev-0821-story.html |access-date=27 March 2019 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=21 August 2018}}</ref>

==Consolidated NY==
United States Navy [[Consolidated NY]] trainers from [[Floyd Bennett Field]] appeared as some of the biplanes that attack [[King Kong]] atop the [[Empire State Building]] in the [[King Kong (1933 film)|1933 original film]].<ref name="TCM_Kong">{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=2690&category=Notes |title=Notes for King Kong (1933) |last=Turner Classic Movies |year=2010 |access-date=19 May 2010}}</ref>

==Convair XF-92==
The [[Convair XF-92]], an experimental delta-wing interceptor, played the role of an [[F-102 Delta Dagger]] in the 1956 film ''[[Toward the Unknown]]'' starring [[William Holden]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2013/06/weird-planes-cancelled-convair-xf-92/ |title=Weird Planes: Cancelled Convair XF-92 |website=Urban Ghosts Media.com |date=3 June 2013 |access-date=13 June 2014}}</ref>

==Curtiss JN-4 Jenny==
[[File:Marek Szufa Jenny (lighten).jpg|thumb|right|[[Curtiss JN-4 Jenny]]]]
A pair of [[Curtiss JN-4 Jenny]] biplanes featured in the 1919 silent film ''[[The Grim Game]]'' which starred [[Harry Houdini]]. In the film, the script originally called for a mid-air transfer of one of the characters between the two Jennys but while filming the scene, the two aircraft collided. Both pilots managed to safely crash-land and there were no injuries. The producers subsequently altered the script and incorporated the footage into the final cut.<ref>Carlson, Mark. ''Flying on Film: A Century of Aviation in the Movies 1912-2012'', pp. 34-35. Bearmanor Media, 2012.</ref>

A Curtiss JN-4 featured in the 1921 silent film ''[[Stranger than Fiction (1921 film)|Stranger than Fiction]]'' which starred [[Katherine MacDonald]]. The Jenny features in a major sequence in which the aircraft takes off from the roof of a 10-storey building in downtown Los Angeles. To film the scene, stunt pilot [[Frank Clarke (pilot)|Frank Clarke]] took off from a wooden ramp. Prior to launching, the Jenny was fixed to an anchor with a rope which was cut after Clarke revved the engine to full power. Nonetheless, the Jenny dropped five storeys before Clarke was able to level out and fly along the length of Broadway street. It is not known if the producers asked permission from city officials prior to performing the stunt.<ref>Carlson, Mark. ''Flying on Film: A Century of Aviation in the Movies 1912-2012'', pp. 31-32. Bearmanor Media, 2012.</ref>

A pair of JN-4s also featured in the 1925 film ''[[The Cloud Rider]]''. In one major scene, one of the Jennys flown by the film's female lead (played by [[Virginia Lee Corbin]]) loses a wheel (her plane having been sabotaged by the film's villains) and has to be assisted mid-air by the male lead (played by [[Al Wilson]]) who has another JN-4 pilot fly him alongside so he can climb onto the former's wing to render assistance. To film the scene, pilot Frank Clarke wore a wig to resemble the actress and after the aerial shots were completed, he was required to safely land his JN-4 with only one wheel.<ref>Carlson, Mark ''Flying on Film: A Century of Aviation in the Movies 1912-2012'', pp. 37-38. Bearmanor Media, 2012.</ref>

A JN-4 appeared in the 1926 film ''[[The Woman With Four Faces]]'' directed by [[Herbert Brenon]]. Once again, Frank Clarke was employed as a stunt pilot. For one scene, he was required to double as the male lead and, while landing his aircraft, wave at actress [[Betty Compson]]. However, when Clarke took his eyes off the runway, his Jenny crashed into a tree but the pilot escaped without injury.<ref>Carlson, Mark. ''Flying on Film: A Century of Aviation in the Movies 1912-2012'', p. 36. Bearmanor Media, 2012.</ref>

==Curtiss RC-1==
The rare US Marine Corps [[Curtiss Kingbird|Curtiss RC-1]] air ambulance, made an appearance in the 1935 [[Warner Bros.]] film ''[[Devil Dogs of the Air]]'' starring [[James Cagney]] and [[Pat O'Brien (actor)|Pat O'Brien]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aerofiles.com/_curtx.html |title=Curtiss: K through Z |website=Aerofiles |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

==Dassault Mirage 2000==
The [[Dassault Mirage 2000]] is prominently featured in the 2005 French movie ''[[Sky Fighters]]'' ({{lang|fr|Les Chevaliers du ciel}}) about two air force pilots preventing a terrorist attack on the [[Bastille Day]] celebrations in Paris.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aviation Films – K |url=http://www.aerofiles.com/film-k.html |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=Aerofiles}}</ref>

== de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver ==
[[File:C-FGYN Adlair Aviation de Havilland Beaver (DHC2) 01.jpg|thumb|[[de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver]]]]
The 1982 film ''[[Mother Lode (film)|Mother Lode]]'' made use of a [[de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver]] on floats as the neglected mount of character Jean Dupré ([[Nick Mancuso]]), who embarks on a search for a missing friend in northern [[British Columbia]]. During the filming the aircraft actually crashed while landing on a lake and sank. This accident was not in the original script, but the footage was retained and incorporated into the film's plot. The aircraft was recovered from the lake, repaired, restored and exported to the US.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dhc-2.com/id181.htm |title=DHC-2 Beaver s/n 274 |website=Beaver Tails |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

The DHC-2 was central to the 1998 film ''[[Six Days Seven Nights]]''. The actual flying in the film was done by its star, [[Harrison Ford]], who enjoyed flying the Beaver so much that he bought one after filming was completed.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.grandmagazine.com/2010/08/harrison-ford/ |title=The Passions of Harrison Ford |last=Hunt |first=Mary |issue=February–March 2005 |journal=Grand |pages=34–36 |access-date=5 February 2010}}</ref> Three flying Beavers and four non-flyable were used in the production, all detailed to exactly match one another.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.studiowings.com/the-making-of-six-days-seven-nights |title=The Making of Six Days Seven Nights |website=Studio Wings |year=2016 |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

==de Havilland Comet==
The [[de Havilland Comet]] airliner is featured in the 1952 British film ''[[The Sound Barrier]]''.<ref name="aerofilesFilmsB"/>

==de Havilland DH.4==
The 1927 [[William Wellman]] film ''[[Wings (1927 film)|Wings]]'' featured [[Airco DH.4|de Havilland DH.4]]s among many types depicting World War I aircraft.<ref name="historynet1">{{cite web |url=http://www.historynet.com/top-10-best-and-worst-aviation-movies.htm/2 |last=Boyne |first=Walter J. |title=Top 10 Best and Worst Aviation Movies |website=History Net |date=1 August 2010}}</ref>

==de Havilland DH.9/DH.9A==
A [[de Havilland DH.9]] featured in the 1928 film ''[[The Legion of the Condemned]]'' which was directed by [[William A. Wellman]] and starred [[Gary Cooper]]. The film portrayed an RFC pilot named Gale Price (Cooper) who, heartbroken over what he believes to be his unrequited love for a French woman, volunteers for a special unit tasked with flying dangerous missions during the Great War. However, during a mission behind German lines, Price discovers the woman Christine is working as an Allied spy and is still in love with him. In the film, Price lands a DH.9 in enemy territory to rescue Christine from her German captors. The film also made extensive use of leftover aerial footage from [[Wings (1927 film)|''Wings'']] which Wellman had directed the previous year.<ref>Carlson, Mark ''Flying on Film: A Century of Aviation in the Movies 1912-2012'', pp. 52-54. Bearmanor Media, 2012.</ref>

==de Havilland DH.88 Comet==
''Grosvenor House'' and ''Black Magic'', together with their crews, feature prominently in a 1990 TV two-part Australian dramatisation of the 1934 London to [[Melbourne]] [[MacRobertson Air Race|MacRobertson Trophy Air Race]], titled ''Half a World Away'' and later released on DVD as ''[[The Great Air Race (1990 Australian Mini-Series)|The Great Air Race]]''.<ref name="OzSmlScn203">{{cite book|last=Murray |first=Scott |title=Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |year=1996 |page=[https://archive.org/details/australiaonsmall00murr/page/203 203] |isbn=9780195539493 |url=https://archive.org/details/australiaonsmall00murr/page/203}}</ref> Non-flying replicas were constructed, that of G-ACSS being taxi-able.<ref name="GtAirRace62">{{cite journal |last=Hooks |first=Mike |title=Q&A |journal=Aeroplane |date=February 2014 |issue=490 |volume=42 |page=62}}</ref>

A [[de Havilland DH.88 Comet|DH.88 Comet]] named Bulldog and voiced by [[John Cleese]] is one of the characters in [[Disney]]'s 2013 animated film ''[[Planes (film)|Planes]]''.<ref name="theatlantic1">{{cite journal |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/08/disneys-i-planes-i-is-a-weirdly-accurate-depiction-of-flying/278484/ |title=Disney's Planes Is a Weirdly Accurate Depiction of Flying |first=Lane |last=Wallace |journal=[[The Atlantic]] |date=9 August 2013 |access-date=26 November 2013}}</ref>

==de Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide==
The [[de Havilland Dragon Rapide]] VH-BGP portrayed Rapide, ZK-ACO, "Tainui", race number 60, in the 1991 Australian mini-series ''[[The Great Air Race (miniseries)|The Great Air Race]]'', about the 1934 London to [[Melbourne]] [[MacRobertson Air Race|MacRobertson Trophy Air Race]].<ref name="GtAirRace62"/> It is also known as ''Half a World Away''.<ref name="OzSmlScn203"/>

A de Havilland DH-89A Dragon Rapide 6 featured in the episode "Out of Time" in Season 1 (2006) of the BBC sci-fi series ''[[Torchwood]]''. The episode features a DH-89 carrying three occupants, landing at Cardiff airport in the present day after being mysteriously transported in time from 1953.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sharetv.org/shows/torchwood_uk/episodes/391702 |title=Torchwood (UK) 1x10 Out of Time |website=ShareTV |access-date=29 July 2012}}</ref>

==de Havilland Fox Moth==
[[File:DH.83C Fox Moth G-AOJH N.West AS RWY 06.58 edited-2.jpg|thumb|right|[[de Havilland Fox Moth]] ]]

The 1951 novel ''[[Round the Bend (1951 novel)|Round the Bend]]'' by [[Nevil Shute]] is the story of two men, both British [[Aircraft Maintenance Engineer|Licensed Aircraft Engineers]]. A large number of different aircraft types, both fictitious and real, appear in the book. The narrator and one of the protagonists of the story is Tom Cutter, and the novel details his efforts to establish an [[air charter]] business in [[Bahrain]] immediately after World War II. His first aircraft is a [[de Havilland Fox Moth]] and is later joined by several other aircraft as the business expands, mostly fictitious, but among them a [[Percival Proctor]].<ref name="Round_the_Bend"/>

==de Havilland Hornet Moth==
The novel ''[[Hornet Flight]]'' by Ken Follett is a thriller of [[Danish resistance movement|the Resistance against the Nazi occupation of Denmark]] in World War II. In the novel a [[de Havilland Hornet Moth]] is used by the protagonists to fly from Denmark to the United Kingdom with information about a German radar system. The author drew inspiration from an actual flight that took place during World War II.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ken-follett.com/bibliography/hornet_flight.html |title=Hornet Flight – official website |access-date=14 January 2010 |last=Follett |first=Ken |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090918213005/http://www.ken-follett.com/bibliography/hornet_flight.html |archive-date=18 September 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==de Havilland Mosquito==
[[File:15 Dehavilland Mosquito Merlin Engine (15216376883).jpg|thumb|right|[[de Havilland Mosquito]]]]
In the 1954 British film ''[[The Purple Plain]]'' with [[Gregory Peck]], a Canadian Second World War pilot crashes a [[de Havilland Mosquito]] on the Burma plain and struggles to survive.<ref name="CoastCompfilm"/> Two flying Mosquito PR.34s from [[No. 81 Squadron RAF]], [[Seletar]], Singapore, and a "disused" T.3, which arrived in pieces at the film site at [[Negombo]], [[Sri Lanka|Ceylon]] to represent the wrecked aircraft, were used in filming, all with fictional serial numbers. Flt. Sgt. (later Squadron Leader) "Chick" Kirkham flew for the flight sequences shot from a [[North American T-6 Texan|Harvard]] camera ship. The film received two nominations for the British Academy Awards.<ref>Beebee, Steve, "Movie Star Mossies", ''Flypast'', pp. 23–27. Key Publishing, Ltd., Stamford, Lincs., UK, June 2014, Number 395.</ref>

Mosquitos are featured prominently in ''[[The Adventures of Tintin]]'' 1958 comic book album ''[[The Red Sea Sharks]]''. They drive the plot in various ways, first as war-surplus equipment offered for sale by an [[arms dealer]] early in the story, and later in combat.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ciao.co.uk/The_Red_Sea_Sharks_Herge__Review_5421434 |title=A Cargo of Coke |access-date=17 March 2010 |author=Worrals |date=24 August 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824193157/http://www.ciao.co.uk/The_Red_Sea_Sharks_Herge__Review_5421434 |archive-date=24 August 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The military unit in the 1964 film ''[[633 Squadron]]'' is equipped with de Havilland Mosquitos. The film makes use of genuine, airworthy aircraft, rather than models, for many of the scenes.<ref>{{cite book |last=O'Hara |first=Bob |chapter=633 Squadron |title=The Making of the Great Aviation Films (Vol.2) |year=1989 |location=Canoga Park, California |publisher=Challenge Publications}}</ref>

Mosquitos also play the title role of the 1969 film ''[[Mosquito Squadron]]'', starring [[David McCallum]] and [[Charles Gray (actor)|Charles Gray]].<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1968/1968%20-%201352.html |title=Mosquito Film |issue=3098 |volume=94 |page=138 |journal=Flight |date=25 July 1968 |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

The Mosquito plays an important role with the [[de Havilland Vampire]] in [[Frederick Forsyth]]'s 1975 novella ''[[The Shepherd]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Gal8/7001-7100/gal7022-Santa-Shepherd-Petrie/00.shtm |title="The Shepherd": Story by Frederick Forsyth |author=Alvis 3.1 |website=Aircraft Resource Center |access-date=31 December 2010}}</ref>

[[Cyclops (Marvel Comics)|Scott Summers]] and his younger brother [[Havok (comics)|Alex Summers]], members of [[Marvel Comics]]' ''[[X-Men (comic book)|X-Men]]'', are orphaned as children after parachuting out of their father's Mosquito when it is set ablaze by an alien attack.<ref>''X-Factor'', Vol. 1, #39</ref>

Mosquitos play a central role in the 2019 graphic novel ''Out of the Blue'' written by [[Garth Ennis]] and illustrated by Keith Burns. The story features a young pilot Jamie Mckenzie who joins a Mosquito fighter-bomber unit of the Royal Air-Force and clashes with his CO.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsarama.com/42205-garth-ennis-and-keith-burns-fly-out-of-the-blue-for-aftershock.html|title=Garth Ennis And Keith Burns Fly Out of the Blue|website=Newsarama|date=5 July 2023 }}</ref>

RAF Mosquitos are heavily featured (via CGI) in the 2021 Danish film [[The Shadow in My Eye|''Skyggen i mit øje'']] (also released in English as ''The Bombardment''), depicting tragic events surrounding [[Operation Carthage]] in 1945.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://decider.com/2022/03/10/the-bombardment-netflix-true-story/|title=Is 'The Bombardment' Based on a True Story?}}</ref>

==de Havilland Puss Moth==
A [[de Havilland Leopard Moth]] was painted as [[de Havilland DH.80 Puss Moth]], VH-UQO, "My Hildegarde", race number 16, for the 1991 Australian mini-series ''[[The Great Air Race (miniseries)|The Great Air Race]]'', about the 1934 London to [[Melbourne]] [[MacRobertson Air Race]].<ref name="GtAirRace62"/> It is also known as ''Half a World Away''.<ref name="OzSmlScn203"/>

==de Havilland Tiger Moth==
A [[de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth]] appears in the 1952 [[David Lean]] film ''[[The Sound Barrier]]''. In the film, Christopher Ridgefield ([[Denholm Elliott]]) is killed in a crash while nervously trying to fly his first solo in a Tiger Moth to meet the approval of his stern father Sir John ([[Ralph Richardson]]).<ref>Pascoe, David. ''Aircraft'', p. 184. Reaktion Books, 2003.</ref><ref>Beck, Simon.D. ''The Aircraft Spotter's Film and Television Companion'', p. 179. McFarland, 2016.</ref>

A Tiger Moth appears in the opening scene of the 1996 film ''[[The English Patient (film)|The English Patient]]'', flying over the Sahara Desert, carrying a man and a woman. The aircraft is shot down in flames, leaving the pilot with horrific burns. The film is based on the [[The English Patient|novel of the same name]] by [[Michael Ondaatje]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://articles.latimes.com/1996-11-15/entertainment/ca-1931_1_english-patient |title='The English Patient' Travels Poetic Path to Wartime Love|first=Kenneth|last=Turan|date=15 November 1996|access-date=5 March 2019|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref>

A Tiger Moth, G-ANFM, piloted by former ATA pilot [[Joan Hughes]] MBE appears in the 1968 film ''[[Thunderbird 6]]''. During filming, the aircraft was flown under a motorway bridge over the M40 near High Wycombe, resulting in the prosecution of Hughes and the Production Director, Norman Foster.<ref>{{cite book|last1=La Rivière|first1=Stephen|author1-link=Stephen La Rivière|title=Filmed in Supermarionation: A History of the Future|year=2009|publisher=[[Hermes Press]]|location=Neshannock, Pennsylvania|isbn=978-1-932563-23-8}}</ref>

==de Havilland Vampire==
[[File:De Havilland DH-100 Vampire 2 ExCC.jpg|thumb|right|A [[de Havilland Vampire]]]]

[[De Havilland Vampire]]s appear in the 1954 British motion picture ''[[Conflict of Wings]]'', a drama about the conflict that arises when an RAF squadron based in Norfolk is allocated a small island to use as a range for low-level attack training only to encounter the protests of nearby villagers who want the island preserved as a bird sanctuary.<ref>Mackenzie, S.P. ''British War Films, 1939–45'', pp. 153–154. A&C Black Performing Arts Publishing, 2001.</ref>

Vampires appear in the 1966 novel ''[[Shooting Script]]'' by former RAF pilot and thriller writer [[Gavin Lyall]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19660505&id=yXIQAAAAIBAJ&pg=3958,3511572 |newspaper=[[The Free Lance–Star]] |location=Fredericksburg, Virginia |title=Book review: Whiz-bang Foreign Adventure |first=Miles A. |last=Smith |date=6 May 1966 |access-date=19 October 2009}}</ref>

The Vampire is central to the plot of the 1975 novella, ''[[The Shepherd]]'' by British novelist [[Frederick Forsyth]], the story of an RAF pilot attempting to fly home for Christmas from [[RAF Celle]], Germany, to [[RAF Lakenheath]] on Christmas Eve 1957. The fact that the DH.100 was not fitted with [[ejection seat]]s until about ten years later, and hence was a major challenge to bail out of, is an important element of the story.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-shepherd-edition-2017-1.4455219/fireside-al-maitland-reads-frederick-forsyth-s-the-shepherd-1.4458378 |title='Fireside' Al Maitland reads Frederick Forsyth's The Shepherd |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=December 22, 2017 |website=CBC Radio |publisher=[[CBC Radio One]] |access-date=December 22, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-50th-anniversary-special-friday-1.4903581 |title='As it Happens' 50th anniversary edition |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=November 16, 2018 |website=CBC Radio |publisher=[[CBC Radio One]] |access-date=November 17, 2018}} Audio at about 32:30.</ref>

==Douglas DC-2==
[[Douglas DC-2]], PH-AJU, "Uiver", race number 44, was depicted by [[Douglas DC-3]], VH-ANR, in the 1991 Australian mini-series ''[[The Great Air Race (miniseries)|The Great Air Race]]'', about the 1934 London to [[Melbourne]] [[MacRobertson Air Race|MacRobertson Trophy Air Race]].<ref name="GtAirRace62"/> It is also known as ''Half a World Away''.<ref name="OzSmlScn203"/>

==Douglas DC-3==
{{see also-text|[[#C-47 Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper / Dakota|C-47 Skytrain / Dakota]] section for military versions of the DC-3}}
[[File:Douglas C-47A G-DAKS G-AGHY Ruskin AS DUX 250482R edited-2.jpg|thumb|right|A [[Douglas DC-3]] painted in ''Ruskin Air Services'' fictional markings during filming at [[Duxford Airfield]] in 1982 for the British television series ''[[Airline (1982 TV series)|Airline]]''.]]

A [[Douglas DC-3|Douglas DC-3A]] of [[Central Airlines]] appears in the 1954 film ''[[Strategic Air Command (film)|Strategic Air Command]]'' as the transport that conveys a security check team into [[Carswell AFB]], Texas.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aeromovies.fr/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=505 |title=Strategic Air Command |website=Aeromovies.fr |access-date=23 May 2012 |language=fr}}</ref>

The 1961 episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' entitled [[The Arrival (The Twilight Zone)|"The Arrival"]] features a DC-3 on Flight 107, which arrives at its destination with no one on board. It originally aired 22 September 1961.{{sfnp|Zicree|1982}}

The chief character of the 1965 novel ''[[High Citadel]]'' by [[Desmond Bagley]] is an alcoholic former Korean War fighter pilot who flies a Douglas DC-3 for a small airline in a fictional Andean country in South America. He is forced at gunpoint by his co-pilot—a Communist agent—to crash-land the DC-3 at a remote abandoned mine in the Andes so that Communists planning a coup can capture and kill a politician travelling as a passenger.<ref name="Bagley"/> The 1966 suspense novel ''Flying Finish'' by [[Dick Francis]] features a DC-3 being used to transport race horces.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Francis |first1=Dick |title=Flying Finish |date=1966 |publisher=Michael Joseph |location=London |edition=1st}}</ref>

A DC-3 starred in the 1982 British television series ''[[Airline (1982 TV series)|Airline]]''. The aircraft used to depict the DC-3 of the fictional ''Ruskin Air Services'' was also used in the 1980s television series ''[[Tenko (TV series)|Tenko]]'' and the 2001 series ''[[Band of Brothers (TV miniseries)|Band of Brothers]]''.{{sfnp|Piercey|1984|p=33}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aces.aerial-filming.com/douglas.html |title=Douglas DC3 Dakota (C47) |website=Aces High |access-date=18 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521033034/http://aces.aerial-filming.com/douglas.html |archive-date=21 May 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the 1985 two-part episode of the television series ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]'' entitled "All For One", the four main characters (Thomas, Rick, T.C. and Higgins) fly from [[Hawai'i]] to [[Cambodia]] in a DC-3 (c/n N162E) to carry out a personal mission. Several scenes are filmed both inside and outside of this aircraft.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://magnum-mania.com/Episodes/Season5/All_For_One_1.html |website=Magnum Mania |title=All For One |access-date=16 June 2019}}</ref>

In the 1989 comedy film ''[[Major League (film)|Major League]]'', the hard-luck [[Cleveland Indians]] baseball team is "upgraded" to a DC-3 for their transportation to away games.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Major-League.html |title="Major League" Screenplay by David S. Ward, Shooting Draft |website=Internet Movie Script Database |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

In the 1994 film ''[[Richie Rich (film)|Richie Rich]]'', the Rich family own and pilot a DC-3, named "Billion Dollar One", which crashes in the Atlantic due to a bomb on board.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.airliners.net/photo/Douglas-DC-3(C)/1020546/&sid=b8baa3dd9133cda42e1f0edd9eef5e79 |title=Photos: Douglas DC-3(C) Aircraft Pictures |website=Airliners.net |date=20 March 2006 |access-date=7 May 2013}}</ref>

The DC-3 features in a chase scene in the 2008 [[James Bond]] film ''[[Quantum of Solace]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/artsandculture/3209360/Quantum-of-Solace-James-Bond-returns-to-Latin-America.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/artsandculture/3209360/Quantum-of-Solace-James-Bond-returns-to-Latin-America.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Quantum of Solace: James Bond returns to Latin America |first=Nigel |last=Richardson |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=17 October 2008 |location=London, UK |access-date=11 June 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

The 2012 [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] television series ''[[Arctic Air]]'' features a [[Yellowknife]]-based airline that relies on DC-3s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Winnipeg writer is flying high as "Arctic Air" launches on CBC Television |url=http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/scene/other/2012/01/09/jordan-wheeler/ |first=Jordan |last=Wheeler |date=9 January 2012 |website=CBC Manitoba |access-date=15 February 2012}}</ref>

The 2016 film ''[[Rules Don't Apply]]'' features a DC-3 in two sequences on land and one in air. [[Howard Hughes]] pilots the DC-3 in a risky manner while two other passengers are aboard, shutting off the engines in-air and performing a "proper glide".<ref>{{cite web |title=Deep Focus: Rules Don't Apply |website=Film Comment |url=https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/deep-focus-rules-dont-apply/ |first=Michael |last=Sragow |date=23 November 2016 |access-date=26 May 2017}}</ref>

==Douglas DC-4==
[[File:C-54landingattemplehof.jpg|right|thumb|[[Douglas C-54 Skymaster]] lands in Berlin during the [[Berlin Airlift]]]]

The [[Douglas DC-4]] appears in the [[Ernest K. Gann]] novel ''[[The High and the Mighty (novel)|The High and the Mighty]]''. A former USAF [[Douglas C-54 Skymaster]] operated by [[Transocean Airlines]] portrayed the Douglas DC-4 in the John Wayne 1954 [[The High and the Mighty (film)|film of the same name]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Shane |first=Bob |title=The Makings of 'The High and the Mighty': A Former Airline Pilot Remembers the Filming of an Aviation Classic |journal=Airpower |volume=36 |number=1 |date=January 2006}}</ref> Ironically, this airframe was lost over the Pacific on 28 March 1964 with an engine fire just as depicted in the film. There were no survivors of the nine "souls on board" and the wreckage was never found.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19640328-0 |title=Accident description – Douglas C-54A-10-DC |website=Aviation Safety Network |date=March 1964 |access-date=30 April 2010}}</ref>

==Douglas DC-8==
In the 1990 [[action film]] ''[[Die Hard 2]]'', a [[Douglas DC-8]] is given false landing instructions by terrorists and crash lands in a blizzard, resulting in fatalities to all on board. [[Industrial Light and Magic]] used a 23-foot long model to shoot the effects of the crash and explosion. Filming was done at a remote airstrip in the [[Mojave Desert]] of California. "However, shots of the passengers' frightened reactions to the initial impact, which had been shot on a set and originally cut into the movie, were so terrifying (made all the more authentic by preproduction research of [[Federal Aviation Administration]] test crashes and data from real aircraft crashes) that they were ultimately cut before the film's release." ILM constructed five DC-8 models for the production.{{sfnp|Cotta Vaz|Duignan|1996|pp=148–151}}

==EB-66 Destroyer==
The film ''[[Bat*21]]'' featured an EB-66 variant of the [[Douglas B-66 Destroyer]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZZUpAAAAIBAJ&pg=3170,3798432&dq=bat-21&hl=en |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130124150129/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZZUpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=N6cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3170,3798432&dq=bat-21&hl=en |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 January 2013 |title=Tale of an aging warrior's valor in Vietnam |last=Dean |first=Paul |date=15 November 1980 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=14 February 2010}}</ref> being shot down over North Vietnam in the beginning of the film.

==English Electric Lightning==
The 1976 children's book ''[[Thunder and Lightnings]]'' by [[Jan Mark]] is about the relationship of two boys – otherwise outsiders – who share an interest in aeroplanes, in particular the [[English Electric Lightning]]s flown by the local squadron. The author was awarded the [[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] in 1978 for the book.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jan-mark-523429.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612131832/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jan-mark-523429.html |archive-date=2008-06-12 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |title=Jan Mark: Prolific and distinctive children's writer who found her voice with her first book, ''Thunder and Lightnings'' (obituary) |last=Tucker |first=Nicholas |author-link=Nicholas Tucker |newspaper=The Independent |date=18 January 2006 |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jan/24/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries |title=Jan Mark: Leading children's writer with a soft spot for cats and a robust view of the book trade (obituary) |first1=David |last1=Fickling |author-link1=David Fickling |first2=Philip |last2=Pullman |author-link2=Philip Pullman |first3=Jon |last3=Appleton |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=23 January 2006 |location=London}}</ref>

==Eurocopter Tiger==
A [[Eurocopter Tiger|Eurocopter EC665 Tiger]] attack helicopter has a starring role in the 1995 [[James Bond]] film ''[[GoldenEye]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/landingpage/eurocopter%20tiger.html |title=Eurocopter Tiger |website=Flight Global |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618075115/http://www.flightglobal.com/landingpage/eurocopter%20tiger.html |archive-date=18 June 2009}}</ref>

Three Eurocopter EC665 Tigers save the day in the 2017 film ''[[Rescue Under Fire]]''.<ref name="auto2"/>

==Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma==
A [[Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma]] becomes the main protagonist of the film ''[[Rescue Under Fire]]''. The unit used for filming in the movie was the same as in the real events.<ref name="auto2"/>

==F2H Banshee==
Protagonist Lt. Harry Brubaker flew a [[McDonnell F2H Banshee]] in the 1953 [[James A. Michener]] novel ''[[The Bridges at Toko-ri (novel)|The Bridges at Toko-ri]]''. In the subsequent 1954 [[The Bridges at Toko-Ri|film adaptation]], his aircraft was changed to a [[Grumman F9F Panther]].<ref name="flight_deck">{{cite book |last=Mersky |first=Peter B. |title=From the Flight Deck: An Anthology of the Best Writing on Carrier Warfare |year=2003 |publisher=Potomac Books, Inc. |isbn=978-1-57488-433-3 |page=159}}</ref>

==F3F==
[[File:F3F - Ray Wagner Collection Photo (16089053335).jpg|thumb|[[Grumman F3F]]]]
''[[Flight Command]]'', released by [[MGM]] in 1940, featured the [[Grumman F3F]], filmed at [[NAS North Island]], San Diego, California. Flying by Frank Clarke and [[Paul Mantz]].<ref name="aerofilesFilmsF"/>

The 1941 [[Warner Bros.]] film ''[[Dive Bomber (film)|Dive Bomber]]'' showed Grumman F3Fs.<ref name="aerofilesFilmsD">{{cite web |url=http://www.aerofiles.com/film-d.html |title=Aviation Films – D |website=Aerofiles |access-date=8 May 2010}}</ref> F3F-2, BuNo ''0989'', '6-F-4', of VF-6, assigned to {{USS|Enterprise|CV-6|6}}, is one of the best-known F3F-2's due to the fact it is the aircraft that [[Fred MacMurray]] "crashed" in this movie.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://modelingmadness.com/review/preww2/cleaverf3f2.htm |title=Accurate Miniatures 1/48 F3F-2 |website=Modeling Madness |access-date=9 February 2014}}</ref> Filming began at [[NAS North Island]], San Diego, California, on 20 March 1941.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Farmer |first=James H. |title=Hollywood Goes to North Island NAS |journal=Air Classics |publisher=Challenge Publications |location=Chatsworth, California |date=September 1989 |volume=25 |number=9}}</ref>

==F-4 Phantom II==
[[File:QF-4.jpg|thumb|[[McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II|F-4 Phantom]]]]

[[United States Marine Corps|US Marine]] aviator Lt. Col. Wilbur "Bull" Meecham flew a [[McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II]] in the 1979 film ''[[The Great Santini]]'' starring [[Robert Duvall]] as Meecham.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oo-rah.com/store/seastories/ss33.asp |title=The Great Santini at MCAS Beaufort |last=Scoggins |first=Frank |website=OO-RAH.com |access-date=5 May 2011}}</ref>

The Gobots character Mach 3 and the Transformers character [[Fireflight (Transformers)|Fireflight]] both turn into F-4 Phantom IIs.<ref name="Schroeders"/>

In the 1988 film ''[[Iron Eagle II]]'', F-4s appear as Soviet MiGs. The aircraft were provided by the Israeli Air Force for the production.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Aloni |first1=Shlomo |last2=Avidror |first2=Zvi |title=Hammers – Israel's Long-Range Heavy Bomber Arm: The Story of 69 Squadron |year=2010 |publisher=Schiffer Publishing |location=Atglen, Pennsylvania |isbn=978-0-7643-3655-3 |pages=178–179}}</ref> 

==F4F Wildcat==
[[Grumman F4F Wildcat]]s were shown in the critical aerial battle scenes in the film ''[[Midway (1976 film)|Midway]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pDAcAAAAIBAJ&pg=2296,2553595&dq=aircraft+in+movies&hl=en |title=Making War for Movies |last=Kleiner |first=Dick |date=6 October 1975 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Press |access-date=19 January 2010}}</ref>

==F4U Corsair==
[[File:AU-1 Corsair in flight 1952.jpg|thumb|[[F4U Corsair]]]]

[[Vought F4U Corsair]]s featured in the latter part of the 1951 RKO war movie ''[[Flying Leathernecks]]'' which was directed by [[Nicholas Ray]] and starred [[John Wayne]] and [[Robert Ryan]]. The film's fictional Marine Air Corps unit exchange their older fighters for new F4Us as they support the drive across the Pacific in the latter stages of the war. For the film, the producers borrowed a number of flying F4Us which were then serving as trainers at the Marine Air Base at El Toro, California, and they also incorporated some wartime colour footage of F4Us taken during WW2.<ref>Carlson, Mark. ''Flying on Film: A Century of Aviation in the Movies, 1912-2012'', pp. 225-227. Bearmanor Media, 2012.</ref>

F4Us also featured in the 1952 [[Monogram Pictures|Monogram]] film ''[[Flat Top (film)|Flat Top]]'' which was directed by [[Lesley Selander]] and starred [[Sterling Hayden]]. In the film, Hayden plays Commander Dan Collier who takes command of a squadron of un-disciplined fighter pilots on board an aircraft carrier and is tasked with getting them combat-ready before the invasion of the Japanese-occupied Philippines in 1944. The film made extensive use of colour wartime footage of carrier-borne F4Us.<ref>Carlson, Mark. ''Flying on Film: A Century of Aviation in the Movies, 1912-2012'', pp. 224-225. Bearmanor Media, 2012.</ref>

The F4U Corsair was a regularly featured aircraft of [[VMF-214]] in the 1976–1978 television series ''[[Baa Baa Black Sheep (TV series)|Baa Baa Black Sheep]]'', based on the experiences of [[Pappy Boyington]]. The series was later renamed Black Sheep Squadron.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://oscnewsgazette.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5398&Itemid=9 |title=Warbird Part of Air Museum Exhibit |date=7 January 2010 |newspaper=[[Osceola News-Gazette]] |location=Kissimmee, Florida |access-date=11 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100111084629/http://oscnewsgazette.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5398&Itemid=9 |archive-date=11 January 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Computer-generated images of F4U Corsairs appear in the 2006 Second World War drama ''[[Flags of Our Fathers (film)|Flags of Our Fathers]]'' directed by [[Clint Eastwood]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailyaztec.com/2011/11/wwii-veteran-and-aztec-remembered/ |title=WWII veteran and Aztec remembered |first=Hutton |last=Marshall |date=14 November 2011 |website=The Daily Aztec |access-date=23 August 2012}}</ref>

An F4U Corsair named Skipper Riley (voiced by [[Stacy Keach]]) is one of the characters in Disney's animated TV series and films "[[Cars Toons#Episodes|Air Mater]]" (2011), ''[[Planes (film)|Planes]]'' (2013).<ref>{{cite news |last=Kirkland |first=Bruce |url=http://www.torontosun.com/2013/08/09/planes-lags-at-times-fails-to-soar |title='Planes' lags at times, fails to soar |newspaper=Toronto Sun |date=9 August 2013 |access-date=26 November 2013}}</ref>

The F4U Corsair is also featured in the 2022 Korean War drama film ''[[Devotion (2022 film)|Devotion]]''.<ref name=devotion_jetwhine>{{cite web |url=https://www.jetwhine.com/2021/02/devotion-bearcats-corsairs-real-moviemaking-oh-my/ |title=Devotion: Bearcats, Corsairs, & Real Moviemaking Oh My! |first=Scott |last=Spangler |website=JetWhine |date=22 February 2021 |access-date=13 June 2022}}</ref><ref name=EAA11-22>{{cite magazine |last=Busha |first=Jim |date=November 2022 |title=Bond of Brothers |url=https://cdn.coverstand.com/53731/764215/fb058ba9f90dacce5abcdcfddf3b8771cdc778e5.1.pdf |url-access=subscription |magazine=EAA Sport Aviation |location=Oshkosh, Wisconsin |publisher=[[Experimental Aircraft Association]] |access-date=November 7, 2022 |pages=52–63}}</ref><ref name=blacklabel>{{cite press release |last=Wiseman |first=Andreas |date=February 1, 2021 | url=https://www.jetwhine.com/2021/02/devotion-bearcats-corsairs-real-moviemaking-oh-my/ | title=Devotion: Bearcats, Corsairs, & Real Moviemaking Oh My! |publisher=Black Label Media |access-date=November 7, 2022}}</ref>

In the aviation comic strip "Chicken Wings" by Michael and Stefan Strasser, the rather incompetent (but in his own mind brilliant) pilot Chuck of the "Roost Air" flight charter company, is building his own F4U out of spare parts, acquired from an unknown place, and with tools pilfered from his hard-tested flight mechanic, Julio.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chickenwingscomics.com/comic/corsair-spaghetti/ |title=Corsair Spaghetti | date=9 November 2023 |website=Chicken Wings |access-date=18 November 2023}}</ref>

==F-5 Freedom Fighter/Tiger II==
[[File:F-5B 602TFS BienHoa 1966.jpg|right|thumb|[[F-5 Freedom Fighter]]]]

[[Northrop F-5]]s played the part of the fictional MiG-28 enemy aircraft in the 1986 film ''[[Top Gun]]''.<ref name="Lamar">{{cite magazine|last=Lamar|first=Jacob|date=24 November 1986|title=The Pentagon Goes Hollywood|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,962933-1,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070716215147/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,962933-1,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 July 2007|magazine=Time|url-access=subscription|access-date=17 January 2010}}</ref><ref name="Lindsey_Top_Gun">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/27/movies/top-gun-ingenious-dogfights.html?&pagewanted=all |title=Top Gun: Ingenious Dogfights |last=Lindsey |first=Robert |date=27 May 1986 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=19 January 2010}}</ref>

==F5F Skyrocket==
The sole [[Grumman XF5F Skyrocket|Grumman XF5F-1 Skyrocket]], which never entered production or squadron service, was incorporated as the primary mount for [[Blackhawk (DC Comics)|Blackhawk]] and the Blackhawk Squadron in wartime editions of the anthology series ''Military Comics'' published by [[Quality Comics]], the first issue of which was published in August 1941. The long-running title was later acquired by [[DC Comics]], with the squadron upgrading to more modern types.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jones |first=Lloyd S. |title=U.S. Naval Fighters |location=Fallbrook, California |publisher=Aero Publishers |year=1977 |isbn=978-0-8168-9254-9 |page=167}}</ref>

==F6F Hellcat==
[[File:Grumman F6F-5 NY Reserve (4552403064).jpg|thumb|right|[[Grumman F6F Hellcat|Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat]]]]
[[Grumman F6F Hellcat]]s appeared in the 1951 motion picture ''[[Flying Leathernecks]]'' directed by [[Nicholas Ray]] and starring [[John Wayne]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.grummanpark.org/content/grumman-products-movies |title=Grumman Products in the Movies |website=Grumman Memorial Park |access-date=6 August 2012}}</ref> One of the pilots who flew aircraft for the aerial scenes in the production was Marine Captain Phil De Groot who, after completing work on the film, flew in the Korean War and was wounded in action. The production was filmed at a small airstrip at [[Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton|Camp Pendleton]], California. De Groot said, "They put some sand all over the strip, and some palm trees, and built a little pagoda there, simulating Guadalcanal".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.goldengatewing.org/speakers.php?ID=6 |title=Guest Speaker Article: Maj. Phil De Groot USMC |website=Golden Gate Wing, [[Commemorative Air Force|CAF]] |date=27 January 2005 |access-date=6 August 2012}}</ref>

F6Fs appear in the 1964 novel ''The Last Tallyho'' by [[Richard L. Newhafer|Richard Newhafer]], a work inspired by the author's real-life experiences as a Hellcat pilot during WW2.<ref>Reynolds, Clark. ''The Fast Carriers: The Forging of an Air Navy'', pp. 435–436. Naval Institute Press, 2015.</ref>

F6Fs appear in the 1978 novel ''[[Wingmen (novel)|Wingmen]]'' by Ensan Case, a novel depicting US Navy fighter pilots serving on a fictional aircraft carrier- the 'USS ''Constitution'''. The carrier's fighter squadron- VF-20- takes part in the Pacific War 1943-1944 and it centres on the experiences of two of its members- ensign Fred Trusteau and the squadron-commander, Lt Jack Hardigan.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.glbtqarchive.com/essays/patterson_appreciation.pdf|title =The Best American War Novel about Love between Men: An Appreciation of Ensan Case's Wingmen |access-date= 5 July 2019|last= Patterson|first =Eric |work= GLTBQ Archive|date= 8 May 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190329103637/http://www.glbtqarchive.com/essays/patterson_appreciation.pdf|archive-date= 29 March 2019}}</ref>

Computer-generated images of F6F Hellcats appear in the 2002 Second World War drama ''[[Windtalkers]]'' directed by [[John Woo]] and starring [[Nicolas Cage]].<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.kodak.com/US/plugins/acrobat/en/motion/newsletters/inCamera/oct2001/windtalkers.pdf |title=Windtalkers, a 'soulful' story about friendship during war |journal=InCamera |date=October 2001 |access-date=6 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907074010/http://www.kodak.com/US/plugins/acrobat/en/motion/newsletters/inCamera/oct2001/windtalkers.pdf |archive-date=7 September 2008}}</ref>

==F8F Bearcat==
The [[F8F Bearcat]] are to appear in the 2022 Korean War drama film ''[[Devotion (2022 film)|Devotion]]''.<ref name=devotion_jetwhine/><ref name=EAA11-22/><ref name=blacklabel/> Two flyable Bearcats were used.<ref name=EAA11-22/><ref name=blacklabel/> Footage of actors flying the aircraft was created using a two-seat [[Hawker Sea Fury]] with its rear seat modified to resemble a Bearcat cockpit and visible portions of the airframe painted like a [[VF-32]] Bearcat.<ref name=EAA11-22/>

==F9F Panther==
[[File:XF9F-3 XF9F-2 NAN12-48.jpg|right|thumb|[[Grumman F9F Panther]]s]]

The [[Grumman F9F Panther|Grumman F9F-2 Panther]] was prominently featured in the 1954 films ''[[Men of the Fighting Lady]]'' and ''[[The Bridges at Toko-Ri]]''. The latter film was based on the 1953 [[The Bridges at Toko-ri (novel)|novel of the same name]], whose protagonist flew a [[McDonnell F2H Banshee]].<ref name="flight_deck"/>

Footage of the F9F-5 Panther [[ramp strike]] accident of 23 June 1951 aboard {{USS|Midway|CV-41|6}} has been used in several films, including ''[[Men of the Fighting Lady]]'', ''[[Midway (1976 film)|Midway]]'' (1976), and ''[[The Hunt for Red October (film)|The Hunt For Red October]]'' (1990). The footage shows Commander George Chamberlain Duncan crash BuNo 125228, then the forward fuselage breaking away and rolling down the deck. Duncan survived the crash.<ref>{{cite web |title=Duncan's F9F |url=http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/F9F-Duncan.htm |access-date=25 November 2010 |website=Check Six}}</ref>

==F-14 Tomcat==
[[File:Grumman F-14A Tomcat of VF-84 in flight, circa in 1978.jpg|thumb|left|[[F-14 Tomcat]]]]

The [[Grumman F-14 Tomcat]] was central to the 1986 film ''[[Top Gun]]''.<ref name="Air_and_Space" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/14958926 |title=Navy retires F-14 'Top Gun' jet |date=22 September 2006 |agency=Associated Press |website=NBC News |access-date=11 January 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2009/0721/inside-the-news-the-f-22-raptor-warplane |title=Inside the news: The F-22 Raptor warplane |last=Shaer |first=Matthew |date=21 July 2009 |website=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |access-date=16 January 2010}}</ref> The U.S. Navy provided F-14s at $7,600 per flight hour for a total bill of $886,000 (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|886000|1986|r=-3}}}} today{{Inflation-fn|US}}).<ref name="Halloran">{{cite web |last=Halloran |first=Richard |date=31 August 1986 |title=Pentagon can shoot down film details |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=l5sMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6815,7170538&dq=aircraft+in+movies&hl=en |access-date=19 January 2010 |newspaper=The New York Times}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref><ref name="Lindsey_Top_Gun" /> The aviation-themed film created such interest in naval aviation that the Navy set up recruitment desks outside some theaters.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HW4pAAAAIBAJ&pg=6799,2509554&dq=military+hollywood&hl=en |title=The Pentagon is a big help for the right military movie |last=Vartabedian |first=Ralph |date=10 September 1986 |newspaper=[[Gainesville Sun]] |location=Gainesville, Florida |page=7B |access-date=17 January 2010}}</ref> The F-14 also appears in the climax of the 2022 sequel ''[[Top Gun: Maverick]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bertorelli |first=Paul |date=28 May 2022 |title='Top Gun Maverick': Yeah, Worth The Wait |url=https://www.avweb.com/insider/top-gun-maverick-yeah-worth-the-wait/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220531005612/https://www.avweb.com/insider/top-gun-maverick-yeah-worth-the-wait/ |archive-date=31 May 2022 |access-date=31 May 2022 |work=AvWeb}}</ref>

Two F-14As of [[VF-84 (1955-95)|VF-84]] from {{USS|Nimitz}} appeared in the 1980 film ''[[The Final Countdown (film)|The Final Countdown]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.almansur.com/jollyrogers/jollytomcats.htm |title=The Infamous Tomcats of VF-84 |website=almansur.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716032424/http://www.almansur.com/jollyrogers/jollytomcats.htm |archive-date=16 July 2015}}</ref> Four VF-84 planes appeared in the 1996 release ''[[Executive Decision]]'',<ref name="Kemper">{{cite news |url=http://articles.dailypress.com/1996-09-08/features/9609060045_1_pentagon-fighter-recruitment/2 |title=The Military And the Movies |last=Kemper |first=Bob |date=8 September 1996 |newspaper=[[Daily Press (Virginia)|Daily Press]] |location=Newport News, Virginia |page=2 |access-date=11 January 2010 |archive-date=10 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810173835/http://articles.dailypress.com/1996-09-08/features/9609060045_1_pentagon-fighter-recruitment/2 |url-status=dead}}</ref> the Jolly Rogers' final film appearance before being disestablished.

The military legal drama TV series ''[[JAG (TV series)|JAG]]'' (1995–2005) featured lead character [[Harmon Rabb]], a Tomcat pilot-turned-lawyer,<ref name="Air_and_Space" /> and recurring scenes with the Tomcat.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dailynews.com/2007/03/08/fighter-jet-used-on-jag-seized/ |title=Fighter jet used on 'JAG' seized |last=O'Rourke |first=Judy |date=2007-03-08 |website= |publisher=[[Los Angeles Daily News]] |access-date=2022-07-16}}</ref>

The Tomcat was also a central part of the [[Stephen Coonts]] novel ''Final Flight''.<ref name="Air_and_Space" />

The F-14 is the primary focus of the 1987 [[WMS Industries|Williams]] pinball machine "F-14 Tomcat"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=804 |title=F-14 Tomcat |website=The Internet Pinball Database |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref> and the ''[[After Burner]]'' video game series by [[Sega]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lendino |first1=Jamie |title=Attract Mode: The Rise and Fall of Coin-Op Arcade Games |date=27 September 2020 |publisher=Steel Gear Press |page=330 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d6wCEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA331}}</ref>

==F-15 Eagle==
[[File:F-15E 391st USAF 081215-F-7823A-931.jpg|right|thumb|[[McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle|F-15 Strike Eagle]]]]

The [[McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle]] is one of the most recognized modern fighters; this has led to, or perhaps even been aided by, its common use in children's toys. [[Leader-1]] of the [[Gobots]] turns into an F-15.<ref>{{cite journal |title=YS Preview: Challenge of the Gobots – Come in, Leader-1 |journal=Your Sinclair |volume=1 |issue=20 |page=20 |url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=YourSinclair/Issue20/Pages/YourSinclair2000020.jpg}}</ref> The Transformers toy line and media have featured numerous characters who turn into F-15 Eagles, the most notable being the villain [[Starscream]] in 1984<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1000438,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201122210/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1000438,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 December 2008 |title=Action Figures From The '80s |last=Briese |first=Beau |date=July 2001 |magazine=Time |access-date=9 December 2009}}</ref> and a group of similar Decepticons, the [[Seekers (Transformers)|Seekers]]: [[Acid Storm]], [[Thundercracker]], [[Skywarp]] and [[Sunstorm (Transformers)|Sunstorm]]. Although a completely unrelated design to the others, the Aerialbot Air Raid also disguises himself as an F-15.{{sfnp|Bellomo|2007|p=85}}

F-15s appear in the 1980 novel ''Eagles'' by M. H. Davis, a work which portrays pilots of the USAF.<ref name="Bright73">{{cite journal |last= Bright |first= Charles D. |title= Aviation Literature — A Changing Art |journal= Aerospace Historian |volume= 31 |number= 1 |pages= 68–73 |publisher= Air-Force Historical Foundation |date= March 1984 |jstor= 44523920}}</ref>

The F-15 is featured in the 1997 film ''[[Air Force One (film)|Air Force One]]''.<ref name="Times-AFO"/> The Eagle was also shown in advertisements for the 2000 film ''[[Thirteen Days (film)|Thirteen Days]]''. The ads were withdrawn when it came to the attention of [[New Line Cinema]] that the F-15, which first flew in 1972, was out of place for a film set in 1962. This was problematic for New Line, who had termed the film a "by-the-numbers recreation" and "close to perfect". A New Line spokesman said the advertisement was created by an outside agency.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/13/us/ads-for-missile-crisis-movie-are-pulled-because-of-errors.html |title=Ads for Missile-Crisis Movie Are Pulled Because of Errors |date=13 January 2001 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=16 January 2010}}</ref>

F-15Js and F-15DJs of the [[Japan Air Self-Defense Force|JASDF]] appear prominently in the 2004 film ''[[Ultraman: The Next]]''. The film's protagonist, Shunichi Maki, is a prestigious pilot of the F-15, and encounters the enigmatic [[Ultraman Nexus|Ultraman 'The Next']] while flying the aircraft.<ref>[http://tokusatsunetwork.com/2015/02/tokunet-film-club-ultraman-next/ TokuNet Film Club: Ultraman The Next], Tokusatsu Network</ref>

The F-15 has appeared in numerous video games, including the 1985 [[Microprose]] title ''[[F-15 Strike Eagle (video game)|F-15 Strike Eagle]]''<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Battles |first=Hosea Jr. |title=F-15 Strike Eagle |url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_4.6.pdf |magazine=[[Computer Gaming World]] |page=39 |publisher=Golden Empire Publications |date=December 1984 |access-date= 9 August 2017}}</ref> and its two sequels, 1989's ''[[F-15 Strike Eagle II]]''<ref>{{moby game|id=/f-15-strike-eagle-ii|name=''F-15 Strike Eagle II''}}</ref> and 1992's ''[[F-15 Strike Eagle III]]''.<ref>{{moby game|id=/f-15-strike-eagle-iii|name=''F-15 Strike Eagle III''}}</ref> F-15 also appears in three of ''[[Jane's Combat Simulations]]'' games: 1998's ''[[Jane's F-15|F-15]]''<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/PCPowerplay-025-1998-06/page/n71/mode/2up |title=Jane's F-15 |author=Lindgren, Ian |magazine=[[PC PowerPlay]] |publisher=[[nextmedia|Next Media Pty Ltd]] |issue=25 |date=June 1998 |pages=72–74 |access-date=August 26, 2021}}</ref> and ''[[Jane's IAF: Israeli Air Force|IAF]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gamespot.com/simulation/israelaf/review.html |title=GameSpot: Israeli Air Force Review |date=2000-12-11 |access-date=2017-03-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001211063500/http://www.gamespot.com/simulation/israelaf/review.html |archive-date=2000-12-11}}</ref> and 1999's ''[[Jane's USAF|USAF]]''.<ref name=pcgw>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000816131032/http://www.gamespot.co.uk/pc.gamespot/simulation/usaf_uk/review.html |url=http://www.gamespot.co.uk/pc.gamespot/simulation/usaf_uk/review.html |title=''Jane's USAF'' Review |author=Jackson, Rowan |date=February 4, 2000 |work=[[PC Gaming World]] |archive-date=August 16, 2000 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==F-16 Fighting Falcon==
[[File:F-16 CJ Fighting Falcon.jpg|thumb|F-16 Fighting Falcon]]

A number of video games have featured the [[General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon]]: the ''[[Falcon (series)|Falcon]]'' series (1984-2005), ''[[F-16 Combat Pilot]]'' (1989), ''[[F-16 Multirole Fighter]]'' (1998), ''[[F-16 Aggressor]]'' (1999) and many others.<ref>{{cite web |title=Aircraft: F-16 Fighting Falcon |url=https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/aircraft-f-16-fighting-falcon/offset,0/so,1d/ |website=[[MobyGames]] |publisher=Blue Flame Labs |access-date=16 April 2020}}</ref>

The Transformers [[Aerialbot]] Skydive and Decepticon Dreadwind disguise themselves as F-16 Fighting Falcons.{{sfnp|Bellomo|2007|pp=87, 199}} The Transformers character [[Needlenose]] disguises himself as an F-16XL.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.transformers-universe.com/include.php?path=content/articles.php&contentid=2160 |title=G1 Needlenose |author=Philip S. |website=Transformers Universe |access-date=13 January 2016}}</ref>

The Falcon was one of the stars of the 1986 film ''[[Iron Eagle]]''. The US Air Force refused to assist with production of the film because it found the plot about a teenager flying an F-16 into a foreign country to be "a little off the wall".<ref name="Halloran"/>

The 1986 action-adventure romantic comedy film ''[[The Jewel of the Nile]]'' featured a brutal dictator's personal F-16 as the key element in the protagonists (played by [[Kathleen Turner]] and [[Michael Douglas]]) escaping from a fortified town.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Jewel of the Nile |journal=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |url=http://www.afi.com/members/Catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=57723 |publisher=American Film Institute}}</ref>

The aircraft was also featured in the [[HBO]] 1992 production ''[[Afterburn (film)|Afterburn]]''. A dramatization of true events, the F-16 was the subject of a protracted legal battle over the safety of the design.<ref>{{cite news |last=O'Connor |first=John J. |title=Review/Television; Pilot Error? A Widow Won't Accept the Verdict |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/02/arts/review-television-pilot-error-a-widow-won-t-accept-the-verdict.html |access-date=4 January 2012 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=2 June 1992}}</ref>

The F-16 was featured in the 2002 film ''[[The Sum of All Fears (film)|The Sum of All Fears]]''.<ref name="Seelye"/>

Starting in 2007, the F-16 became one of two aircraft (along with the [[Cirrus SR22]]) to be featured in [[Google Earth Flight Simulator]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2009/08/planes_for_google_earth_flight_simu.html |title=Planes For Google Earth Flight Simulator &#124; Google Earth Blog |date=11 August 2009 |publisher=Gearthblog.com |access-date=19 November 2017}}</ref>

==F/A-18 Hornet==
The [[McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet]] appears in the 1994 film ''[[Clear and Present Danger (film)|Clear and Present Danger]]'' which was directed by [[Phillip Noyce]]. The jet drops a [[laser-guided bomb]] on a car at a drug lord's villa, being laser designated by a special forces team.<ref name="BoeingF-18">{{cite web |url=http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/fa18/fa1820/movie.htm |title=F/A-18 Hornet Twentieth Anniversary of First Flight – On the Big Screen |website=Boeing.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029172301/http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/fa18/fa1820/movie.htm |archive-date=29 October 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the 1996 [[Michael Bay]]-directed film ''[[The Rock (film)|The Rock]]'', F/A-18s attack the prison on [[Alcatraz Island]] in the final scenes.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://reviews.cnet.com/pc-games/f-a-18-precision/1707-9696_7-30983739.html |title=F/A-18 Precision Strike Fighter (PC) |author=CBS Interactive |date=July 2004 |website=CNET |access-date=14 June 2011}}</ref>

The F/A-18 Hornet was prominently featured in the 1996 film ''[[Independence Day (1996 film)|Independence Day]]'' and was filmed using F/A-18 squadrons belonging to the 3rd Marine Corps Aircraft Wing at El Toro and Miramar, in California.<ref name="BoeingF-18"/>

F/A-18A Hornets play a crucial role in the climax of the 1998 film [[Godzilla (1998 film)|''Godzilla'']], in which the planes first destroy the Baby Godzillas in [[Madison Square Garden]] by demolishing the building with [[Harpoon (missile)|AGM-84 Harpoon]] missiles, then kill [[Godzilla]] himself by firing additional Harpoon missiles at the monster after he became entangled in the cables of [[Brooklyn Bridge]].<ref name="BoeingF-18"/>

The F/A-18 Hornet appeared briefly in the 2003 film ''[[Tears of the Sun]]'' in the final, climactic battle, helping to save the surviving SEAL team members.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.lasvegasmercury.com/2003/MERC-Mar-06-Thu-2003/20806823.html |title=Willis in good action hero form with Tears of the Sun |date=6 March 2003 |newspaper=The Las Vegas Mercury |access-date=17 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205005827/http://www.lasvegasmercury.com/2003/MERC-Mar-06-Thu-2003/20806823.html |archive-date=5 December 2008}}</ref>

==F/A-18E/F Super Hornet==
The aircraft appears in the 2000 video game ''[[Jane's F/A-18|F/A-18]],'' part of ''[[Jane's Combat Simulations]]'' series.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Farmer |first1=Doug |title=Jane's F/A-18 review |url=http://archive.gamespy.com/legacy/reviews/fa18_a.shtm |website=[[GameSpy]] |publisher=[[IGN]] |access-date=23 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051204011048/http://archive.gamespy.com/legacy/reviews/fa18_a.shtm |archive-date=4 December 2005 |date=23 February 2000 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The two-seater [[Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet|F/A-18F Super Hornet]] was featured in the 2001 film ''[[Behind Enemy Lines (2001 film)|Behind Enemy Lines]]'', directed by [[John Moore (director)|John Moore]] and starring [[Owen Wilson]] and [[Gene Hackman]]. The plot begins with a Super Hornet being shot down over [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archives.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/29/review.enemy.lines/index.html |title='Enemy Lines' slam-bang silliness |last=Tatara |first=Paul |date=29 November 2001 |website=CNN |access-date=7 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218204234/http://archives.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/29/review.enemy.lines/index.html |archive-date=18 December 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the 2013 Disney animated film ''[[Planes (film)|Planes]]'', the characters Bravo and Echo are based on the F/A-18E Super Hornet.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/03/25/planes-dane-cook/1998599/ |title=Look! Up in the sky! It's an exclusive peek at 'Planes'! |newspaper=USA Today |date=25 March 2013 |first=Bryan |last=Alexander |access-date=21 June 2013}}</ref>

F/A-18E and -F Super Hornets appear in the 2022 film ''[[Top Gun: Maverick]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-za/entertainment/celebrity/tom-cruise-surprises-fans-at-comic-con-and-debuts-the-first-trailer-for-top-gun-maverick/ar-AAExqv7?li=BBqg4eh|title=Tom Cruise Surprises Fans at Comic-Con and Debuts the First Trailer for Top Gun: Maverick|website=www.msn.com}}</ref>

==F-20 Tigershark==
The [[Northrop F-20 Tigershark]] appears a number of times in [[Kaoru Shintani]]'s manga/animated franchise ''[[Area 88]]'', as a personal unit of main character Shin Kazama.<ref>Shintani, Kaoru. ''Area 88 Vol. 3''. Shonen Sunday Wide Comics, 1990.</ref><ref>''Area 88. Act 2: Requirements of Wolves''. Studio Pierrot, 1985–1986.</ref>

Although the F-20 never entered service, in [[Barrett Tillman]]'s 1991 novel ''Warriors'', the [[Royal Saudi Air Force]] orders over a hundred of them. The RSAF assigns the fighter to select pilots who graduate from a localized version of Top Gun established by former USAF and USN pilots. The bigger plot of the novel involves the Saudi pilots joining a pan-Arab attack against Israel.<ref>{{cite book|last=Tilmann |first=Barrett |title=Warriors |publisher=Bantam Books |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-55334-881-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/warriors00till}}</ref>

==F-22 Raptor==
[[File:F-22 4018.jpg|right|thumb|[[F-22 Raptor]]]]

After appearing briefly in the 2003 ''[[Hulk (film)|Hulk]]'' film, the F-22 made its major Hollywood debut in the 2007 film ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' and its [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen|2009 sequel]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Miles |first=Donna |url=http://www.af.mil/News/Features/Display/tabid/273/Article/143457/movie-makers-team-with-military-to-create-realism.aspx |title=Movie makers team with military to create realism |agency=American Forces Press Service |publisher=United States Air Force |date=21 June 2007 |access-date=28 May 2013}}</ref> as the form taken by the [[Decepticon#2007 film|Decepticon]] character [[Starscream#Live-action films|Starscream]] in addition to numerous USAF fighters that engaged during the initial and climactic battles. The film crew was allowed to film actual Raptors in flight, unlike previous [[computer-generated imagery|computer-generated]] appearances, because of the military's support of director [[Michael Bay]]. The Raptors were filmed at [[Edwards Air Force Base]].<ref>Michael Bay's DVD audio commentary for ''Transformers'', 2007, Paramount/DreamWorks.</ref>

Toys released for Starscream were replica F-22 Raptor models. These models were reused for other characters in the line, like [[Thundercracker]], [[Skywarp]] and [[Ramjet (Transformers)|Ramjet]], that also turned into F-22 Raptors.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/83757.pdf |title=Claw Slash Ramjet |website=[[Hasbro]] |year=2007 |access-date=9 December 2009}}</ref>

Although the live-action 2007 film ''Transformers'' made Starscream the best-known Transformer that turns into an F-22, there were other F-22 Transformers before it. For instance the 1997 ''[[Machine Wars]]'' versions of [[Megatron]] and Megaplex transformed into F-22s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/BW/MW/index.html |title=Transformers Machine Wars |last=Vandom |first=D. |website=Dave's Transformers Page |date=April 1997 |access-date=4 January 2010}}</ref>

The real Raptor made its next big screen appearance in ''[[Iron Man (2008 film)|Iron Man]]'', in which a Raptor call sign "Whiplash 1" lost its left wing during a mid-air collision with the Iron Man armor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.craveonline.com/culture/155832-the-f22-raptor-heads-to-the-screen |title=The F22 Raptor heads to the screen |date=25 September 2007 |website=[[CraveOnline]] |access-date=17 January 2010}} {{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>

In the 2013 film ''[[Olympus Has Fallen]]'', computer animation was used to depict F-22 Raptors intercepting an armed [[AC-130]] attacking Washington, D.C.; two F-22s are shot down before a third hits the AC-130 with a missile, causing it to crash.<ref name="Olympus_Has_Fallen"/>

The plane is the subject of a flight-simulation video game, ''[[F-22 Interceptor]]'', which was released by [[Electronic Arts]] and [[Ingram Entertainment]] for the [[Sega Mega Drive]] console in 1991.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.meanmachinesmag.co.uk/issue/14/mean_machines_issue_14.php |title=F-22 Interceptor |date=November 1991 |publisher=Mean Machines}}</ref>

The F-22 Raptor, specifically the F-22A variant, is a major aircraft in the ''[[Ace Combat]]'' series, being prominently featured on the box art of several entries and being usable in a majority of the games in the series; one appearance is in ''[[Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown|7: Skies Unknown]]'', which displays the F-22 on its box and used it in pre-release marketing.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-01-09|title=Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown 'F-22A' trailer|url=https://www.gematsu.com/2019/01/ace-combat-7-skies-unknown-f-22a-trailer|access-date=2021-10-15|website=Gematsu|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-12-18|title=Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Rides the Bleeding Edge with F-22A Raptor Trailer|url=https://twinfinite.net/2018/12/ace-combat-7-f22-trailer/|access-date=2021-10-15|website=Twinfinite|language=en-US}}</ref> The [[Lockheed Martin FB-22|FB-22]] also appears in several other games in the series, starting with ''[[Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War|5: The Unsung War]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ortiz|first=Miguel|title=The F-22 Raptor almost had a stealth bomber sibling|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/the-f-22-raptor-almost-had-a-stealth-bomber-sibling-2020-11|url-status=live|access-date=2021-10-15|website=Business Insider|language=en-US|quote=However, disappointed aviation fans still have the opportunity to fly the FB-22 and experience the 'next-generation stealth bomber that could have been' in the popular hybrid arcade-style flight simulator 'Ace Combat.' The FB-22 is featured as a flyable aircraft in 'Ace Combat 5,' 'Ace Combat X,' 'Ace Combat Joint Assault,' and 'Ace Combat Infinity.'|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201106001351/https://www.businessinsider.com/the-f-22-raptor-almost-had-a-stealth-bomber-sibling-2020-11 |archive-date=2020-11-06}}</ref>

==F-35 Lightning II==
[[File:F-35A flight (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|[[Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II]] ]]

The first major film appearance of a representation of a [[Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II]] was 2006's ''[[Superman Returns]]''. During this film, a pair of F-35A fighters escorted the modified [[Boeing 777]] mothership for an experimental [[NASA]] [[spaceplane]]. This visualization was a combination of an actual cockpit and [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] for the aircraft in flight.<ref name="SupermanReturns"/>

The next major film appearance of an F-35 was in ''[[Live Free or Die Hard]]'' (released as ''Die Hard 4.0'' outside North America) in 2007. The film used a combination of a full-scale model and CGI effects.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Gray |first=Simon |title=One-Man Riot Squad |journal=American Cinematographer |volume=88 |issue=7 |date=July 2007 |page=32}}</ref>

The Transformers character of the Autobot [[Breakaway (Transformers)#Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen|Breakaway]] and its redeco the Decepticon [[Thrust (Transformers)#Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen|Thrust]] from the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' toy both disguise themselves as F-35s. Breakaway appears as a playable character in the 2009 ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (video game)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' video game.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bwtf.com/toyreviews/rotf/deluxe/breakaway |title=Revenge of the Fallen: Breakaway Toy Review |last=Yee |first=Benson |date=May 2009 |website=Ben's World of Transformers |access-date=20 February 2010 |archive-date=7 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090907105350/http://www.bwtf.com/toyreviews/rotf/deluxe/breakaway |url-status=dead}}</ref>

F-35s are depicted in the 2012 film ''[[The Avengers (2012 film)|The Avengers]]''. The film was originally intended to include real F-35s, but the [[United States Department of Defense]] objected to the depiction of F-22s and F-35s as under the control of [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]], a covert, "extra-governmental" organization whose loyalties are unclear, so CGI aircraft were substituted instead.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Pentagon-Bails-Avengers-Because-Plot-Wasn-t-Realistic-30805.html |title=Pentagon Bails on the Avengers Because The Plot Wasn't Realistic |website=CinemaBlend.com |date=7 May 2012 |access-date=22 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Ackerman |first=Spencer |url=https://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/05/avengers-military/ |title=Pentagon Quit The Avengers Because of Its 'Unreality' |date=5 July 2012 |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |access-date=22 May 2012}}</ref>

[[Hal Jordan]] and [[Carol Ferris]] fly F-35s in a simulated [[dogfight]] against the [[UCAV]]s Carol's company is trying to sell to the US Department of Defense in the 2011 film ''[[Green Lantern (film)|Green Lantern]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Ryan |first=Mike |url=http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/digital/fact-vs-fiction/green-lantern-how-realistic-is-ryan-reynolds-as-a-test-pilot |title=Green Lantern: How Realistic Is Ryan Reynolds As A Test Pilot? |journal=[[Popular Mechanics]] |date=17 June 2011}}</ref>

A squadron of F-35s engages [[General Zod]]'s ship in the 2013 film ''[[Man of Steel (film)|Man of Steel]]''.<ref name="McElwee06May13"/>

==F-84 Thunderjet, Thunderstreak==
For the 1955 biographical film ''[[The McConnell Story]]'' about [[Flying ace|ace]] [[Joseph C. McConnell]], eight [[Republic F-84]]s of the [[614th Fighter-Bomber Squadron]] donned dark blue paint with red stars to portray [[MiG-15]]s doing mock battle for the cameras with [[F-86 Sabre]]s of the [[366th Fighter Wing|366th Fighter-Bomber Squadron]], both units based at [[Alexandria AFB]], Louisiana. Air Defense Command headquarters notified its pilots in January 1955 that the mock MiGs would be operating over portions of the southwestern US.<ref>Associated Press, "Don't Shoot at Those MiGs! - They're Disguised F84s Flying for Movie". ''The Sun-Telegram'', San Bernardino, California, Sunday 9 January 1955, Volume VIII, Number 40, p. 1.</ref>

==F-86 Sabre==
[[File:F86A Sabre - Shuttleworth Military Pageant June 2013 (9177514860).jpg|thumb|right|[[North American F-86 Sabre|F-86A Sabre]]]]
The [[North American F-86 Sabre]] appears in the 1956 novel ''[[The Hunters (novel)|The Hunters]]'' by [[James Salter]],<ref name="theparisreview1">{{cite journal |url=http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/03/29/the-hunters/ |title=The Hunters |first=Geoff |last=Dyer |journal=[[The Paris Review]] |date=29 March 2011 |access-date=10 October 2012}}</ref> and the ''[[The Hunters (1958 film)|1958 film of the same name]]'', set in Korea, features [[North American F-86 Sabre]]s.<ref name="aerofilesFilmsH">{{cite web |url=http://www.aerofiles.com/film-h.html |title=Aviation Films – H |website=Aerofiles |access-date=8 May 2010}}</ref>

F-86s appear in the 1957 junior fiction novel ''Sabre Pilot'' by [[Stephen W. Meader]] about a youngster named Kirk Owen who enlists in the USAF and serves as a fighter pilot in the Korean War.<ref>Aviation Bookshelf. ''Flying''. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. January, 1957. Vol 60, No 1. p. 81.</ref>

F-86s were a feature in the 1958 film ''[[Jet Attack]]'' which was directed by [[Edward L. Cahn]] and starred [[John Agar]] and [[Audrey Totter]]. The film, also released as ''Jet Alert'' and ''Through Hell to Glory'', was a drama set in the Korean War about a pair of pilots who parachute behind North Korean lines to rescue a captured scientist. The film, a low budget production, relied heavily on stock footage of F-86s for the aerial scenes.<ref>Beck, Simon D. ''The Aircraft-Spotter's Film and Television Companion''. McFarland Publishers, 2016. p-129.</ref>

F-86s appear in the 1959 novel ''MiG Alley'' by Robert Eunson which portrays a pilot Captain Homer 'Mac' McCullough who flies F-86s during the Korean War and is frustrated at being forbidden to engage enemy MiGs beyond the Yalu River.<ref>Merritt, Jonathan C. ''The Remembered War: The Korean War in American Culture, 1953–1995'', pp. 46-47. University of Alabama, 2017.</ref>

[[Desmond Bagley]]'s 1965 novel ''[[High Citadel]]'' features F-86 Sabres, which make up the frontline equipment of the air force of the fictional South American country in which the book is set. There are four squadrons of Sabres; two are loyal to the current corrupt government; one is secretly loyal to a reformist politician who is returning from exile to take over the country; and the fourth is secretly loyal to Communist forces who are attempting to kill the politician. The latter part of the novel features a [[dogfight]] between a Sabre flown by one of the main characters—a CIA agent and former Sabre pilot who fought in the Korean War—and aircraft of the Communist squadron.<ref name="Bagley">{{cite book |last=Bagley |first=Desmond |title=High Citadel |year=1974 |publisher=Fontana |location=London |isbn=0-00-612539-5}}</ref>

F-86F Sabres of the JASDF regularly appear in the Showa era of [[kaiju]] films produced by [[Toho]], with the aircraft appearing most prominently during a sequence in ''[[Godzilla (1954 film)|Godzilla]]'' where two Sabres attack the titular monster after he leaves the devastated city of Tokyo.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Edwards |first1=Matthew |title=The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema: Critical Essays |date=2015 |publisher=McFarland |location=USA |isbn=978-1476620206 |page=38 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HkojCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA38}}</ref>

In the 1981 dystopian film ''[[The Last Chase]]'', retired pilot J.G. Williams (played by [[Burgess Meredith]]) and his F-86 Sabre play the antagonist in attempting to track down and destroy the protagonist Franklyn Hart (played by [[Lee Majors]]). After becoming sympathetic to Hart's cause, Williams sacrifices himself in a kamikaze-style attack against a laser installation to protect Hart.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Last Chase |url=http://www.afi.com/members//catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=56650 |journal=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute}}</ref>

A Sabre plays an important role in the 1999 film comedy ''[[Blast from the Past (film)|Blast from the Past]]'' which stars [[Brendan Fraser]] and [[Christopher Walken]]. During the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]], a Sabre pilot is forced to eject over a residential area in the US and the aircraft just happens to crash onto the house of an eccentric father who is sheltering with his family in a large underground bomb shelter he has constructed. Believing the crash to be the impact of a nuclear bomb, the family remain underground for 35 years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dvdfile.com/reviews/dvdreviews/36929-blast-from-the-past |title=Blast From The Past |website=DVDFile |date=31 July 1999 |access-date=3 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012204521/http://www.dvdfile.com/reviews/dvdreviews/36929-blast-from-the-past |archive-date=12 October 2013}}</ref>

==F-101 Voodoo==
[[File:McDonnell F-101 Voodoo.jpg|thumb|[[McDonnell F-101 Voodoo|McDonnell F-101B Voodoo]]]]

A pair of [[McDonnell F-101 Voodoo|McDonnell F-101B Voodoos]] fly over the Russian submarine ''Спрут'' at the end of the 1966 comedy ''[[The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming]]'', directed by [[Norman Jewison]]. Although the film is set in New England, it was filmed on the West Coast and the fighters were from the [[84th Flying Training Squadron|84th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron]], based at the now-closed [[Hamilton Army Airfield|Hamilton Air Force Base]], California.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=88801 |title=Overview for "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming" |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=1 January 2009}}</ref>

==F-104 Starfighter==
[[File:Luke AFB - F-104 Starfighters.jpg|thumb|left|A formation of [[Lockheed F-104 Starfighter]]s]]
Gen. [[Chuck Yeager|Charles "Chuck" Yeager]]'s 10 December 1963 flying accident during a test flight in a modified rocket-boosted [[Lockheed NF-104A]] Starfighter was featured in ''[[The Right Stuff (film)|The Right Stuff]]'' motion picture. The aircraft used for filming was a standard German ''Luftwaffe'' F-104G, flying with its wingtip fuel tanks removed; it otherwise lacked any of the NF-104A's modifications, most visibly the rocket engine pod at the base of the vertical stabilizer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/NF-104A_crash_site.htm |title=The Crash of Yeager's NF-104 |website=Check Six |year=2002}}</ref>

The F-104 is featured heavily in the 1964 film ''[[The Starfighters]]'', directed by Will Zens and starring future US Congressman [[Bob Dornan]]. The film later appeared on the [[Comedy Central]] series ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' as the subject of episode #612.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Trace |last1=Beaulieu |first2=Paul |last2=Chaplin |title=The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide |publisher=Bantam Books |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-55337-783-5 |display-authors=etal}}</ref>

An F-104 Starfighter flown by Captain John Christopher, USAF, intercepts the USS ''Enterprise'' after the ship is thrown back in time by an encounter with a previously unmapped "black star" in ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' first-season episode 1/19, "[[Tomorrow Is Yesterday]]", as the starship is struggling to climb out of Earth's atmosphere over Omaha, Nebraska.<ref>Fontana, Dorothy C. ''Star Trek'', Episode 1/19, "Tomorrow Is Yesterday". First aired January 26, 1967.</ref>

Footage of an F-104 featured in the opening scenes of the science-fiction motion picture ''[[The Bamboo Saucer]]'' (1968), playing the role of an experimental jet called the "X-109" whose pilot Fred Norwood ([[John Ericson (actor)|John Ericson]]) encounters a UFO while carrying out a test flight.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.popmatters.com/post/181503-the-bamboo-saucer/ |title='The Bamboo Saucer' (1968) |website=popmatters.com |access-date=30 August 2017}}</ref>

An F-104 made regular appearances on the 1960s television sitcom ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]''. Leading man Major Anthony Nelson ([[Larry Hagman]]), a pilot in the US Air Force, was often to be seen landing and climbing out of the cockpit of an F-104A. That particular aircraft (56-817) later became part of the collection of the [[Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor|Pacific Aviation Museum]] on [[Ford Island]], [[Oahu]], Hawaii.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pacificaviationmuseum.org/pearl-harbor-blog/lockheed-f-104-starfighter |title=Lockheed F-104 Starfighter |website=Pacific Aviation Museum |date=15 May 2013 |access-date=8 December 2013}}</ref>

[[Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters]] is a 1974 [[satire|satirical]] [[concept album]] by [[Robert Calvert]] and others, telling a fictionalized tale of the [[Lockheed F-104 Starfighter#West German service|F-104G]]'s acquisition by and service with the [[German Air Force]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/captain-lockheed-and-the-starfighters-mw0000201272 |title=Robert Calvert, Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters |last=Raggett |first=Ned |website=Allmusic |access-date=2019-08-04 |quote= The whole album allegedly is something of a concept story about said captain and the sleek combat planes he flies}}</ref> The album included tracks with names such as "the Widowmaker" and "Catch a Falling Starfighter".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jackson |first1=Paul A. |title=1956-1976 |date=1976 |publisher=Midland County Publications |location=Leicestershire, England |isbn=0-904597-04-0 |page=23}}</ref>

==F-111 Aardvark==

In the climax of the 1982 film ''[[Turkey Shoot (1982 film)|Turkey Shoot]]'', several [[Royal Australian Air Force|RAAF]] [[General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark|F-111]] and [[Dassault Mirage III|Mirage III]] fighter-bombers are used to quell a prison revolt.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aso.gov.au/titles/features/turkey-shoot/clip3/ |title=Turkey Shoot (1982) clip 3 on Australian Screen Online |website=Australian Screen Online |access-date=16 December 2023}}</ref>

==F-117 Nighthawk==
[[File:Lockheed F-117A in flight 061006-F-1234S-008.jpg|thumb|[[Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk]]]]

The [[Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk]] was the subject of the 1991 MicroProse game ''[[F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mobygames.com/game/f-117a-nighthawk-stealth-fighter-20 |title=F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0 (1991) - MobyGames |work=mobygames.com |access-date=9 November 2022}}</ref> and the 1993 [[Sega Mega Drive]]-exclusive ''[[F-117 Night Storm]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mobygames.com/game/genesis/f-117-night-storm |title=F-117 Night Storm for Genesis (1993) - MobyGames |work=mobygames.com |access-date=24 April 2017}}</ref>

The plane also appeared in the 1996 action movie ''[[Executive Decision]]'' starring [[Kurt Russell]], [[Steven Seagal]], [[Halle Berry]], [[John Leguizamo]], [[Oliver Platt]], [[Joe Morton]], [[David Suchet]], and [[B.D. Wong]]. In this movie, the plane is called an experimental "Remora F117x" aircraft and capable of carrying passengers and transferring them in-flight onto another aircraft.

==Fairchild UC-61 Forwarder==
A former US Army Air Force [[Fairchild 24|Fairchild UC-61A Forwarder]], painted in USAAF colours, makes a brief appearance to represent the [[Noorduyn UC-64A Norseman]] in which big band leader [[Glenn Miller]] disappeared in December 1944, in the 1954 [[Universal International Pictures]] film ''[[The Glenn Miller Story]]''.<ref name="AIZE">{{cite web |url=http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/73-AF-1097-Fairchild-Argus-II.pdf |title=Individual History Fairchild Argus II G-AIZE Museum Accession Number 73/A/1097 |website=[[Royal Air Force Museum London]] |year=2012 |access-date=12 February 2014}}</ref>

The same aircraft was also featured in a 1964 episode of [[Michael Bentine]]'s [[BBC TV]] comedy programme, ''[[It's a Square World]]'', about a shoestring airline with a staff of two. Filming took a day at [[Elstree Aerodrome]], Herts. In 1965, it appeared in an episode of the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] programme, ''[[The Moonraker]]''.<ref name="AIZE"/>

==Fairchild Hiller FH-227==
When the [[Fairchild F-27|Fairchild Hiller FH-227D]] operating as [[1972 Andes flight disaster|Uruguayan Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya) Flight 571]] ''T-571'' crashed in the Argentine [[Andes Mountains|Andes]] on 13 October 1972, it began a tale of amazing human survival for the 16 of the 45 on board who were rescued over two months later, after two passengers walked to civilization. The survivors' story was published in ''[[Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors]]'', a critically acclaimed book by [[Piers Paul Read]], in 1974. When the story was filmed in 1992 as ''[[Alive (1993 film)|Alive]]'', directed by [[Frank Marshall (film producer)|Frank Marshall]], a similar FH-227 marked as the doomed aircraft was used for some shots, while [[Industrial Light & Magic]] depicted the crash using an eight-foot breakaway model, designed to shear at mid-fuselage. The nose and tail were heavily reinforced while a non-reinforced midsection was built up of plastic, foil, wires and metals so that when it broke it would have the layered metal look of a real airframe breaking up. A cable system was rigged to fly the model, which was on an aligned track, into the miniature mountain, hitting the "sweet spot" on the fuselage, a weakened area barely three inches long.{{sfnp|Cotta Vaz|Duignan|1996|p=155}}

==Fairey Fox==
The [[Fairey Fox|Fairey Fox I]], G-ACXO, race number 35, which participated in the 1934 London to [[Melbourne]] [[MacRobertson Air Race|MacRobertson Trophy Air Race]], was portrayed in the 1991 Australian mini-series ''[[The Great Air Race (miniseries)|The Great Air Race]]'', also known as ''Half a World Away'',<ref name="OzSmlScn203"/> by an unlikely [[Boeing-Stearman Model 75|Boeing Stearman]].<ref name="GtAirRace62"/>

==Fairey Swordfish==
[[File:The Royal Navy during the Second World War A3536.jpg|thumb|[[Fairey Swordfish]]]]

Two [[Fairey Swordfish]] starred in the 1960 film ''[[Sink the Bismarck!]]''. Swordfish LS326 was marked as "5A" of [[825 Naval Air Squadron]], while NF389 was marked as LS423 / "5B".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Howard |first=Lee |title=Return of the Stringbag |journal=Aeroplane |date=December 2010 |volume=38 |number=12 |page=48}}</ref>

==Fairey Battle==
Some [[Fairey Battle]]s appear in the 1942 movie ''[[Captains of the Clouds]]''. The movie is in colour and features scenes of [[James Cagney]]'s character flying one.<ref name="Vintage Wings Canada">{{Cite web|url=http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/203|title=Captains of the Clouds - the making of a BCATP Classic Movie > Vintage Wings of Canada|website=www.vintagewings.ca}}</ref>

==Focke-Wulf Fw 190==
[[Focke-Wulf Fw 190]]s appear in the 1970 novel ''Betrayed Skies'' by Rudolf Braunburg which depicts a Luftwaffe fighter unit based in Poland in 1944.<ref>Bright, Charles. D. ''Aviation Literature-A Changing Art''. Journal Article in ''Aerospace Historian'', Vol 31, No.1. Air-Force Historical Foundation, Spring/March 1984. p. 72.</ref>

Modified [[North American T-6 Texan]]s portrayed Focke-Wulf Fw 190s in the 1977 film ''[[A Bridge Too Far (film)|A Bridge Too Far]]''.<ref name="Hurst_p33-34"/>

A new-build Fw 190 A-8/N participated in the 2007 Finnish war film ''[[Tali-Ihantala 1944]]'', painted in the same markings as ''Oberst'' [[Erich Rudorffer]]'s aircraft in 1944.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.flugwerk.com/diary.shtm |title=Fw 190 replica |website=Flug Werk |access-date=23 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090103221511/http://www.flugwerk.com/diary.shtm |archive-date=3 January 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Fw 190s appear in the French graphic novel ''The Grand Duke'' (2012) written by Yann, illustrated by Romain Hugault and depicting aerial combat between the Soviet air force and the German Luftwaffe over the Eastern Front in the latter stages of the Second World War.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2013/02/19/comic-review-the-grand-duke |title=Comic Review: The Grand Duke |website=Geeks of Doom |date=19 February 2013 |access-date=6 March 2013}}</ref>

==Focke-Wulf ''Triebflügel''==
A [[Focke-Wulf Triebflügel|Focke-Wulf Fw ''Triebflügel'' aircraft]] was featured in the 2011 American [[superhero film]] ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger]]'', with the [[supervillain]] [[Red Skull]] making his first escape in this rocket-aircraft. The scene accurately depicts the rocket and ramjet start and initial climb out of the ''Triebflügel''. Historically, the ''Triebflügel'' had only reached wind-tunnel testing when the Allied forces reached the production facilities, and no complete prototype was ever built. [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] vehicles designed for the film were based on real historical aircraft such as the ''Triebflügel''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Red Skull's Escape Vehicles (2011) |url=http://monsterminions.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/red-skulls-escape-vehicles-2011/ |website=Monster Minions |date=22 July 2011 |access-date=1 August 2011}}</ref>

==Fokker Eindecker==
A [[Fokker Eindecker fighters|Fokker E.III Eindecker]] appeared in the BBC TV series ''[[Wings (BBC TV series)|Wings]]'' (1977–1978), a drama series about pilots of the [[Royal Flying Corps]] in the First World War.<ref>Beck, Simon.D. ''The Aircraft-Spotter's Film & Television Companion''. McFarland Press, 2016. pp. 233–234.</ref>

==Fokker Dr.I==
[[File:Fokker Dr1 on the ground.jpg|thumb|[[Fokker Dr.I]]]]

A scarlet-painted [[Fokker Dr.I]] triplane featured in the DC comic ''[[Enemy Ace]]'' and was the mount of the central character Baron Hans von Hammer, a German fighter pilot in the First World War. Debuting in 1965, the comic was written by [[Robert Kanigher]] and drawn by [[Joe Kubert]] and the character has been revived several times since by other writers & artists.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://talesofwonder.com/product-exec/product_id/37901/affiliate_id/5/keyword/21 |title=Enemy Ace Archives HC Vol. 01 |website=Tales of Wonder |access-date=6 March 2013}}</ref>

A pair of Dr.Is appear in the 1966 film epic ''[[The Blue Max]]'', directed by [[John Guillermin]] and based on the 1964 novel of the same name by [[Jack D. Hunter]].<ref name="thevintageaviator">{{cite web |url=http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/projects/fokker-dvii/blue-max |title=Blue Max |website=The Vintage Aviator |access-date=26 March 2013}}</ref> In the film, rival pilots Bruno Stachel ([[George Peppard]]) and von Klugermann ([[Jeremy Kemp]]) try to out-do one another in a test of nerves by flying their triplanes under a bridge. The scene was filmed at Formoy Viaduct in Ireland and stunt pilot [[Derek Piggott]] was obliged to fly a Dr.I under the bridge, through either the wide or narrow spans, a total of 32 times.<ref>{{cite news |first=Bill |last=Browne |url=http://www.independent.ie/regionals/corkman/news/new-life-for-iconic-prop-of-blue-max-27095638.html |title=New life for iconic 'prop' of Blue Max |newspaper=[[Irish Independent]] |date=26 July 2012 |access-date=15 April 2013}}</ref>

A Dr.I appears in the 1971 film ''[[Von Richthofen and Brown]]'' (released in the US as ''The Red Baron'') which was directed by [[Roger Corman]] and starred [[John Phillip Law]] as the famous German ace. The aircraft makes its first appearance at a cocktail party thrown by the aircraft's designer [[Anthony Fokker]] (played by [[Hurd Hatfield]]) who shows off his creation to guest of honour [[Manfred von Richthofen]] (Law) but the latter's eyes are drawn more to Fokker's attractive mistress.<ref>Riper, A. Bowdoin Van. ''A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors in American Film and TV since 1930''. Scarecrow Press, 2011. pp. 215-216.</ref>

Fokker Dr.Is appear en masse in the 2006 aerial film ''[[Flyboys (film)|Flyboys]]'' directed by [[Tony Bill]] and starring [[James Franco]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://walternelson.com/historia/2006/09/flim_review_flyboys.html |title=Mass Historia: Film Review – Flyboys |website=Walter Nelson.com |date=25 September 2006 |access-date=6 March 2013}}</ref>

Fokker Dr.Is also appear in the 2008 German film ''[[The Red Baron (2008 film)|Der Rote Baron]]'', a biopic about the famous First World War ace [[Manfred von Richthofen]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wingsofhonour.com/worldwar1/reviews/redbaron-themovie2008/html_woh_worldwar1_reviews_redbaron-themovie2008.en.html |title=Review: Der Rote Baron |author=Gremlin |website=Wings of Honor.com |access-date=10 March 2013}}</ref>

==Fokker D.VII==
The 1927 [[William Wellman]] film ''Wings'' featured a [[Fokker D.VII]] among many types depicting World War I aircraft.<ref name="historynet1"/>

A [[Fokker D.VII]] is flown in a dogfight by Baron Heinrich von Frohleich versus [[Race Bannon]] in a [[SPAD S.XIII]] in episode 10 of ''[[Jonny Quest (TV series)|Jonny Quest]]'', "[[List of Jonny Quest episodes|Shadow of the Condor]]", first aired 20 November 1964.<ref name="QuestList">{{cite web |url=http://www.classicjq.com/info/lists/JQHardware.shtml |first=Lyle P. |last=Blosser |title=Hardware and Gadgets |website=Classic Jonny Quest |year=2004}}</ref>

==Ford Trimotor==
[[File:Ford 4AT Trimotor.JPG|thumb|[[Ford Trimotor]]]]

[[John Wayne]] was depicted piloting a [[Ford Trimotor]] in several episodes of the 1932 [[serial film]] ''[[Hurricane Express]]''. A Ford Trimotor appeared in Chapter 1 of ''[[Flash Gordon (serial)|Flash Gordon]]'' (Universal, 1936).<ref>[https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&tbs=bks:1&q=The+Ford+Trimotor+airliner+carrying+Flash+is+struck+by+a+meteor+shower+&aq=&aqi=&aql=f&oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.1,or.&fp=14be60aa2370f745 ''American Cinematographer'', Vol. 64, p. 57.] American Society of Cinematographers (ASC Holding Corp). Retrieved; 28 February 2011. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317093950/https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&tbs=bks:1&q=The+Ford+Trimotor+airliner+carrying+Flash+is+struck+by+a+meteor+shower+&aq=&aqi=&aql=f&oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.1,or.&fp=14be60aa2370f745 |date=17 March 2012}}</ref> Director [[Howard Hawks]]' 1939 film ''[[Only Angels Have Wings]]'' features a Trimotor that catches fire after a freak accident with a [[condor]], eventually performing an emergency landing on an airfield. A real and a model Trimotor were used for the sequence.<ref>Wynne 1987, p. 174.</ref>

A Ford 4-AT-E Trimotor, N8407, appeared in the 1965 comedy ''[[The Family Jewels (film)|The Family Jewels]]'' "flown" by [[Jerry Lewis]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Marks |first=Scott |url=http://www.emulsioncompulsion.com/2008/03/03/rants/tin-goose-airplane-used-in-jerry-lewis-the-family-jewels-still-soaring-after-79-years |title='Tin Goose' airplane used in Jerry Lewis' "The Family Jewels" still soaring after 79 years |website=emulsioncompulsion.com |date=3 March 2008 |access-date=14 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080306211630/http://www.emulsioncompulsion.com/2008/03/03/rants/tin-goose-airplane-used-in-jerry-lewis-the-family-jewels-still-soaring-after-79-years/ |archive-date=6 March 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> This aircraft is now owned by the [[Experimental Aircraft Association]].

The Ford 5-AT-B Trimotor currently owned by [[Kermit Weeks]]' [[Fantasy of Flight]] Museum was featured early in the opening of the 1984 film ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fantasyofflight.com/collection/aircraft/golden-age/1929-ford-5at-tri-motor/ |title=Ford Trimotor |website=Fantasy of Flight |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trimotors.awiggins.com/fordlist.htm#N7584 |title=N7584 |website=The Ford Tri-Motors! |first=Arthur B. |last=Wiggins |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160706182050/http://www.trimotors.awiggins.com/fordlist.htm#N7584 |archive-date=6 July 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

A Trimotor was also featured in [[Brian DePalma]]'s 1987 version of ''[[The Untouchables (film)|The Untouchables]]'' with [[Kevin Costner]] and [[Sean Connery]].<ref>[http://www.trimotors.awiggins.com/fordlist.htm "Where are they now?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101212021712/http://www.trimotors.awiggins.com/fordlist.htm |date=12 December 2010}} ''The Ford Tri-Motors'', 21 January 2009. Retrieved: 15 March 2009.</ref>

A Ford Trimotor 4AT-B featured in the 2009 film ''[[Amelia (film)|Amelia]]'', a biopic of aviator [[Amelia Earhart]] starring [[Hilary Swank]] and [[Richard Gere]]. The aircraft featured in the film belonged to the [[Golden Wings Museum]], Minnesota.<ref name="auto3">{{Cite web |url= http://www.australianflying.com.au/news/amelia-earhart-s-aircraft-wrangler |title=Amelia Earhart's aircraft wrangler |website= australianflying.com.au}}</ref>

==GAF Nomad==
The [[GAF Nomad|Government Aircraft Factories (GAF) Nomad]], an Australian-built twin-engine [[STOL]] (Short Take-Off and Landing) aircraft, was a regular feature on the successful Australian TV series ''[[The Flying Doctors]]'' which aired on the [[Nine Network]] 1986–1993.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bush-planes.com/GAFNomadBushPlane.html |title=GAF Nomad Bush Plane |website=Bush-planes.com |access-date=10 September 2012}}</ref>

==Gee Bee Racer==
Two [[Gee Bee Model Z|Gee Bee Model Z Super Sportster]] racing aircraft were featured in the 1991 [[Walt Disney Productions|Walt Disney]] film ''[[The Rocketeer (film)|The Rocketeer]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Schweiger |first=Daniel |title=Rocketeer: Comic Book Origins |journal=[[Cinefantastique]] |date=August 1991}}</ref>

[[Kermit Weeks]], founder of [[Fantasy of Flight]], used a Gee Bee Model Z as his main character "Zee" in a 2008 series of children's books set in the [[Aviation between the World Wars|interwar period]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Historic Racers Inspire Kids' Books |newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |location=Orlando, Florida |date=8 October 2007 |page=J1}}</ref>

A Mexican Gee Bee Racer named "El Chupacabra" is one of the characters in the 2013 [[Disney]] animated film ''[[Planes (film)|Planes]]''.<ref name="theatlantic1"/>

==Gloster Gladiator==
[[Gloster Gladiator]]s appear in the Second World War novel ''[[Signed with Their Honour|Signed with their Honour]]'', written in 1942 by Australian author and war correspondent [[James Aldridge]]. The novel is set during the Axis invasion of Greece in 1940–41 and the central character is a British pilot named John Quayle who flies Gladiators with [[No. 80 Squadron RAF]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/huntingdon-daily-news/1942-09-25/page-4 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129214507/http://newspaperarchive.com/huntingdon-daily-news/1942-09-25/page-4 |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 January 2013 |title=Page 4, Huntingdon Daily News, September 25, 1942 |website=NewspaperARCHIVE.com |date=25 September 1942 |access-date=17 August 2012}}</ref> An attempt in 1943 to make a film based on the novel was abandoned when two Gladiators were destroyed in a mid-air collision during the production.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/74-A-17-Gladiator-K8042.pdf |title=Gloster Gladiator Mk.I K8042/8372M |website=Royal Air Force Museum London |access-date=17 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ezraysnet.co.uk/bhaa/crash12.html |title=Gladiator Collision |website=Ezraysnet.co.uk |date=30 December 1943 |access-date=17 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111027183516/http://www.ezraysnet.co.uk/bhaa/crash12.html |archive-date=27 October 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Gloster Meteor==
A privately owned [[Gloster Meteor|Gloster Meteor TT20]], N94749 appeared in the two-part 1976 episode, "The Feminum Mystique", of the first season of the ''[[Wonder Woman (TV series)|Wonder Woman]]'' television series, as the experimental "XPJ-1" fighter which is stolen by the Nazis. This airframe has been donated to the [[Edwards Air Force Base]] Flight Test Center museum.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.meteorflight.com/waveplus/meteor.nsf/pages/airframe_wd592 |title=Gloster Meteor NF11 (TT20) WD592 |website=MeteorFlight.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023552/http://www.meteorflight.com/waveplus/meteor.nsf/pages/airframe_wd592 |archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> The episode title was borrowed from [[Betty Friedan]]'s 1963 book [[The Feminine Mystique|of a similar title]], which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of [[second-wave feminism]] in the US.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/national/05friedan.html?ex=1296795600&en=30472e5004a66ea3&ei=5090 |title=Betty Friedan, Who Ignited Cause in 'Feminine Mystique,' Dies at 85 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=5 February 2006 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

A [[Gloster Meteor|Gloster Meteor T.7]], either WA634 or WA638, owned by [[Martin-Baker]] appeared in the episode "Many Happy Returns" of the 1967 British TV series ''[[The Prisoner]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theunmutual.co.uk/meteor.htm |title=Gloster Meteor |website=The Unmutual Prisoner Vehicle Guide |access-date=28 April 2015}}</ref>

==Goodyear Blimp==
[[File:Goodyear-blimp.jpg|thumb|right|[[Goodyear Blimp]] ]]

The 1977 [[John Frankenheimer]] film ''[[Black Sunday (1977 film)|Black Sunday]]'' features the [[Goodyear Blimp]] as the vehicle which [[Black September (group)|Black September]] terrorists plan to hijack and attack the [[Super Bowl]], played in the [[Miami Orange Bowl|Orange Bowl]] in Miami.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=EE05E7DF1731E261BC4953DFB266838C669EDE |title=Movie Review – Black Sunday |first=Vincent |last=Canby |newspaper=The New York Times |date=1 April 1977 |access-date=5 January 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160129155707/http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=EE05E7DF1731E261BC4953DFB266838C669EDE|archive-date= 29 January 2016}}</ref>

==Gotha G.IV==
A [[Gotha G.IV]] appears in the 2006 First World War aerial film ''[[Flyboys (film)|Flyboys]]'' directed by [[Tony Bill]] and starring [[James Franco]]. To depict the bomber, the producers used both computer-generated imagery<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fxguide.com/featured/Fly_Hard_740_shots_in_4_months/ |title=Fly Hard: 740 shots in 4 months |website=FXguide.com |date=24 September 2006 |access-date=28 December 2012}}</ref> and a replica of the forward fuselage of a Gotha, now displayed in a museum at RAF Manston.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abpic.co.uk/search.php?q=Gotha%20G.IV%20Replica&u=type |title=Gotha G.IV Replica |website=Air-Britain Photographic Images Collection |date=23 September 2010 |access-date=28 December 2012}}</ref>

==Grumman G-21 Goose==
A [[Grumman G-21 Goose]], painted red, white and black, named "Cutter's Goose", was the main transport of protagonist Jake Cutter (played by [[Stephen Collins]]) in the early 1982–83 adventure television series, ''[[Tales of the Gold Monkey]]'', and used to transport Cutter and his allies among various south Pacific islands in the late 1930s setting of the show.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.johnkennethmuir.com/JohnKennethMuirsRetroTVFile_GoldMonkey.html |title=Tales of the Gold Monkey 1982–83 |last=Muir |first=John Kenneth |year=2004 |access-date=25 September 2011}}</ref>

==Grumman HU-16 Albatross==
The 1964 film ''[[Flight from Ashiya]]'', starring [[Richard Widmark]], [[Yul Brynner]] and [[George Chakiris]], follows the crews of two [[Grumman HU-16 Albatross]] of the USAF Air Rescue Service as they attempt to rescue the survivors of a Japanese shipwreck in the North China Sea.<ref name="aerofilesFilmsF"/>

The 2010 film ''[[The Expendables (2010 film)|The Expendables]]'' also features an Albatross as the protagonists' private airplane.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.moviehabit.com/review.php?story=exp_hm10 |title=The Expendables |last=Anderson |first=Matt |date=August 2010 |website=Movie Habit |access-date=14 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102010833/http://moviehabit.com/review.php?story=exp_hm10 |archive-date=2 January 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://theenterprisereport.typepad.com/news/2010/08/exclusive-new-sylvestor-stallone-action-movie-the-expendables-uses-seaplane-pilot-with-safety-questi.html |first=Eric |last=Longabardi |title=Exclusive: New Sylvester Stallone Action Movies The Expendables Used Seaplane Pilot With Safety Question |website=The Enterprise Report |date=14 August 2010}}</ref>

==Grumman J2F Duck==
A [[Grumman J2F Duck]] was the primary plot device of the 1971 [[United Artists]] film ''[[Murphy's War]]'', starring [[Peter O'Toole]] as the title character. Stunt flying was done by [[Frank Tallman]].<ref name="aerofilesFilmsM">{{cite web |url=http://www.aerofiles.com/film-m.html |title=Aviation Films – M |website=Aerofiles |access-date=8 May 2010}}</ref> The J2F-6 which starred in the film, BuNo ''33587'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aviation-history.com/grumman/j2f.html |title=The Grumman J2F Duck |website=Aviation-history.com |access-date=24 July 2012}}</ref> afterwards resided in the Weeks Air Museum in Florida, USA (now the Fantasy of Flight Museum).{{sfnp|Ogden|1986|p=146}}

==Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger==
The 1944 film ''[[Wing and a Prayer]]'' is the fictional account of a torpedo squadron equipped with [[Grumman TBF Avenger]]s in early 1942. The movie culminates when the squadron fights at the [[Battle of Midway]].<ref>Orriss, Bruce. ''When Hollywood Ruled the Skies: The Aviation Film Classics of World War II''. Hawthorne, California: Aero Associates Inc., 1984. {{ISBN|0-9613088-0-X}}, p. 90.</ref>

A group of [[Grumman TBF Avenger|Avengers]] appears in the opening scene of [[Steven Spielberg]]'s 1977 sci-fi film ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''. In the scene, a group of officials arrive at an isolated cantina in Mexico's Sonora Desert where the five Avengers of 'Flight-19' have mysteriously appeared overnight. [[Flight 19]] was the infamous training flight of five TBMs that vanished without trace after taking off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on 5 December 1945.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/oldstuff/flight19/flight19.htm |title=The Loss of Flight 19 |website=Airscene UK |date=5 December 1945 |access-date=19 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120518231612/http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/oldstuff/flight19/flight19.htm |archive-date=18 May 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> One of the TBMs featured in the scene was the TBM-3E (BuNo ''53503'') now owned and flown by the Rocky Mountain Wing of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.warbirddepot.com/aircraft_attack_tbm-cafrm.asp |title=CAF Rocky Mountain Wing Grumman TBM-3E Avenger |website=Warbird Depot |access-date=19 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322031450/http://www.warbirddepot.com/aircraft_attack_tbm-cafrm.asp |archive-date=22 March 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Grumman Widgeon==
A [[Grumman G-44 Widgeon]] opened each week's episode of the 1978–1984 television series ''[[Fantasy Island]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.weloveseaplanes.com/seaplane-widgeons.html |title=Grumman G-44 Widgeon |website=We Love Seaplanes |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023121823/http://www.weloveseaplanes.com/seaplane-widgeons.html |archive-date=23 October 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Grumman X-29==
The Transformers Autobot named Dogfight disguises himself as a [[Grumman X-29]].{{sfnp|Bellomo|2007|p=168}}

In Kaoru Shintani's manga series ''[[Area 88]]'', main character Shin Kazama pilots an X-29 during the final battles.<ref>Shintani, Kaoru. ''Area 88 Vol. 10''. Shonen Sunday Wide Comics, 1990.</ref>

==HAL HF-24 Marut==
The Bollywood war film ''[[Border (1997 film)|Border]]'' is a fictionalized account of the 1971 [[Battle of Longewala]] between India and Pakistan. In the film a formation of [[HAL HF-24 Marut]] fighter-bombers of the [[Indian Air Force]] bomb Pakistani armoured ground forces consisting of 300 tanks and Armored Personnel Carriers.<ref>{{cite book|last=Nordeen |first=Lon O. |title=Air Warfare in the Missile Age |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press |year=1985 |page=[https://archive.org/details/airwarfareinmiss00nord/page/100 100] |isbn=978-0-87474-680-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/airwarfareinmiss00nord/page/100}}</ref>

==Harrier family==
[[File:AV-8B Harrier Marine Attack Squadron 211 (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II|AV-8B Harrier II]] |alt=Front-view of gray jet aircraft executing a hover. The huge engine inlets are on both sides of the fuselage]]

The Gobots character Royal-T and the Transformers Aerialbot named Slingshot disguise themselves as a [[Harrier jump jet|Harrier]].{{sfnp|Bellomo|2007|p=87}} In the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' Decepticon character [[Dirge (Transformers)|Dirge]] also became a Harrier. This design was later used for the [[Decepticon]] [[Jetblade]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bwtf.com/toyreviews/rotf/deluxe/dirge/ |title=Revenge of the Fallen Dirge Toy review |last=Yee |first=Benson |website=Ben's World of Transformers |year=2009 |access-date=19 January 2010 |archive-date=20 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091120090936/http://www.bwtf.com/toyreviews/rotf/deluxe/dirge |url-status=dead}}</ref>

A [[Royal Air Force]] Harrier was used by [[MI6]] in the 1987 [[James Bond]] film ''[[The Living Daylights]]'' to smuggle [[KGB]] defector Georgi Koskov out of Austria.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/q-branch/harrierjumpjet.php3?t=mi6&s=tld |title=Harrier Jump Jet (The Living Daylights) |website=MI6: The Home of James Bond 007 |access-date=22 November 2012}}</ref>

Two [[AV-8B Harrier II]]s were used in the 1994 film ''[[True Lies]]''.<ref name="Kemper"/> The aircraft was prominent in the latter part of the film, being used by [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'s character to rescue his daughter from terrorists in a Miami high rise and shoot down their helicopter.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Z68fAAAAIBAJ&pg=1434,2895878&dq=true-lies+harrier&hl=en |title=True Lies determined to go over the top without outlandish special effects |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |date=21 July 1994 |newspaper=[[Southeast Missourian]] |access-date=2 March 2011}}</ref>

The Harrier was one of the aircraft types featured in the short-lived 1982 BBC-TV series ''[[Squadron (TV series)|Squadron]]'' which was a drama about a fictional Royal Air Force unit, 373 Squadron. The unit was a Rapid Deployment Force and featured an unusual mix of aircraft including Harriers, C-130 Hercules and Puma helicopters. The series ran for ten episodes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tv.com/shows/squadron/ |title=Squadron |website=TV.com |date=9 July 2009 |access-date=8 August 2012}}</ref>

An 8-bit shooter computer game [[Harrier Attack]] by [[Durell Software]] was published in 1983.<ref>https://www.mobygames.com/game/14998/harrier-attack/</ref> Although fictional, the game has notable similarity to [[Royal Navy]] [[British Aerospace Sea Harrier|Sea Harriers]] role during [[Falklands War]].{{cn|date=December 2023}}

==Handley Page Halifax==
The novel ''[[A God in Ruins (Atkinson novel)|A God in Ruins]]'' (2015) by [[Kate Atkinson (writer)|Kate Atkinson]] features the [[Handley Page Halifax]] heavy bomber. The central character, Teddy Todd, is a Halifax pilot serving with RAF Bomber Command during WW2 and flies over 70 night-bombing missions over Germany.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/books/review/kate-atkinsons-a-god-in-ruins.html|title=Kate Atkinson's 'A God in Ruins'|first=Tom|last=Perrotta|date=4 May 2015|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/04/kate-atkinson-wins-costa-novel-prize-for-a-god-in-ruins|title=Kate Atkinson wins Costa novel prize for A God in Ruins|first=Alison|last=Flood|date=4 January 2016|via=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/29/a-god-in-ruins-kate-atkinson-review-novel-companion-life-after-life|title=A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson review – the companion to Life After Life|first=Tessa|last=Hadley|date=29 April 2015|via=The Guardian}}</ref>

==Handley Page Victor==
The 1962 British film ''[[The Iron Maiden]]'' features a [[Handley Page Victor]] bomber as a fictional supersonic passenger-carrying airliner designed by the protagonist. At the end of the film, this fictional airliner is named after the eponymous traction engine.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalcoldwarexhibition.org/explore/aircraft-information.cfm?aircraft=Handley%20Page%20Victor%20K2&topic=Not%20a%20Lot%20of%20People%20Know%20That... |title=Handley Page Victor K2 – Not a Lot of People Know That... |website=National Cold War Exhibition |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930020050/http://www.nationalcoldwarexhibition.org/explore/aircraft-information.cfm?aircraft=Handley%20Page%20Victor%20K2&topic=Not%20a%20Lot%20of%20People%20Know%20That... |archive-date=30 September 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Hawker Hunter==
The 1952 British film ''[[The Sound Barrier]]'' features [[Hawker Hunter]] fighters.<ref name="aerofilesFilmsB"/>

Hawker Hunter Mk 4s play a major role in the 1957 British Cinemascope motion picture ''[[High Flight (film)|High Flight]]'' directed by [[John Gilling]] and starring [[Ray Milland]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brooklandshunters.com/page14.htm |title=Preserved Hawker Hunters at Brooklands – Hunter 'XF314' |website=Brooklands Hunters |access-date=19 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911054912/http://brooklandshunters.com/page14.htm |archive-date=11 September 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

A formation of Hawker Hunters of the [[Chilean Air Force]] appeared in the 2004 Chilean film ''[[Machuca]]'' in which they bomb the ''[[Palacio de La Moneda]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://mercurioantofagasta.cl/prontus4_noticias/site/artic/20040804/pags/20040804023741.html |title=La crítica chilena concuerda en postular filme "Machuca" al Oscar |newspaper=El Mercurio de Antofagasta |location=Antofagasta, Chile |date=4 August 2004 |access-date=10 May 2012 |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.estrellaarica.cl/site/edic/20040807023527/pags/20040807064852.html |title="Machuca", el filme con mejor debut de la historia del cine chileno |newspaper=La Estrella de Arica |location=Arica, Chile |date=7 August 2004 |access-date=10 May 2012 |language=es}}</ref>

The music video for the 2000 electronica single "[[Sunset (Bird of Prey)]]" by [[Fatboy Slim]] features a [[Hawker Hunter]] trainer in [[United States Air Force]] livery, as the titular "Bird of Prey".<ref>{{cite book |title=Hawker Hunter: 1951–2007 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ih5Vcy2PZXQC&pg=PA79|first=David J. |last=Griffin |date=December 2006 |publisher=Lulu Enterprises |location=Morrisville, North Carolina |isbn=978-1-4303-0593-4 |page=79}}</ref>

==Hawker Hurricane==
[[File:Hurricane mk1 r4118 fairford arp.jpg|thumb|[[Hawker Hurricane]] Mk.I]]

Along with the [[Supermarine Spitfire]],<ref name="olga">Craig, Olga [https://web.archive.org/web/20140312050010/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/battle-of-britain/7851060/Battle-of-Britain-the-spitfire-envy-of-the-enemy.html Battle of Britain: the spitfire, envy of the enemy June 28, 2010] ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'' Retrieved 14 March 2017</ref> the [[Hawker Hurricane]] is very strongly linked to the [[Battle of Britain]] in summer 1940, where the [[Royal Air Force]] fought the German [[Luftwaffe]] over the skies of Britain for air superiority.<ref name="without">[https://web.archive.org/web/20140814163922/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/battle-of-britain/7851030/Battle-of-Britain-without-the-hurricane-the-battle-would-have-been-lost.html Battle of Britain: without the hurricane the battle would have been lost June 28, 2010] ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]''</ref> As such it has been featured in many works of fiction related to the Battle of Britain.

A number of [[Hawker Hurricanes]], including the last one built, registered G-AMAU, "The Last of the Many", and five provided by the [[Portuguese Air Force]], which flew the type until mid-1954, were used in the making of the Templar Productions Ltd. production provisionally titled "''Hawks in the Sun''", based on the book ''What Are Your Angels Now?'' by Wing Commander A. J. C. Pelham Groom, then released in March 1952 as ''[[Angels One Five]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Stroud |first=Nick |title=The Last of the Many: The Racing Years |journal=Warbirds International |year=2012 |volume=31 |number=5 |page=43}}</ref>

Hurricanes were shown in the 1956 British film ''[[Reach For the Sky]]'' starring [[Kenneth More]] and directed by [[Lewis Gilbert]] and based on the biography of [[Douglas Bader]] by [[Paul Brickhill]]. One Hurricane which featured in a static role in the film was the Mk. I, P2617, now preserved at the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon. Another, which flew in the aerial scenes, was the Mk-IIc, LF363, now operated by the [[Battle of Britain Memorial Flight]] based at Conningsby, UK.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://plane-crazy.purplecloud.net/Aircraft/WW2-Planes/Hurricane/Pages/hurricane.htm |title=Hawker Hurricane |website=Plane-crazy.purplecloud.net |access-date=3 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130130012928/http://plane-crazy.purplecloud.net/Aircraft/WW2-Planes/Hurricane/Pages/hurricane.htm |archive-date=30 January 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[Hawker Hurricane]] was shown in the 1969 film ''[[Battle of Britain (film)|Battle of Britain]]''. Three airworthy Hurricanes were located and used for the filming.<ref name="Burman">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/6175448/The-Battle-of-Britain-the-mother-of-all-air-battles.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090914103444/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/6175448/The-Battle-of-Britain-the-mother-of-all-air-battles.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 September 2009 |title=The Battle of Britain: the mother of all air battles |last=Burman |first=Mark |date=11 September 2009 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=19 January 2010 |location=London}}</ref>

A Hawker Hurricane was the fighter flown by the Second World War character Johnny Redburn in the long-running British comic strip ''Johnny Red'' which was published in ''[[Battle Picture Weekly]]'' 1977–1987. The storyline featured Redburn, having been discharged from the RAF and joining the [[Merchant Navy (United Kingdom)|Merchant Navy]], commandeers a [[CAM ship]]'s Hurricane during an attack on a convoy (after the official pilot is killed), and ends up stranded in Soviet Russia at the height of the war against the Germans in which he fights alongside Russian pilots. The comic was written by [[Tom Tully (comic writer)|Tom Tully]] and illustrated by [[Joe Colquhoun]], John Cooper and Carlos Pino.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.falconsquadron.sevenpennynightmare.co.uk/?p=104 |title=A Brief History of Johnny Red |website=Falcon Squadron |date=22 February 2010 |access-date=3 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402234111/http://www.falconsquadron.sevenpennynightmare.co.uk/?p=104 |archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref> The character was revived in 2017 for the graphic novel mini-series ''Johnny Red: The Hurricane'' written by [[Garth Ennis]] and illustrated by Keith Burns.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.grovel.org.uk/johnny-red-the-hurricane-volume-1/|title=Johnny Red: The Hurricane Volume 1|date=5 March 2017}}</ref>

The Hawker Hurricane Mk. I is the aircraft for the fictional RAF pilots depicted in the 1983 novel ''[[Piece of Cake (novel)|Piece of Cake]]'' by Derek Robinson.<ref>{{cite book |last=Calder |first=Angus |title=The Myth of the Blitz |publisher=Pimlico |year=1992 |pages=162–163}}</ref> The 1988 [[Piece of Cake (TV series)|miniseries]] based on the novel used [[Supermarine Spitfire]]s instead of Hurricanes.

The 2006 novel ''Blue Man Falling'' by Frank Barnard also featured Hurricanes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.readingcircle.co.uk/bluemanfalling.html |title=Blue Man Falling |website=Reading Circle |access-date=8 July 2012}}</ref>

==Heinkel He 111==
The [[Heinkel He 111]] has a prominent role in the movie ''[[Battle of Britain (film)|Battle of Britain]]''.<ref>MacCarron, Donald. "Mahaddie's Air Force". ''FlyPast'', September 1999, p. 80.</ref>

==Hiller UH-12 / OH-23 Raven==
A [[Hiller OH-23 Raven|Hiller UH-12]] appears in the 1951 sci-fi film ''[[When Worlds Collide (1951 film)|When Worlds Collide]]'' directed by [[George Pal]] and based on the [[When Worlds Collide|1933 novel]] of the same name. The helicopter is used to render assistance to flood-stranded refugees and to rescue a young boy stranded on a rooftop.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/w.html |title=Films – W |website=Rotary Action |access-date=1 September 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923181248/http://www.rotaryaction.com/w.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref>

A UH-12C was used to attack [[James Bond]] in the 1963 film ''[[From Russia with Love (film)|From Russia with Love]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5764294&nseq=0 |website=JetPhotos |title=Hiller UH-12B |access-date=11 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917215313/http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5764294&nseq=0 |archive-date=17 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.007helicopter.com/ |title=Hiller, Helicopter UH 12C "N780ND" |website=007helicopter.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316000241/http://www.007helicopter.com/ |archive-date=16 March 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

A Hiller UH-12E suffered a tail-rotor strike during filming of the 1978 film ''[[Attack of the Killer Tomatoes]]''. Footage of the crash was used in the film. The helicopter pilot and actors on board escaped without serious injury, but the helicopter was destroyed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.check-six.com/lib/Movie_Crash2.htm |title=Movie Crash from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, 11 July 1978 |website=Check Six |access-date=7 May 2011}}</ref>

==Hindenburg==
The [[Zeppelin]] [[LZ 129 Hindenburg]] was the subject of the 1975 film ''[[The Hindenburg (film)|The Hindenburg]]'', which speculated [[sabotage]] as the cause of the 1937 disaster at [[Naval Air Station Lakehurst]], New Jersey.{{sfnp|Hardwick|Schnepf|1989}} The studio model of the airship is now displayed in the [[Smithsonian Institution]]'s [[National Air and Space Museum]] in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite book |last=Russo |first=Carolyn |title=Artifacts of Flight Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum |year=2003 |publisher=Harry N. Abrams Incorporated |isbn=978-0-8109-4530-2}}</ref>

==Hispano Aviación HA-1112==
[[File:Hispano Aviación Ha 1112 Buchon.jpeg|right|thumb|[[Hispano Aviación Ha 1112 Buchón]] ]]

Twenty-eight former Spanish Air Force [[Hispano Aviación HA-1112]]s were used in the 1969 film ''[[Battle of Britain (film)|Battle of Britain]]'' as "stand-ins" to depict [[Messerschmitt Bf 109]] fighters of the ''Luftwaffe'',{{sfnp|Chapman|Goodall|1992|p=185}} These aircraft included 27 single-seat M1Ls and one two-seat M4L.<ref name="Scutts">{{cite book|last=Scutts |first=Jerry |title=Messerschmitt Bf 109: The operational record |year=1996 |publisher=Crestline |isbn=0-7603-0262-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/messerschmittbf100scut/page/138 138] |url=https://archive.org/details/messerschmittbf100scut/page/138}}</ref> Eighteen were flown, six could taxi, the rest used to dress sets.{{sfnp|Brown|2012|p=50}} In the mid-1960s at the time aircraft began to be collected for the film to be made, the only genuine Bf 109s known to exist were unairworthy examples in museums such as the [[Imperial War Museum]] and the [[South African National Museum of Military History]] or in private hands; whereas the HA-1112 was just being retired from service with the Spanish Air Force and several airframes in flyable condition and some 50 dismantled Buchóns were up for disposal bid.{{sfnp|Chapman|Goodall|1992|pp=207–210}} The four airframes acquired by the [[Commemorative Air Force|Confederate Air Force]] just prior to the start of filming "were the first Buchóns in truly civilian ownership, early members of the fledgling warbird preservation movement."{{sfnp|Brown|2012|p=51}}

Several Buchóns were painted in RAF markings for the 1969 Italian "[[Euro War|macaroni combat]]" [[war film]] ''[[Eagles Over London]]'', also known as ''Battle Squadron'' and ''Battle Command'' ({{lang-it|La battaglia d'Inghilterra}}), directed by [[Enzo G. Castellari]].<ref>Severin Films DVD Case, 2009. Retrieved: September 2009.</ref> "In 1979, much of the footage shot for ''Eagles Over London'' appeared in the dire [[George Peppard]] film ''[[From Hell to Victory|Hell to Victory]]''".{{sfnp|Brown|2012|p=51}}

Three of the Buchóns were "hastily converted into [[North American P-51 Mustang|P-51B Mustangs]] for the 1970 film ''[[Patton (film)|Patton]]''. This involved the attachment of a large Mustang-esque fibreglass air intake to the underside of the fuselage."{{sfnp|Brown|2012|p=51}}

One CAF Buchón flew as a Bf 109B in [[Condor Legion]] markings for the film ''[[The Hindenburg (film)|The Hindenburg]]'' which began filming in August 1974.{{sfnp|Brown|2012|p=51}}

Buchóns, again depicting Bf 109s, made an appearance on the 1980 ABC-network TV sci-fi series ''[[Galactica 1980]]'', a short-lived spin-off from the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' series. The heroes travel back in time in their space Vipers to Earth during the Second World War and encounter the ''Luftwaffe''. The footage of Buchóns consisted of out-takes from the 1969 film ''Battle of Britain''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://galactica1981.tripod.com/GalacticaDiscoversFanReview.htm |title=Review of "Galactica Discovers Earth" |first=Matthew |last=Wharmby |website=Sheba's Galaxy: The Ultimate Battlestar Galactica Information Site |access-date=27 August 2012}}</ref>

One Buchón, which had taxied in ''The Battle of Britain'', flew in the 1988 [[London Weekend Television|LWT]] miniseries ''[[Piece of Cake (TV series)|Piece of Cake]]'',{{sfnp|Brown|2012|p=52}} and was one of three flyable HA-1112s used to depict Bf 109s in the 1990 film ''[[Memphis Belle (film)|Memphis Belle]]''.<ref name="Scutts"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ollieswebspace/me109.htm |title=The Making of the Film Memphis Belle – The 109's (Hispano HA 1112's) |website=Oliver Holmes Photography |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref> The ''Piece of Cake'' Buchón also appeared in the 1991 [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] television miniseries ''[[A Perfect Hero]]''.{{sfnp|Brown|2012|p=52}}

A Buchón now with the [[Planes of Fame Air Museum]], [[Chino, California]], is under repair after a landing accident at [[Lydd]] in Kent during filming of the 2001 film ''[[Pearl Harbor (film)|Pearl Harbor]]'' in 2000.{{sfnp|Brown|2012|p=52}}

A former training airframe that did not appear in the ''Battle of Britain'' but which was restored to Bf 109G-10 standard in the early 1990s, and operated by the Old Flying Machine Company, appeared in the 1995 telemovie ''[[Over Here (TV serial)|Over Here]]'' starring [[Martin Clunes]].{{sfnp|Brown|2012|p=52}}

A Buchon appears in the 2017 [[Christopher Nolan]] film ''[[Dunkirk (2017 film)|Dunkirk]]''.<ref name="aviation-news.co.uk">{{cite web |url=http://www.aviation-news.co.uk/view_article.asp?ID=10262 |title=Change of markings for Dunkirk film warbirds |work=aviation-news.co.uk |access-date=16 March 2017}}</ref><ref name="warbirdsnews.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/dunkirk.html |title=Dunkirk – Filming the Aerial Scenes for the Epic Movie - Warbirds News |work=warbirdsnews.com |date=15 August 2016 |access-date=16 March 2017}}</ref>

== Hughes 500 / OH-6 / MH-6 / MD 500 ==
In the 1983 film ''[[Blue Thunder]]'', the antagonist Colonel Cochrane flew a heavily armed [[Hughes 500|MD 500]].<ref name="BlueThunder"/>

Three [[Hughes OH-6 Cayuse|Hughes OH-6A Cayuse]] helicopters make up part of the strike package against [[Ernst Stavro Blofeld]]'s oil rig command center in the 1971 [[James Bond]] film ''[[Diamonds Are Forever (film)|Diamonds Are Forever]]''.<ref name="RotaryActionD"/>

A [[Hughes 500|Hughes 500C]] takes part in the 1973 telemovie ''[[Birds of Prey (1973 film)|Birds of Prey]]'', in which a traffic reporter, played by [[David Janssen]], gets into an aerial duel with a gang of bank robbers, who have their own getaway helicopter, an [[Aérospatiale SA 315B Lama|Aérospatiale Lama]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/birdsprey.html |title=Birds of Prey |website=Rotary Action |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923182055/http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/birdsprey.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref>

A pair of Hughes 500 helicopters appear in the 1978 film ''[[Capricorn One]]'', near the climactic ending where they get entangled with a crop duster biplane.<ref name="RotaryActionC"/>

''[[240-Robert]]'' is an American television series that ran on ABC from 1979 to 1981. The series was about a specialized unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD), that used four–wheel drive vehicles and a Hughes 500 helicopter.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/240robert.html |title=240-Robert |website=Rotary Action |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180329125643/http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/240robert.html |archive-date =29 March 2018}}</ref>

In the 1980s television series ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]'', Thomas Magnum's friend and fellow war veteran T.C. (for Theodore Calvin) flies a civilian Hughes 500D as a tourist charter Island Hoppers business.<ref name="RotaryActionM"/>

[[MD Helicopters MH-6 Little Bird]] helicopters provided air support for the downed Blackhawk's crash site in the 2001 film ''[[Black Hawk Down (film)|Black Hawk Down]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/blackhawk.html |title=Black Hawk Down |website=Rotary Action |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160425042300/http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/blackhawk.html |archive-date =25 April 2016}}</ref>

In the film ''[[Fire Birds]]'' (1990), a drug runner's Scorpion helicopter (portrayed by an [[McDonnell Douglas MD 500 Defender|MD 500]]) ambushes a US Army AH-1 Cobra during the opening sequence.<ref name="RotaryActionWings"/>

==Hughes H-4 Hercules (''Spruce Goose'')==
[[File:H-4 Hercules 2.jpg|thumb|The sole [[Hughes H-4 Hercules]]]]

The [[Hughes H-4 Hercules]], also known as the ''Hercules HK-1'' and ''"The Spruce Goose"'', is a large [[flying boat]] which has made a number of appearances in fiction.

The aircraft was central to the plot of the 1987 [[Hanna-Barbera]] animated film ''[[Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Barbera |first=Joseph |title=My Life in Toons From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century |year=1994 |publisher=Turner Publishing |location=Atlanta |isbn=1-57036-042-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/mylifeintoonsfro00barb/page/191 191–192] |url=https://archive.org/details/mylifeintoonsfro00barb/page/191}}</ref>

In the 1988 biopic ''[[Tucker: The Man and His Dream]]'', a pivotal meeting between automaker [[Preston Tucker]] and [[Howard Hughes]] takes place in front of the Hercules, within its hangar, where Hughes briefly tells Tucker that whether the Hercules flies is not the point, as well as how to circumvent the "establishment" and Senator [[Homer S. Ferguson|Ferguson]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Janet |last=Maslin |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=940DE6D8103BF931A2575BC0A96E948260 |title=Review/Film: 'Tucker the Man and His Dream': Glimpsing the Soul of an Old Machine |newspaper=The New York Times |date=12 August 1988}}</ref>

In the 1991 adventure film ''[[The Rocketeer (film)|The Rocketeer]]'', hero Cliff Secord uses a large-scale model of the Hughes H-4 Hercules to escape some eager federal agents and Howard Hughes himself. After Secord glides the model to safety, Hughes expresses relief that the craft would actually fly.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Rocketeer |first=Peter |last=David |location=New York |publisher=Bantam Books |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-55329-322-7 |pages= 44, 211}}</ref>

In the video game ''[[L.A. Noire]]'' (2011) the player is able to enter the aircraft. Additionally, exterior and interior views of the H-4 Hercules aircraft appear in the opening introduction of the DLC mission, "Nicholson Electroplating".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/16711/new-la-noire-screens-from-the-nicholson-electroplating-arson-cas.html |title=New L.A. Noire Screens from the 'Nichsolson Electroplating' Arson Case |website=Rock Star Games |access-date=15 September 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Davison |first=Pete |url=http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/220627/l-a-noire-nicholson-electroplating-dlc-out-now |title=L.A. Noire Nicholson Electroplating DLC out now |website=Gamepro.com |date=22 June 2011 |access-date=20 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111203005137/http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/220627/l-a-noire-nicholson-electroplating-dlc-out-now/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 December 2011}}</ref>

The aircraft was the center of a con job in [[Turner Network Television|TNT]]'s drama series ''[[Leverage (American TV series)|Leverage]]'', Episode 5.01 "The Very Big Bird Job", which aired 15 July 2012, involved "selling" the Hercules. Part of the con involves convincing the mark that Hughes secretly gave the aircraft stealth capabilities.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thetvdb.com/?tab=episode&seriesid=82339&seasonid=487738&id=4286604&lid=7 |title=Leverage |website=[[TheTVDB]] |access-date=14 July 2013}}</ref>

==Hughes XF-11==
The 7 July 1946 maiden flight of the [[Hughes XF-11]] reconnaissance design which ended in a crash in [[Beverly Hills, California]], severely injuring pilot [[Howard Hughes]] was depicted in a 1977 telemovie, ''The Amazing Howard Hughes'' (with a [[Lockheed P-38 Lightning|P-38 Lightning]] standing in for the XF-11), and again in the 2004 [[Martin Scorsese]] film, ''[[The Aviator (2004 film)|The Aviator]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/XF-11_crash_site.htm |title=The Crash of the XF-11 7 July 1946 |website=Check Six |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref> with the aircraft depicted by a mock-up with flight rendered through CGI.<ref name="denning">{{cite web |url=http://www.airlinehistorymuseum.com/movie_1.htm |first=Larry |last=Denning |title=AHM 'Connie' at the Movies |website=airlinehistorymuseum.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225160657/http://www.airlinehistorymuseum.com/movie_1.htm |archive-date=25 February 2012}}</ref>

== IAR-80 ==
The [[IAR 80|IAR-80]] appears in the historical fiction book ''Eighty Flights of a Not-So-Much-Of-A-Fighter-Pilot''.{{cn|date=December 2023}}{{importance inline|This needs to be signficant appearance(s) to be listed here.|date=December 2023}} 

==ICON A5==
[[File:Icon A5 in the water.jpg|thumb|right|[[ICON A5]]]]

The [[ICON A5]] is the starter aircraft in ''[[Microsoft Flight]]''. It is included in all of the editions of ''[[Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-07-27|title=List of Microsoft Flight Simulator planes and aircraft|url=https://www.windowscentral.com/list-microsoft-flight-simulator-planes|access-date=2021-08-12|website=Windows Central}}</ref>

==Ikarus Kurir==
The 1973 film ''The Fifth Offensive'', starring [[Richard Burton]], had an [[Ikarus Kurir|Ikarus Kurir L]] playing the part of a Luftwaffe [[Fieseler Storch]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aeromovies.fr/articles.php?lng=eng&pg=825 |title=La Cinquième Offensive |website=Aeromovies.fr |access-date=11 June 2016 |language=fr}}</ref>

==Junkers Ju 52/3m==
A Swiss Air Force [[Junkers Ju 52|Junkers Ju 52/3m]] was used in the 1968 action thriller ''[[Where Eagles Dare]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.whereeaglesdare.com/library/index.php?page=articles&id=3 |title=Junkers JU-52 |last=Powell |first=William M. |date=May 1999 |access-date=19 May 2010}}</ref> The opening scene of the film shows the camouflaged Ju-52 flying at night over and through the Bavarian Alps en route to where the team of Allied infiltrators are dropped by parachute. The same aircraft rescues the main characters at the conclusion of the film.<ref>Dyer, Geoff. ''Broadsword Calling Danny Boy:On Where Eagles Dare''. Penguin UK, 2018.</ref>

A Ju-52 appears in the 1973 novel ''Band of Brothers'' by [[Ernest K. Gann]] in which an abandoned example is resurrected and flown on two engines by a team of pilots.<ref>Bright, Charles. D. ''Aviation Literature-A Changing Art''. Journal Article in ''Aerospace Historian'', Vol 31, No.1. Air-Force Historical Foundation, Spring/March 1984. p. 71.</ref>

Two Ju 52s appeared in one of the early scenes in the 2008 Second World War film ''[[Valkyrie (film)|Valkyrie]]'' directed by [[Bryan Singer]] and starring [[Tom Cruise]]. One aircraft was painted in a Luftwaffe scheme, the other in an all-silver finish.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.shootaviation.co.uk/on-location/junkers-ju52/ |title=Junkers Ju52 |website=Shoot Aviation |access-date=19 July 2012}}</ref>

In the second season of the television series ''[[Babylon Berlin]]'', characters Gereon Rath and Reinhold Gräf use a Ju 52 to inspect the then-secret German-operated [[Lipetsk fighter-pilot school]] in the Soviet Union. The appearance is anachronistic, as the episode takes place before the aircraft entered production.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://elpais.com/elpais/2021/02/09/viajero_astuto/1612880016_120306.html|title=Lipetsk, la escuela clandestina de los aviadores nazis en la Rusia de Stalin|last=Moreno|first=Isidoro|date=13 February 2021|work=EL PAÍS|url-access=limited|access-date=18 March 2021|language=es}}</ref>

== Junkers Ju 87 ==
The 1941 Nazi propaganda film ''[[Stukas (1941 film)|Stukas]]'', produced by [[Karl Ritter (director)|Karl Ritter]], described the wartime exploits of a squadron of [[Junkers Ju 87]] "Stuka" dive bombers and their pilots during the Invasion of France during World War II.<ref>{{cite book |last=Paris |first=Michael |title=From the Wright Brothers to Top Gun: Aviation, Nationalism, and Popular Cinema |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gdlRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA151|year=1995|publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-0-7190-4074-0 |pages=151–152}}</ref>

==Junkers W 33==
[[File:Junkers W33.jpg|thumb|[[Junkers W 33]]]]
A replica [[Junkers W 33]] appears in the 1985 Australian TV mini-series ''[[Flight into Hell]]'', a dramatisation of the [[1932 Kimberley rescue]] of German aviators [[Hans Bertram]] and Adolph Klausmann who, during an attempt to circumnavigate the world, crash-landed in a remote region of North-West Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://museum.wa.gov.au/mac-aviation-archaeology/fallenangels/atlantis.html|title=atlantis|website=museum.wa.gov.au}}</ref>

==Kaman SH-2 Seasprite==
The Transformers Combaticon named [[Vortex (Transformers)|Vortex]] disguises itself as an [[Kaman SH-2G Super Seasprite|SH-2G Super Seasprite]].{{sfnp|Bellomo|2007|p=114}}

== Kamov Ka-27 ==
A pair of [[Kamov Ka-27|Ka-27 Helix]] helicopters appear throughout [[Martin Campbell]]'s 1994 film ''[[No Escape (1994 film)|No Escape]]''. The helicopters transport inmates to a prison island, and patrol the shoreline for would be escapees.<ref name="RotaryActionN">{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/n.html |title=Films – N |website=Rotary Action |access-date=14 May 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923180736/http://www.rotaryaction.com/n.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref>

==Kellett K-3 Autogyro==
In the 1934 screwball comedy ''[[It Happened One Night]]'', the [[fop]]pish bridegroom "King" Westley ([[Jameson Thomas]]) arrives at his own wedding "piloting" a [[Kellett Autogiro Corporation]] [[Kellett K-2|K-3]] [[autogyro]], c/n 16, NC12691,<ref name="dmairfield.com">{{Cite web|url=https://dmairfield.org/|title=Welcome to the Website of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register|website=dmairfield.org}}</ref> (although the real pilot can be seen crouching in the cockpit after Westley deplanes).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/It_Happened_one_night.html |title=It Happened One Night – Screenplay by Robert Riskin |website=Daily Script |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmsite.org/itha4.html |title=It Happened One Night (1934) |website=Filmsite.org |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://midnightoil.squarespace.com/it-happened-one-night-1934 |title=It Happened One Night (1934) |first=Catherine |last=Savard |website=Midnight Oil: Movies and More |year=2016 |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref> The same autogyro appeared in the 1933 [[W. C. Fields]] film ''[[International House (1933 film)|International House]]''.<ref name="dmairfield.com"/>

==L-5 Sentinel==
A [[Stinson L-5 Sentinel]] was shown in the 1969 [[Mike Nichols]] film ''[[Catch-22 (film)|Catch-22]]'' as the aircraft that a pilot commits suicide in after accidentally killing another squadron member with his propeller.<ref>{{cite book |last=Haynes |first=Max |title=Warbirds |year=2006 |publisher=Zenith Imprint |isbn=978-0-7603-2662-6 |page=80}}</ref> The title of [[Joseph Heller]]'s 1961 [[satirical]] [[Catch-22|novel of the same name]] has entered the lexicon.

==Lamson Alcor==
The one-of-a-kind [[Lamson L-106 Alcor]] pressurized high-altitude research [[Glider (sailplane)|sailplane]] played a key role in the 1977 book ''Sierra Sierra'', by John Joss. In the novel, Marine fighter pilot Mark Lewis saw his best friend, John O'Halloran, killed on the last day of the [[Vietnam War]]. When he travels to [[Seattle]], Washington, to explain O'Halloran's death to his family he discovers that O'Halloran's father and sister are engaged in building a research glider, the Alcor, in which O'Halloran was to have set world records for altitude and distance, when he returned from Vietnam. Instead Lewis takes O'Halloran's place in the project, while trying to put his own life back together after the war, flying the Alcor in the [[mountain wave]] of the [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|Sierra Nevada]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Joss |first=John |title=Sierra Sierra |location=Los Altos, California |publisher=Soaring Press |year=1977 |isbn=978-0-930514-09-9}}</ref>

==Lockheed Constellation==
[[Lockheed Constellation]]s of [[Trans World Airlines]] were depicted in the 2004 [[Martin Scorsese]] film ''[[The Aviator (2004 film)|The Aviator]]''. The preserved Super Constellation, "Star of America", N6937C, of the [[Airline History Museum]] was filmed at [[San Bernardino International Airport]], California, for this [[Howard Hughes]] biopic. A fleet of grounded Connies was rendered in CGI.<ref name="denning"/>

The same aircraft (N6937C) was also used in the 1992 film ''[[Voyager (film)|Voyager]]'' which starred [[Sam Shepard]] and was directed by [[Volker Schlöndorff]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://airchive.com/html/airplanes-and-airports/aircraft-and-airliner-cabins-cockpits-and-flight-decks/national-airline-history-museum-kansas-city-twa-lockheed-constellation-save-a-connie-first-class-/8600 |title=Trans World Airlines Lockheed Constellation "Save A Connie" First Class Cabin at National Airline History Museum, Kansas City |website=Airchive.com |access-date=29 July 2012}}</ref>

==Lockheed C-141 Starlifter==
[[File:C-141 flying.jpg|thumb|[[Lockheed C-141 Starlifter]]]]
In Jimmie H. Butler's 1991 novel ''Red Lightning, Black Thunder'', the US deploys a [[Lockheed C-141 Starlifter]] out of Hawaii in a mission to launch [[Anti-satellite weapon|ASAT]] missiles against a Soviet network of killer satellites.<ref>{{cite book|last=Butler |first=Jimmie H. |title=Red Lightning, Black Thunder |year=1991 |publisher=Dutton Adult |isbn=978-0-525-93377-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/redlightningblac00butl_1}}</ref>

==Lockheed P-3 Orion==
The [[Hainan Island incident]] was referenced in the television series ''[[JAG (TV series)|JAG]]'', in the 2001 episode "[[JAG (season 7)|Dog Robber]]" during season 7. In this episode based on the real incident, a US Navy [[Lockheed P-3 Orion|Lockheed EP-3 Orion]] collides in mid-air with a Chinese fighter. The EP-3 crew then make an emergency landing at [[Fuzhou Yixu Airport|Fuzhou air base]] in China. The crew and aircraft are detained as in the real incident. A US delegation led by [[Characters of JAG#The CAG (Rear Admiral Thomas Boone, USN)|Admiral Thomas Boone]] flies to the base and secures the release of the crew, but the aircraft remains in Chinese custody. Against orders a Navy Lieutenant flies into Chinese airspace and destroys the EP-3 before the Chinese have a chance to study it in detail. This leads to him being court-martialed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tvshowsonline24.com/watch/JAG-season-7-episode-10 |title=JAG episode "Dog Robber" |website=tvshowsonline24.com |year=2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012170041/http://tvshowsonline24.com/watch/JAG-season-7-episode-10 |archive-date=12 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Lockheed P-80/F-80 Shooting Star==
[[Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star|Lockheed F-80 Shooting Stars]] appear in the 1953 novel ''Troubling of a Star'' by Walt Sheldon which portrayed a USAF unit stationed in occupied Japan during the Korean War.<ref>Axelsson, Arne. ''Restrained Response: American Novels of the Cold War and Korea 1945–62''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1990. p. 200.</ref>

==Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior==
A [[Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior]], registration NC17342 appears in the 1940 film ''[[Flight Angels]]'' as an experimental aircraft called the "Stratosphere". This particular aircraft also appears in the films ''[[Rosalie (1937 film)|Rosalie]]'', ''[[Nick Carter, Master Detective (film)|Nick Carter, Master Detective]]'', ''[[Secret Service of the Air]]'', and ''[[Murder Over New York]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/1995Vol_11/logosandlegs.pdf |title= Lockheeds, Logos, and Legs|website=tighar.org |access-date=2 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aeromovies.fr/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=658&tconfig=0 |title= Nick Carter Master Detective |website=www.aeromovies.fr |access-date=2 February 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210130203745/http://www.aeromovies.fr/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=658&tconfig=0|archive-date= 30 January 2021|url-status=dead}}</ref>

A Model 12 Electra Junior appeared as the French airliner in the climactic final scene from the 1942 film ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]''.<ref name="Casablanca">{{cite journal |date=December 2001 |title=Of all the gin joints... |journal=Air Classics |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3901/is_200112/ai_n9016855/ |access-date=17 January 2010}} {{Dead link |date=October 2010 |bot=H3llBot}}</ref> (The aircraft carries the [[Air France]] [[Air France#Liveries and logo|seahorse logo]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.airfrancelasaga.com/2008/05/reaching-for-the-stars/ |title=Reaching for the stars |first=Marc |last=Branchu |date=14 May 2008 |website=Air France |access-date=17 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809110832/http://corporate.airfrance.com/airfrancelasaga/news/reaching-for-the-stars/ |archive-date=9 August 2011}}</ref> although Air France did not operate the type.) A "cut-out" stood in for a real aircraft in many shots.<ref name="Casablanca"/>

A pair of restored Lockheed Model 12 Electra Juniors was used in the filming of the 2009 movie ''[[Amelia (film)|Amelia]]'', a biopic of aviator [[Amelia Earhart]] which starred [[Hilary Swank]] and [[Richard Gere]]. One of the aircraft was repainted to resemble a [[Lockheed Model 10 Electra|Lockheed Model 10]] which was the aircraft in which Earhart and her navigator [[Fred Noonan]] were flying when they disappeared in 1937. The owner and restorer of the latter aircraft, pilot Joe Sheppard, flew the plane during filming and he had to shave off his moustache and wear a wig to resemble Swank.<ref name="auto3"/>

==Lockheed Hudson==
[[Lockheed Hudson]]s appeared in the films ''[[A Yank in the R.A.F.]]'' (1941) and ''[[Captains of the Clouds]]'' (1942)<ref name="MP14">Merriam Press. ''World War 2 in Review No. 18: Lockheed Hudson''. Lulu Press Inc, 2017. p. 14.</ref>

A vintage flying Lockheed Hudson IV appeared in the 2005 Second World War film ''[[The Great Raid]]'' directed by [[John Dahl]]. The film was based on the book by [[William Breuer]]. The Hudson now resides in the [[Temora Aviation Museum]] in Australia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aussieairliners.org/hudson/vh-bnj/vhbnj.html |title=VH-BNJ Lockheed Hudson IVA |website=Aussieairliners.org |access-date=1 September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aviationmuseum.com.au/news/2005/06/makeover-for-museum%E2%80%99s-lockheed-hudson/ |title=Makeover for Museum's Lockheed Hudson |website=Temora Aviation Museum |date=24 June 2005 |access-date=1 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324184218/http://www.aviationmuseum.com.au/news/2005/06/makeover-for-museum%E2%80%99s-lockheed-hudson/ |archive-date=24 March 2012}}</ref>

Lockheed Hudsons appeared in the 2006 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) mini-series ''[[Above and Beyond (miniseries)|Above and Beyond]]'' which portrayed the work of the [[Atlantic Ferry Organization|Atlantic Ferry Organisation]] in flying military aircraft across the North Atlantic from Canada to deliver them to the RAF in Great Britain during the Second World War. An actual Hudson appeared in the series along with a number of others recreated with CGI.<ref name="MP14"/>

==Lockheed JetStar==
[[Auric Goldfinger]]'s private aircraft in the 1964 [[James Bond]] film ''[[Goldfinger (film)|Goldfinger]]'' is a [[Lockheed JetStar|Lockheed L-1329 JetStar]] with "Auric Enterprises" on the nose. A similar version designated C-140 in US military service appears without markings as a U.S. [[Military Air Transport Service]] plane to transport Bond to Washington to meet the US president before the film's climactic showdown between Bond and Goldfinger.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bmt216a.dk/Vehicles/BMT216Avehicle.html?id=46 |title=BMT 216A/ Lockheed C-140 Jetstar |website=The James Bond Vehicle Library |access-date=February 20, 2022}}</ref>

In the 1968 [[John Wayne]] film ''[[Hellfighters (film)|Hellfighters]]'', the JetStar is featured prominently.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/2/t/45938.aspx |title= Quiz: What airplane did John Wayne fly in the movie "Hellfighters?" |date= |access-date=15 October 2023}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=October 2023}}

The demise of a Lockheed JetStar and its passengers features prominently in the opening chapters of [[Cormac McCarthy]]'s 2022 novel [[The Passenger (McCarthy novel)|The Passenger]], forming a plot point around which the majority of the book revolves.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/22/the-passenger-by-cormac-mccarthy-exclusive-extract |title=The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy - exclusive extract |newspaper=The Guardian |date=22 October 2022 |location=London |access-date=18 November 2022}}</ref>

==Lockheed L-1011 TriStar==
Several [[Lockheed L-1011 TriStar]]s were depicted in the 1990 [[action film]] ''[[Die Hard 2]]'', with two large models constructed by [[Industrial Light and Magic]] "flown" on wires for the cameras through "storm clouds" made of non-toxic vaporized [[mineral oil]]. Filming was done at a remote airstrip in the [[Mojave Desert]] in California. Whipped by the [[Santa Ana winds]] coming through the [[Tehachapi Pass]] into the valley, the smoke effect contributed convincing heavy weather to the shots.{{sfnp|Cotta Vaz|Duignan|1996|pp=148–151}}

The Lockheed L-1011 Tristar appears in the 1992 film ''[[Passenger 57]]'' as the location of a terrorist hijacking.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Gerosa |first1=Melina |title=Behind the scenes of ''Passenger 57'' |url=https://ew.com/article/1992/11/06/behind-scenes-passenger-57/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=17 September 2019}}</ref> The aircraft, registration N330EA, was formerly operated commercially by [[Eastern Airlines]] and was painted in the livery of the fictional airline ''Atlantic International'' for the film.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hoppe |first1=Perry |title=Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar 1 - Atlantic International |url=https://www.airliners.net/photo/Atlantic-International/Lockheed-L-1011-385-1-TriStar-1/2155184?qsp=eJwtjbEKwzAMRP9Fc4cWQ4dsLnRtO/QHhCxSgxsbSYWGkH%2BPYrId7x53C1CdjP/2nhvDAMoo9IETNBT8KgwLCI9ZTdBynSLZD4t7jxDO9%2BieVrHb7CShcSTiZpwO/pTEsles1CdHv7h4YHn1DOHqPGVtBfsGG%2BYC67oBPUYyAg%3D%3D |website=Airliners.net |access-date=17 September 2019}}</ref>

An L-1011 is used in the Stephen King TV miniseries ''[[The Langoliers (miniseries)|the Langoliers]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shales |first1=Tom |title=Sweeps Showdown |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1995/05/14/sweeps-showdown/6e2a90e0-3948-47ad-b034-a60508308434/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=21 June 2019}}</ref> Registration N31018, c/n 193B-1065 built in 1974. Formerly of TWA-Trans World Airlines.

In ''[[Final Approach (2007 film)|Final Approach]]'' terrorists take over an L-1011, the actual plane being N140SC currently operated as [[Stargazer (aircraft)|Stargazer]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Final Approach (2007 TV Movie) - The Internet Movie Plane Database |url=https://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Final_Approach_(2007_TV_Movie)#Lockheed_L-1011-1_TriStar |access-date=2022-06-02 |website=www.impdb.org}}</ref>

Although a [[#Boeing 777|Boeing 777]] is mentioned as aircraft for the ill-fated [[Oceanic Airlines]] Flight 815 central to the ABC television series ''[[Lost (2004 TV series)|Lost]]'', the fuselage used to represent the wreckage on the beach was a [[Lockheed L-1011 TriStar|Lockheed L-1011-385]] formerly operated by [[Delta Air Lines]].<ref name="Lost">{{cite web |title=LOST TV series in Hawaii |url=https://l1011.homestead.com/Lst783.html |website=L1011 Homestead |access-date=2 April 2018}}</ref><ref>Ryan, Tim. [http://starbulletin.com/2005/06/14/features/story1.html "The 'Lost' aircraft made 28,822 flights before its 'crash{{'"}}] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513075416/http://starbulletin.com/2005/06/14/features/story1.html |date=13 May 2008 }}. ''[[Honolulu Star-Bulletin]]'', 14 June 2005.</ref>

==Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird==
In the 1985 film ''[[D.A.R.Y.L.]]'' the protagonist steals an [[SR-71 Blackbird]] from an air base while trying to escape from government agents.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.moviemonday.com/ScienceFiction/tn5.htm |title=D.A.R.Y.L (A-) |website=Movie Monday.com |access-date=23 August 2011}}</ref>

In Payne Harrison's 1990 novel ''Storming Intrepid'', the US deploys an SR-71 over the USSR on an [[ELINT]] mission to record communications between the hijacked shuttle ''Intrepid'' and Soviet commanders on the ground. The Soviet air defenses attempt to shoot down the aircraft as it tries to get out of Soviet airspace. The aircraft briefly flames out, but successfully recovers and narrowly escapes a missile trap by [[Mikoyan MiG-31|MiG-31]] interceptors.<ref name="HarrisonPayne"/>

Although already retired from service for around a decade at the time of the film's release, the SR-71 Blackbird appears as the alt-mode of the character [[Jetfire]], an over-the-hill Transformer near the end of his days, in the 2009 film ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'' and its toy line.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hasbro.com/shop/details.cfm?guid=38049C09-19B9-F369-D906-BE5F6E2B12F7&product_id=24498&src=endeca |title=Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – Leader Jetfire |access-date=9 December 2009 |website=Hasbro |year=2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090728072946/http://www.hasbro.com/shop/details.cfm?guid=38049C09-19B9-F369-D906-BE5F6E2B12F7&product_id=24498&src=endeca |archive-date=28 July 2009}}</ref>

==Lockheed T-33 T-Bird==
A [[Lockheed T-33]], the trainer version of the [[Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star]], appeared in the 1955 science-fiction film ''[[This Island Earth]]''. In one of the early scenes of the film, the hero scientist Cal (played by [[Rex Reason]]) is about to land his T-33 at the desert airfield near his government-owned laboratory when the aircraft becomes ensnared by some unknown alien force. The film achieved renewed fame when it was spoofed in the 1996 comedy ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Ramer |first=Dan |url=http://www.dvdfile.com/reviews/dvdreviews/27599-this-island-earth |title=This Island Earth |website=DVDFile |date=15 September 2006 |access-date=20 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012214528/http://www.dvdfile.com/reviews/dvdreviews/27599-this-island-earth |archive-date=12 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

A T-33 played the role of a Soviet "Yak-12" in the 1957 Cold War romantic/drama ''[[Jet Pilot (film)|Jet Pilot]]'' which starred [[John Wayne]] and [[Janet Leigh]] and was directed by [[Howard Hughes]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pimaair.org/aircraft-by-name/item/lockheed-t-33a-shooting-star-2 |title=Shooting Star |website=Pima Air & Space Museum |access-date=13 June 2014}}</ref>

==Lockheed U-2==
[[File:Usaf.u2.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|[[Lockheed U-2]] ]]

In 2015, [[Steven Spielberg]]'s film ''[[Bridge of Spies (film)|Bridge of Spies]]'' recreated the 1960 events of a [[Lockheed U-2]] piloted by [[Francis Gary Powers]] being shot down while on a reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/10/19/the-true-story-behind-the-u2-shoot-down-in-bridge-of-spies/ |title=The true story behind the U2 shoot-down in "Bridge of Spies" |author=Thomas Gibbons-Neff |date=October 19, 2015 |newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=9 August 2017}}</ref>

The U-2 made an important appearance in the 2000 [[Beacon Pictures]] [[docudrama]] ''[[Thirteen Days (film)|Thirteen Days]]'' as the aircraft that initially detected Soviet missiles being deployed in Cuba in October 1962, and was later shot down, killing pilot Maj. [[Rudolf Anderson, Jr.]] (played by [[Charles Esten]]),<ref>{{cite report |date=28 October 1962 |title=Supplement 8 to Joint Evaluation of Soviet Missile Threat in Cuba |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency}}</ref> the only combat casualty of the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Travers |first=Peter |date=18 December 2000 |title=Thirteen Days |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/5948687/review/5948688/thirteen_days |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=12 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203140838/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/5948687/review/5948688/thirteen_days |archive-date=3 December 2007}}</ref>

In the 1980s television series ''[[Call to Glory]]'', the U-2 was the "main ride" of U.S. Air Force Colonel Raynor Sarnac from the October 1962 Cuba Crisis to 1979.<ref>[http://www.tv.com/shows/call-to-glory/episodes/ "Call to Glory"]. tv.com. Retrieved: 13 September 2009.</ref>

==Lockheed Vega==
A [[Lockheed Vega|Lockheed Vega DL-1B Special]], one of only two that remain in flying condition, was used in the 1976 television miniseries ''[[Amelia Earhart (miniseries)|Amelia Earhart]]'', starring [[Susan Clark]] as the [[aviatrix]].{{sfnp|Allen|1988|p=179}}

A [[Stinson Reliant]] stood in for [[Lockheed Vega|Lockheed Vega DL-1 Special]], G-ABGK, c/n 155, ''Puck'', race number 36,{{sfnp|Allen|1988|p=184}} in the 1991 Australian mini-series ''[[The Great Air Race (miniseries)|The Great Air Race]]'', about the 1934 London to [[Melbourne]] [[MacRobertson Air Race|MacRobertson Trophy Air Race]].<ref name="GtAirRace62"/> It is also known as ''Half a World Away''.<ref name="OzSmlScn203"/>

==Martin MB-2==
The 1927 [[William Wellman]] film ''Wings'' featured [[Martin MB-2]]s among many types depicting World War I aircraft.<ref name="historynet1"/>

== McDonnell Douglas DC-10 ==
[[File:McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10, American Airlines AN1021178.jpg|thumb|[[McDonnell Douglas DC-10|MD DC-10]]]]
In [[Michael Crichton|Michael Crichton's]] ''[[Airframe (novel)|Airframe]]'', one of the characters uses the crash of [[American Airlines Flight 191]] which involved a [[McDonnell Douglas DC-10|DC-10]] to describe how a highly publicized accident can destroy a good airplane's reputation because "a media industry that has grown hostile and shallow with the ascendancy of television always jumps to the wrong conclusion."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/05/books/a-thriller-not-to-carry-on-your-next-plane-trip.html |title=A Thriller Not to Carry On Your Next Plane Trip |last=Lehmann-haupt |first=Christopher |date=5 December 1996 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2017-07-28 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

== MBB Bo 105 ==
[[James Bond]] fights the crew of the [[MBB Bo 105]] helicopter as it flies over [[Mexico City|Mexico City's]] [[Day of the Dead]] parade in the 2015 film ''[[Spectre (2015 film)|Spectre]]''<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.flyingmag.com/aircraft/helicopters/chuck-aaron-flies-james-bond-spectre |title=Chuck Aaron Flies in James Bond's 'Spectre' |website=Flying |date=12 November 2015 |access-date=2019-03-02}}</ref>

==Messerschmitt Bf 108==
[[File:Messerschmitt 108 Taifun 02 (4818329736).jpg|thumb|[[Messerschmitt Bf 108]]]]
Two [[Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun]]s depicted [[Messerschmitt Bf 109]] fighters in the 1962 film ''[[The Longest Day (film)|The Longest Day]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.strijdbewijs.nl/film/longeng.htm |title=The Longest Day |website=D-Day Battlefield Normandy |access-date=14 May 2010}}</ref> and the type substituted for unavailable ''Luftwaffe'' fighters again in the 1964 film ''[[633 Squadron]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hardwick |first1=Jack |first2=Ed |last2=Schnepf |title=A Buff's Guide to Aviation Movies |journal=Air Progress Aviation |volume=7 |number=1 |date=Spring 1983}}</ref>

==Messerschmitt Bf 109==
27 Spanish [[Hispano Aviacion Ha 1112|Hispano Aviación HA-1112 M1L 'Buchon']] single-engined fighters, [[Messerschmitt Bf 109]]s built under license in Spain, were used in the 1969 film ''[[Battle of Britain (film)|Battle of Britain]]''. The Buchons were altered to look more like correct Bf 109Es, adding mock machine guns and cannon, redundant tailplane struts, and removing the rounded wingtips.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Crump |first=Bill |title=Bandits on Film |journal=FlyPast |date=October 2007 |page=73}}</ref>

Computer-generated images of Bf 109Gs appear in the 2012 Second World War aerial film ''[[Red Tails]]'' directed by [[Anthony Hemingway]] and produced by [[Lucasfilm]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/movie-review-red-tails/ |first=Steven |last=Hoarn |title=Red Tails Movie Review |website=Defense Media Network |date=16 January 2012 |access-date=30 November 2012}}</ref>

A computer-generated Bf 109 also appears in the 2002 war film ''[[Hart's War]]'' which starred [[Colin Farrell]] and [[Bruce Willis]] and was based on the 1999 novel of the [[Hart's War (novel)|same name]] by [[John Katzenbach]]. In the film, a Bf 109 engages in a dogfight with a P-51 above the POW camp where the film is set and the former is shot down, crashing into one of the camp's guard-posts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dmnnewswire.digitalmedianet.com/article/Pixel-Magic-Uses-REALVIZ-MatchMover-for-Flight-Combat-Scenes-in-Harts-War-9151 |title=Pixel Magic Uses REALVIZ MatchMover for Flight Combat Scenes in Hart's War |website=DMN Newswire |date=4 April 2002 |access-date=15 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060556/http://dmnnewswire.digitalmedianet.com/article/Pixel-Magic-Uses-REALVIZ-MatchMover-for-Flight-Combat-Scenes-in-Harts-War-9151 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Messerschmitt Bf 110==
A [[Messerschmitt Bf 110]] appears in the 1952 British war film ''[[Angels One Five]]''. In the film, the Luftwaffe raids 'Pimpernel' Squadron's airfield at Neethly. During the attack, Pilot Officer 'Septic' Baird ([[John Gregson]]), although not yet an operational pilot, runs to a spare Hawker Hurricane fighter and takes off. He engages and shoots down a Bf-110 over the airfield and is later seen proudly inspecting the crashed aircraft although Baird is later reprimanded by his CO because during the battle, he carelessly left his radio stuck on 'transmit', preventing other pilots from communicating.<ref>MacKenzie, S.P. ''Battle of Britain on Screen:'The Few' in British Film and Television Drama''. Edinburgh University Press, 2007. p. 51-52.</ref> The Messerschmitt used in the film was a captured Bf-110G-4 which was later scrapped after filming.<ref>Beck, Simon. D. ''The Aircraft-Spotter's Film and Television Companion''. McFarland Publishers, 2016. p. 26.</ref>

==Messerschmitt Me 262==
[[File:Me 262 flight show at ILA 2006.jpg|thumb|[[Messerschmitt Me 262]] replica]]

In the 2000 alternate history novel ''[[Fox on the Rhine]]'', by [[Douglas Niles]] and [[Michael Dobson (author)|Michael Dobson]], the ''[[Luftwaffe]]'', under [[Adolf Galland]]'s command, prioritizes the development of the [[Messerschmitt Me 262]]. A number of squadrons are used to maul a heavy bomber raid in concert with other, propeller-driven, fighters, but worker sabotage of the engines affects their operational performance.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Douglas |last1=Niles |author-link1=Douglas Niles |first2=Michael |last2=Dobson |author-link2=Michael Dobson (author) |title=Fox on the Rhine |publisher=Forge Books |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-31286-894-9 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/foxonrhine0000nile}}</ref>

In the second and last issue of the 2001 DC Vertigo miniseries ''Enemy Ace: War in Heaven'', lead character Hans von Hammer leads a ''Luftwaffe'' flight against USAAF bomber formations with him piloting a scarlet red Me 262 that has no swastika tail insignia. Seeing the hopelessness of the war, he and his men later destroy the remaining 262s in their control before surrendering to a US Army unit.<ref>Ennis, Garth, and Kanigher, Robert. ''Enemy Ace: War in Heaven'' No. 2, DC/Vertigo Comics, May 2001.</ref>

==MiGs==
As was common in the 1950s, "[[List of Mikoyan and MiG aircraft|MiGs]]" (presumably [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15|MiG−15s]], as the story is set in Korea) appear in the 1956 novel ''[[The Hunters (novel)|The Hunters]]'' by [[James Salter]] about USAF fighter pilots.<ref name="theparisreview1"/> As was common in the 1950s, the MiGs are portrayed by [[Republic F-84F Thunderstreak]]s in the 1958 film ''[[The Hunters (1958 film)|The Hunters]]''<ref name="aerofilesFilmsH"/>

MiGs were also played on screen by the [[Northrop F-5|F-5 Tiger II]] in 1986's ''[[Top Gun]]'' <ref name="Lamar"/><ref name="Lindsey_Top_Gun"/> and the 1998 ''[[JAG (TV series)|JAG]]'' episode 3.24.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tv.com/jag/to-russia-with-love-1/episode/5199/summary.html |title=To Russia with Love |website=TV.com |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-date=6 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006122341/http://www.tv.com/jag/to-russia-with-love-1/episode/5199/summary.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>

MiGs appear in the 2007 novel ''[[Ascent (novel)|Ascent]]'' by UK author [[Jed Mercurio]], a fictional work about a Soviet pilot Yefgeni Yeremin covertly flying MiGs during the Korean War.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3663555/The-cosmonaut-who-shot-the-Moon.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3663555/The-cosmonaut-who-shot-the-Moon.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=The cosmonaut who shot the Moon |first=Toby |last=Clements |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=11 March 2007 |location=London |access-date=10 October 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The book was later adapted into a graphic novel in 2011, illustrated by Wesley Robins.<ref>{{cite news |first=Rachel |last=Cooke |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/11/ascent-wesley-robins-mercurio-review |title=Ascent by Wesley Robins and Jed Mercurio |newspaper=The Observer |date=11 September 2011 |location=London |access-date=10 October 2012}}</ref>

==Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15==
A flyable [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15]] appears in the 2022 Korean War drama film ''[[Devotion (2022 film)|Devotion]]''.<ref name=EAA11-22/><ref name=blacklabel/>

==Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21==
The Indian (Hindi) films ''[[Silsila (1981 film)|Silsila]]'' (1981), ''[[Border (1997 film)|Border]]'' and ''[[Rang De Basanti]]'' (2006) depicted the [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2006-01-10/news-interviews/27792821_1_iaf-green-signal-air-marshall-ahluwalia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020195503/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2006-01-10/news-interviews/27792821_1_iaf-green-signal-air-marshall-ahluwalia |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 October 2012 |title=AF gives all clear signal to Aamir's Rang de Basanti |date=10 January 2006 |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=23 March 2008}}</ref>

==Mikoyan MiG-29==
The [[Mikoyan MiG-29]] is the alternate form of the figure [[Dreadwing]] as well as its [[redeco]]s [[Overcast (Transformers)|Overcast]] and [[Fearswoop]] from the 2007 and 2009 ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' film toy lines.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bwtf.com/toyreviews/movie2007/overcast |title=Transformers 2007 Movie Overcast Toy Review |last=Yee |first=Benson |year=2008 |website=Ben's World of Transformers |access-date=19 January 2010 |archive-date=28 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110128163623/http://bwtf.com/toyreviews/movie2007/overcast |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Mil Mi-8/-17==
A [[Mil Mi-17]] is used in the 2001 film ''[[Behind Enemy Lines (2001 film)|Behind Enemy Lines]]'' as a [[NATO]] [[combat search and rescue]] (CSAR) helicopter that makes an attempt to rescue a downed airman.<ref name="RotaryActionB">{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/b.html |title=Films – B |website=Rotary Action |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923174548/http://www.rotaryaction.com/b.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref>

At the beginning of the 2002 film ''[[Die Another Day]]'', a [[Mil Mi-8]]T is commandeered by [[James Bond in film|James Bond]], to infiltrate the antagonists' base.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/dieanday.html |title=Die Another Day |website=Rotary Action |access-date=8 February 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141007234446/http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/dieanday.html |archive-date =7 October 2014}}</ref>

The aircraft also appeared in the 2006 film ''[[Blood Diamond (film)|Blood Diamond]]'', directed by [[Edward Zwick]]; it was used by the protagonist to reach a refugee camp.<ref name="RotaryActionB"/>

An Mil Mi-8 helicopter appears in a major sequence in the 2019 Netflix film ''[[Triple Frontier (film)|Triple Frontier]]'' directed by [[J. C. Chandor|J C Chandor]] and starring [[Ben Affleck]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thefilmstage.com/reviews/triple-frontier-review-j-c-chandor-evokes-the-treasure-of-sierra-madre-in-familiar-morality-tale/ |title='Triple Frontier' Review: J.C. Chandor Evokes 'The Treasure of Sierra Madre' in Familiar Morality Tale|date=6 March 2019|website=thefilmstage.com|access-date=27 May 2019}}</ref>

Mi-8s appear in the 2019 HBO mini-series ''[[Chernobyl (miniseries)|Chernobyl]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/lithuania/articles/chernobyl-tv-show-real-filming-locations/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/lithuania/articles/chernobyl-tv-show-real-filming-locations/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title='Radiation would have damaged the film kit': where Sky's Chernobyl was really shot|first=Annabel Fenwick|last=Elliott|date=4 June 2019|work=The Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Mi-8s were among the Soviet helicopters used to firefight and monitor the exploded reactor in 1986.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.collectivemag.com/chernobyl-helicopters/|title=The Forgotten Helicopters of Chernobyl|date=26 April 2016|access-date=7 October 2019|archive-date=25 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925132846/http://www.collectivemag.com/chernobyl-helicopters/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the series, helicopters are seen dropping sand-bags onto the fire and one helicopter is destroyed in a crash. The series portrays the incident as taking place shortly after the initial explosion at the reactor but in reality, the crash occurred some weeks later.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1138870/Chernobyl-Dr-Claire-Corkill-inaccuracies-helicopter-crash-This-Morning-HBO-Sky-video |title=Chernobyl on HBO: Expert reveals how helicopter scene was changed|first=Liam|last=Beard|date=11 June 2019|website=Express.co.uk}}</ref>

==Mil Mi-24 'Hind'==
[[File:Mil Mi 24 - RIAT 2007 (2375342192).jpg|thumb|[[Mil Mi-24]] helicopter]]
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A [[Mil Mi-24]] helicopter appears in the 1997 film ''[[Air Force One (film)|Air Force One]]''. The aircraft is used to retrieve a Russian prisoner in exchange for the [[List of fictional United States Presidents G–M#M|US President]], who is being held captive.<ref name="RotaryActionA" />

The Mi-24 appears numerous times in the ''[[Metal Gear]]'' video game series, starting from the 1987 MSX original.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.techtimes.com/articles/80516/20150831/the-complete-metal-gear-solid-timeline-the-msx-original-through-guns-of-the-patriots.htm |title=The Complete 'Metal Gear Solid' Timeline: The MSX Original Through 'Guns of the Patriots' |website=Tech Times|date=31 August 2015}}</ref> Its appearance as a boss battle in the 1998 game ''[[Metal Gear Solid (1998 video game)|Metal Gear Solid]]'' is probably the most famous instance.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/us/games/metal-gear/278233/metal-gear-solid-voice-actors-night-before-metal-gear |title=Metal Gear Solid Voice Actors Read The Night Before Metal Gear |website=Den of Geek|date=18 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scified.com/news/metal-gear-movie-concept-art-hints-at-jordan-vogt-roberts-vision |title=Metal Gear movie concept art hints at Jordan Vogt-Roberts vision! |website=Scified}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://segmentnext.com/2018/06/13/snake-in-super-smash-bros-will-still-be-voiced-by-david-hayter/ |title=Snake in Super Smash Bros Will Still Be Voiced By David Hayter |website=Segment Next|date=12 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.pcgamer.com/the-voices-of-liquid-and-solid-snake-reunite-to-perform-the-night-before-metal-gear/ |title=The voices of Liquid and Solid Snake reunite to perform The Night Before Metal Gear |newspaper=Pc Gamer|date=17 December 2018 |last1=Fenlon |first1=Wes}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gamesradar.com/metal-gear-solid-fan-recreates-the-games-intro-area-in-lego-worlds-snake-has-never-been-so-cute/ |title=Metal Gear Solid fan recreates the game's intro area in Lego Worlds - Snake has never been so cute |website=GamesRadar|date=28 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.a90skid.com/metal-gear-solid-ultimate-review/ |title=Metal Gear Solid - Ultimate Review |website=A 90s Kid|date=11 March 2018}}</ref>

The helicopter is used extensively in the 2005 film ''[[The 9th Company]]'', which fictionally depicts the [[Battle for Hill 3234]] where [[345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment|Soviet Army paratroopers]] defend their post against [[Mujahideen]] fighters. It was especially employed to eliminate the Mujahideen's last wave of attack in the film's climactic battle.<ref name="RotaryActionN"/>

In the 2006 film ''[[Blood Diamond (film)|Blood Diamond]]'', a Mi-24 is employed to attack a rebel village.<ref name="RotaryActionB" />

The 2007 film ''[[Charlie Wilson's War (film)|Charlie Wilson's War]]'' portrays the Mi-24 as used in the [[Soviet–Afghan War]]. [[Mujahideen]] use [[FIM-92 Stinger]] missiles supplied through US Congressman [[Charlie Wilson (Texas politician)|Charlie Wilson]]'s efforts to shoot down [[Soviet]] Mi-24s.<ref name="RotaryActionC"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Charlie Wilson's War |url=http://explodinghelicopter.blogspot.com/2011/11/charlie-wilsons-war.html |website=Exploding Helicopter |access-date=30 January 2015}}</ref>

The helicopter is used by the antagonist to flee a Moscow rooftop in the 2013 film ''[[A Good Day to Die Hard]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/gdayhard.html |title=A Good Day to Die Hard |website=Rotary Action |access-date=10 May 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140513010817/http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/gdayhard.html |archive-date =13 May 2014}}</ref>

In the 2022 film ''[[Top Gun: Maverick]]'', a Mi-24 is used by the enemy in an attempt to kill Pete "Maverick" Mitchell after his aircraft was shot down, only for the hostile Mi-24 to be shot down by Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Larenas |first=Nicolas |date=2022-05-28 |title=What aircraft appear in the movie Top Gun: Maverick? |url=https://www.nlarenas.com/2022/05/aeronaves-salen-pelicula-top-gun-maverick/ |access-date=2022-06-28 |website=Nicolas Larenas |language=en}}</ref>

==Mil Mi-26==
In the 2013 [[Bruce Willis]] [[action film]] ''[[A Good Day to Die Hard]]'', a [[Mil Mi-26]]T, leased from the [[Belarus]] Ministry for Emergency Situations and painted in washable military camouflage, was used in various scenes.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Gunner |first=Jerry |title=Film Star Halo |journal=Air Forces Monthly |publisher=Key Publishing |location=Stamford, Lincs., UK |date=October 2012 |number=295 |pages=50–51}}</ref>

==Miles Falcon==
For the 1991 Australian mini-series ''[[The Great Air Race (miniseries)|The Great Air Race]]'', about the 1934 London to [[Melbourne]] [[MacRobertson Air Race|MacRobertson Trophy Air Race]], also known as ''Half a World Away'',<ref name="OzSmlScn203"/> [[Miles Falcon]], VH-AAT, played Miles M.3 Falcon, G-ACTM, the prototype fitted with extra fuel tanks, race number 31.<ref name="GtAirRace62"/>

==Mitsubishi A5M==
The [[Mitsubishi A5M]] Type 96 fighter, known to the Allies as the "Claude"", features prominently in the 2013 [[Studio Ghibli]] animated feature ''[[The Wind Rises]]'' directed by [[Hayao Miyazaki]]. The film is a semi-fictionalised lyrical portrayal of the famous Japanese aircraft designer [[Jiro Horikoshi]] and depicts him designing the A5M in the 1930s.<ref name="variety1"/>

==Moller M400 Skycar==
The [[Moller M400 Skycar]] appears in the 2010 telemovie ''[[The Jensen Project]]'' with [[LeVar Burton]] and [[Kellie Martin]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Moller International Skycar to be Featured in NBC's The Jensen Project |url=http://www.moller.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=149:the-jensen-project&catid=35:moller-news |website=Moller International |date=13 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306220606/http://www.moller.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=149%3Athe-jensen-project&catid=35%3Amoller-news |archive-date=6 March 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It also appears in [[Clive Cussler]]'s novel ''[[Atlantis Found]]'', where it is flown by [[Dirk Pitt]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/skycar-for-sale-74036522.html |title=Skycar for Sale |date=27 January 2003 |website=PR Newswire |access-date=18 December 2015}}</ref>

==Morane-Saulnier MS.230==
The [[Morane-Saulnier MS.230]] appears as the fictional "new monoplane" in the 1966 World War I epic ''[[The Blue Max]]'' and was the aircraft in which the central character Bruno Stachel ([[George Peppard]]) meets his demise.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://hangar47.com/Morane_230.html |title=Morane 230 |website=Hangar 47 |access-date=27 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012195015/https://hangar47.com/Morane_230.html |archive-date=12 October 2013}}</ref> Peppard purchased the aircraft and took it back to the US where it joined the collection of the San Diego Aerospace Museum.{{sfnp|Ogden|1986|p=136}} The plot, which has Stachel wringing-out a new design until it sheds its wings, is based on the experience with the late-war [[Fokker D.VIII|Fokker E.V]], a parasol design, three of six of which crashed within a week of being delivered to ''[[Jasta 6]]'' in August 1918. Grounded for investigation, the problem was traced to shoddy workmanship at the [[Mecklenburg]] factory where defective wood spars, water damage to glued parts, and pins carelessly splintering the members instead of securing them were discovered. Upon return to service two months later, the design was renamed the [[Fokker D.VIII]] in an effort to avoid the type's reputation as a killer.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Connors |first=John F. |title=Fokker's Flying Razors |journal=Wings |location=Granada Hills, California |date=August 1974 |volume=4 |number=4 |pages=45, 48}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Jane |first=Frederick Thomas |title=Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War I |year=1990 |publisher=Crescent |isbn=0-517-03376-3 |page=148}}</ref>

==N3N Canary==
[[Naval Aircraft Factory N3N|Naval Aircraft Factory N3N Canary]]s were shown in the 1941 Warner Bros. film ''[[Dive Bomber (film)|Dive Bomber]]''.<ref name="aerofilesFilmsD"/>

==Nakajima Ki-27==
[[File:Ki-27 2.jpg|thumb|[[Nakajima Ki-27]]]]
[[Nakajima Ki-27]]s, lifted from Japanese film, appeared in the 1942 [[Republic Pictures|Republic]] film ''[[Flying Tigers (film)|Flying Tigers]]''.<ref name="FlyingTigersFilms">{{cite web |url=http://www.warbirdforum.com/movies.htm |title=Flying Tiger films, past and possible |last=Ford |first=Daniel |website=Warbird Forum |date=November 2009 |access-date=11 May 2010}}</ref>

==Nakajima Ki-43==
A replica of a [[Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa]] appeared in the 2007 Japanese motion picture ''For Those We Love'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chiran-tokkou.jp/english/floor/center/index.html |title=Main exhibit room / Chiran Peace Museum |last=知覧特攻平和会館 |work=chiran-tokkou.jp |access-date=16 March 2017 |archive-date=26 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160226012843/http://www.chiran-tokkou.jp/english/floor/center/index.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> a drama about WW2 Kamikaze pilots.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2007/05/25/films/film-reviews/ore-wa-kimi-no-tame-ni-koso-shini-ni-iku/#.WMn2DTuGPIU |title=Ore wa Kimi no Tame ni Koso Shini ni Iku |work= The Japan Times |date=25 May 2007 |access-date=16 March 2017}}</ref>

==Nieuport 17==
The [[Nieuport 17]] was one of the main aircraft in the 2006 film ''[[Flyboys (film)|Flyboys]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4547873.stm |title=Actors learn to fly for war film |last=Briggs |first=Caroline |date=14 May 2005 |website=[[BBC News]] |access-date=12 January 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092100453.html |title='Flyboy' Rises Above Villainous Past |last=Talcott |first=Christina |date=22 September 2006 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=12 January 2010}}</ref>

==Nieuport 28==
An authentic [[Nieuport 28]] was provided and flown by [[Frank Tallman]], a Hollywood film pilot, for ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode [[The Last Flight (The Twilight Zone)|"The Last Flight"]] in which a World War I Royal Flying Corps pilot is transported in time in a cloud to the 1960s. [[Norton Air Force Base]], California, was the filming site. The episode first aired on 5 February 1960.{{sfnp|Zicree|1982}}

==Noorduyn AT-16==
Canadian-built variants of the [[North American T-6 Texan]] are seen in the 1943 [[RKO]] film ''[[Bombardier (film)|Bombardier]]'', filmed at [[Kirtland Field]], New Mexico.<ref name="aerofilesFilmsB"/>

==Noorduyn Norseman==
The [[Noorduyn Norseman]] appears in scenes in the 1942 Warner Bros. film ''[[Captains of the Clouds]]'', with [[James Cagney]] as a Canadian [[bush pilot]] at the start of World War II.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://projectpi.skydiveworld.com/PI-norseman.htm |title=Noorduyn Norseman |first=Thom |last=Lyons |website=Project PI |year=2004 |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

==North American AT-6 Texan==
The 1941 [[Paramount Pictures]] film ''[[I Wanted Wings]]'' featured flights of more than 50 [[North American T-6 Texan]]s from [[Kelly Field]], Texas.<ref name="CoastCompfilm"/>

An SNJ-5 Texan, a naval variant of the AT-6, appeared in several television productions. It was modified to play the role of a Japanese [[Mitsubishi A6M Zero|Zero]] in the TV series ''[[Baa Baa Black Sheep (TV series)|Baa Baa Black Sheep]]'' (1977) and the mini-series ''[[Pearl (miniseries)|Pearl]]'' (1979) and it played the roles of both a Zero and an [[Douglas SBD Dauntless|SBD Dauntless]] in the 1987 mini-series ''[[War and Remembrance (TV miniseries)|War and Remembrance]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://planesoffame.org/index.php?mact=staircraft,cntnt01,default,0&cntnt01what=stplanes&cntnt01alias=SNJ-5&cntnt01returnid=128 |title=North American SNJ-5 |website=Planes of Fame |access-date=8 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030144719/http://planesoffame.org/index.php?mact=staircraft,cntnt01,default,0&cntnt01what=stplanes&cntnt01alias=SNJ-5&cntnt01returnid=128 |archive-date=30 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> T-6 Texans, one piloted by World War Two Marine Ace [[Archie Donaue]] represented Japanese Zeroes in the 1980 science fiction film [[The Final Countdown (film)]]

North American Harvards, the British Commonwealth name for the AT-6, appear prominently in [[Captains of the Clouds]], starring [[James Cagney]].<ref name="Vintage Wings Canada"/>

==North American BT-9 / BT-16==
[[North American BT-9]] and BT-16 basic trainers were filmed at [[Randolph Field]], Texas, for the 1941 [[Paramount Pictures]] film ''I Wanted Wings'', based on the 1937 novel of the same title by 1st Lt. [[Beirne Lay, Jr.]]<ref name="CoastCompfilm"/>

==North American X-15==
[[File:X-15 in flight.jpg|thumb|right|[[North American X-15]]]]

On 5 November 1959, a small engine fire forced pilot [[Scott Crossfield]] to make an emergency landing on [[Rosamond Dry Lake]], [[Edwards Air Force Base]], California, in a [[North American X-15]]. Not designed to land with fuel on board, the X-15 landed with a heavy load of propellants and broke its back, grounding it for three months. Footage of this accident was later incorporated in ''[[The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)|The Outer Limits]]'' episode "[[The Premonition (The Outer Limits)|The Premonition]]", first aired 9 January 1965.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://area51specialprojects.com/x-15_crashes.html |title=X-15 Crashes |first=Thornton D. |last=Barnes |website=Secret Heroes |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

The rocket craft is also the subject of the 1961 Essex Productions film ''[[X-15 (film)|X-15]]'', a fictionalized account of the program, directed by [[Richard Donner]] in his first outing, and narrated by USAF Brigadier General (Reserve) [[James Stewart]] in an uncredited role.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/x15-movie.html |title=X-15: The Hollywood Version |journal=Air & Space/Smithsonian |date=1 August 2007 |access-date=9 August 2012}}</ref>

In the opening scene of the 2018 film ''[[First Man (film)|First Man]]'', [[Neil Armstrong]], played by [[Ryan Gosling]], is seen piloting a [[North American X-15]] during a test flight.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://theaviationist.com/2018/11/14/everything-you-need-to-know-and-probably-dont-about-the-x-15-flight-shown-in-the-opening-scene-of-first-man/ |title=Everything You Need To Know (And Probably Don't) About The X-15 Flight Shown in the Opening Scene Of "First Man"|last=Cenciotti|first=David|date=14 November 2018 |website=The Aviationist|access-date=2019-03-02}}</ref>

==Northrop A-17==
The [[Northrop A-17]] makes an appearance at [[March Field]] at the conclusion of the 1941 [[Paramount Pictures]] film ''[[I Wanted Wings]]''.<ref name="CoastCompfilm"/>

== Northrop M2-F2 ==
The [[Northrop M2-F2]], a NASA research aircraft, appears in the 1970s TV series ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]'', starring [[Lee Majors]]. In the first episode, protagonist [[Steve Austin (character)|Steve Austin]] crashes the aircraft during a test flight and is severely injured. The footage used was from a real M2-F2 accident that took place on 10 May 1967 in the California desert.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/crash-made-famous-tv |title=A Crash Made Famous on TV|date=11 May 2010 |website=National Air and Space Museum|access-date=2019-03-11}}</ref> The clip of the crash was also used in the opening titles of each episode. The opening titles also used footage of the later [[Northrop HL-10]] aircraft.

==Northrop YB-49==
[[Paramount Pictures]]' 1953 film, ''[[The War of the Worlds (1953 film)|The War of the Worlds]]'' incorporates color footage of a [[Northrop YB-49]] test flight, originally used in one of Paramount's [[Popular Science]] theatrical shorts. In the [[George Pal]] film, the Flying Wing is used to drop an [[atomic bomb]] on the invading [[Martian]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/war-worlds/flying-wing.html |title=Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing |first=Tom |last=Howe |website=cedmagic.com |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

== Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye ==
In the film ''[[The Final Countdown (film)|The Final Countdown]]'' (1980) a [[Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye|Grumman E-2 Hawkeye]] is used by {{USS|Nimitz}} as an airborne command and radar facility to track the Japanese Fleet heading to attack [[Attack on Pearl Harbor|Pearl Harbour]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rellimzone.com/2013/12/movie-review-the-final-countdown-1980/ |title=Movie Review – The Final Countdown (1980) - A journey into the world of REVIEWS, the PARANORMAL, STUPIDITY, and MORE! - The Rellim Zone|access-date=2019-03-13}}</ref>

In the 2022 film [[Top Gun: Maverick]], the E-2 plays an important role in the topical air attack operation, conducting the strike pack (consisting of four [[Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet|F-18]]) and detecting enemy aircraft.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/e-2d-hawkeye-navys-airborne-early-warning-plane-gets-spotlight-in-top-gun-maverick/ |title=E-2D Hawkeye, Navy's Airborne Early Warning Plane, Gets Spotlight in 'Top Gun: Maverick' |last=Seck |first=Hope |date=2022-06-15 |website=sandboxx.us |access-date=2022-09-14}}</ref>

==O-1 Bird Dog==
The 1990 film ''[[Air America (film)|Air America]]'', which loosely recounted the exploits of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] [[Air America (airline)|proprietary airline]] in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and early 1970s, featured [[Cessna O-1 Bird Dog]]s.<ref name="AerofilesFilmsA"/>

==O2C Helldiver==
United States Navy [[Curtiss Falcon|Curtiss O2C-2 Helldiver]]s from [[Floyd Bennett Field]] were used in filming ''[[King Kong (1933)|King Kong]]'' in 1933, but as [[Carl Denham]] observed, "Oh no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast." Writer and director [[Merian C. Cooper]] portrayed the pilot who kills Kong, while director [[Ernest B. Schoedsack]] plays his gunner, in uncredited roles.<ref name="TCM_Kong"/> In the 2005 [[King Kong (2005 film)|remake]] of the film, director [[Peter Jackson]] plays one of the gunners while the pilot is portrayed by [[Rick Baker (makeup artist)|Rick Baker]], who played Kong (in a rubber suit) in the 1976&nbsp;[[King Kong (1976 film)|remake]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Wloszczyna |first=Susan |date=15 December 2005 |title="King Kong" abounds with fun facts for fanboys |newspaper=USA Today |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2005-12-15-kong-fanboy-references_x.htm |access-date=8 February 2013}}</ref>

==P-1 Hawk==
The 1927 [[William Wellman]] film ''[[Wings (1927 film)|Wings]]'' featured [[Curtiss P-1 Hawk]]s among many types depicting World War I aircraft.<ref name="historynet1"/> The P-1s were used to portray German [[Albatros D.V]] fighters.<ref>Carlson, Mark ''Flying on Film: A Century of Aviation in the Movies 1912-2012'' Bearmanor Media, 2012 p. 47.</ref>

==P-35==
A civilianized [[Seversky P-35]], the Seversky S2, which won the 1937 [[Bendix Trophy]] race, appeared as the "Drake Bullet" in the 1938 [[MGM]] film ''[[Test Pilot (film)|Test Pilot]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aerostories.free.fr/severskyP35/page11.html |first=Luc |last=Fournier |title=Seversky P-35's unexpected metamorphosis |website=Aerostories |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

==P-38 Lightning==
[[File:Lockheed P-38 Lightning (USAAC).jpg|thumb|right|[[Lockheed P-38 Lightning]]]]
''[[A Guy Named Joe]]'' (1943) has [[Spencer Tracy]] returning as a guiding spirit looking after young [[Lockheed P-38 Lightning]] pilot [[Van Johnson]].{{sfnp|Hardwick|Schnepf|1989}}

The 1944 short feature ''P-38 Reconnaissance Pilot'', starring [[William Holden]] as Lt. "Packy" Cummings, dramatises the work of photo [[reconnaissance]] pilots in World War II.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0dn4COqsoY |title=Reconnaissance Pilot |website=YouTube |date=February 2010 |access-date=23 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208043403/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0dn4COqsoY |archive-date=8 December 2013}}</ref>

The 1965 film ''[[Von Ryan's Express]]'' begins with main protagonist, USAAF Colonel Joseph Ryan ([[Frank Sinatra]]), crash landing a P-38 Lightning in World War II Italy and being held as a prisoner of war.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cmulrooney.tripod.com/robson.html |title=Von Ryan's Express |website=PIX |first=Christopher |last=Mulrooney |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

P-38s appear in the 1968 novel ''Order of Battle'' by [[Alfred Coppel]], a work that portrays US P-38Fs in the fighter-bomber role over Europe in WW2.<ref>[[Martin Caidin|Caidin, Martin]]. ''Fork-tailed Devil: The P-38''. Ballantine Books, 1990. p. 22.</ref>

In the 1992 action film ''[[Aces: Iron Eagle III]]'', the main character, Brig. Gen. Chappy Sinclair ([[Louis Gossett Jr.]]), pilots a P-38J as part a mission to field old Second World War airshow aircraft against a drug cartel in Peru.<ref>{{cite news |last=Shannon |first=Jeff |url=http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19920613&slug=1496974 |title='Iron Eagle III': They Can't Stay Out of Those Flying Machines |newspaper=The Seattle Times|date=13 June 1992 |access-date=28 January 2014}}</ref> The aircraft, registration N38BP, came from the Planes of Fame museum.<ref name="CoastCompfilm"/>

The [[CAPCOM]] game [[1942 (video game)|1942]] for the arcades and the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] features the P-38 as the default plane of choice.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thegamehoard.com/2022/04/14/50-years-of-video-games-1942-arcade/ |title=50 Years of Video Games: 1942 (Arcade)|date=14 April 2022}}</ref>

==P-40 Warhawk==
[[File:Hells Angels, Flying Tigers 1942.jpg|thumb|right|[[Curtiss P-40 Warhawk]]s]]

In the 1942 [[John Wayne]] film ''[[Flying Tigers (film)|Flying Tigers]]'', real [[Curtiss P-40 Warhawk]]s are featured. ''The New York Times'' critic called the P-40s "the true stars" of the film.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/22/tv/movies-this-week-441961.html |title=Movies this week |last=Van Gelder |first=Lawrence |date=22 September 1996 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 February 2010}}</ref> Republic Studios also built replicas for the film due to material shortages during the war. These can be identified by the fairings hiding the cylinder heads of the automotive V-8 engines installed in them, and the lack of elevators on the horizontal stabilizer.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AcwaAAAAIBAJ&pg=3580,1545824&dq=film+flying-tigers&hl=en |title=Film Makers Learn to Share |last=Church |first=Harlow |date=6 January 1943 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Press |page=21 |access-date=10 February 2010}}</ref>

Future US President [[Ronald Reagan]] appears in the ''[[Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter]]'' (training film, 1942) as a young pilot learning to recognize the difference between a P-40 and a Japanese Zero. In this film Reagan mistakes a friend's P-40 for a Japanese Zero and tries to shoot it down. In the end, Reagan gets a chance to shoot down a real Zero.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ihffilm.com/22039.html |title=Ronald Reagan – Identification of the Japanese Zero (Training Film) |website=International Historic Films |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

A P-40 featured in the 1973 made-for-TV film ''Death Race'' (also known as ''State of Division'') which starred [[Lloyd Bridges]] and [[Doug McClure]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aerovintage.com/ftfilm.htm |title=The Filmwork of Frank Tallman |website=Aero Vintage Books |access-date=8 February 2013}}</ref> The film featured a damaged Allied fighter, unable to take off but still able to taxi, being pursued across North Africa by a German tank.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.learmedia.ca/product_info.php/products_id/1271 |title=Death Race (1973) (TV) – Lloyd Bridges, Roy Thinnes, Eric Braeden, Doug McClure |website=Learmedia.ca |date=11 November 2005 |url-status=dead |access-date=8 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106043436/http://www.learmedia.ca/product_info.php/products_id/1271 |archive-date=6 November 2013}}</ref>

==P-47 Thunderbolt==
[[Steve Earle]]'s 1988 song "Johnny Come Lately" from the album ''[[Copperhead Road]]'' is about an American [[Republic P-47 Thunderbolt|P-47]] pilot in World War II; it contains a verse "My P-47 is a pretty good ship. She took a round comin' cross the channel last trip."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metrolyrics.com/johnny-come-lately-lyrics-steve-earle.html |title=Steve Earle – Johnny Come Lately Lyrics |website=MetroLyrics|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311071147/http://www.metrolyrics.com/johnny-come-lately-lyrics-steve-earle.html|archive-date=2016-03-11|url-status=dead|access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

Modified [[T-6 Texan]]s depicted P-47s in the 1977 film ''[[A Bridge Too Far (film)|A Bridge Too Far]]''.<ref name="Hurst_p33-34"/>

==P-51 Mustang==
[[P-51 Mustang]]s featured in the 1948 [[Warner Bros.]] film ''[[Fighter Squadron]]'' which was directed by [[Raoul Walsh]] and starred [[Edmond O'Brien]] & [[Robert Stack]]. In this film, P-51Ds belonging to the California Air National Guard played the role of German Bf-109 fighters to which the P-51 bore some resemblance from certain angles. For the production, P-51s were coated with acrylic Luftwaffe paint-schemes. The aerial sequences were filmed near [[Van Nuys]] in Los Angeles, California.<ref>Carlson, Mark. ''Flying on Film: A Century of Aviation in the Movies, 1912-2012''. Bearmanor Media, 2012. pp. 134-136.</ref>

A P-51 Mustang piloted by [[2011 Reno Air Races crash|Jimmy Leeward]] features as an antagonist in the 1980 [[aerobatic]]s movie ''[[Cloud Dancer]]''.<ref name="AéroMovies"/><ref name=CloudDancer/>

The [[Steven Spielberg]] film ''[[Empire of the Sun (film)|Empire of the Sun]]'' (1987), based on the [[J. G. Ballard]] novel [[Empire of the Sun (novel)|of the same name]], featured models and restored Mustangs in an attack on a Japanese airstrip next to the internment camp where the story's protagonist is imprisoned. This was the most complex and elaborately staged sequence of the film, requiring over 10 days of filming and 60 hours of aerial footage of Mustangs. Film historians and reviewers regard the scene as a significant cinematic achievement: "Spielberg's most emotionally reverberant moment, and one of the rare movie scenes that can truly be called epiphanies."<ref>Denby, David. [https://books.google.com/books?id=n-MCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA87 "Empire Builders: Empire of the Sun is Spielberg's most psychologically complex work"]. ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'', 14 December 1987. Retrieved: 22 November 2014.</ref>

In the 1998 film ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'', a flight of P-51s save embattled American troops from German ground forces.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://worldwarwings.com/mustang-to-the-rescue-capt-millers-last-stand-in-saving-private-ryan/ |title=It Was THESE Warbirds That Blew Up The Tank In Saving Private Ryan|website=World War Wings}}</ref>

Red-Tailed P-51s play a central role in the 2012 film ''[[Red Tails]]'' when the [[332nd Fighter Group]] is assigned to bomber escort duties, finally replacing their aging P-40s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.awn.com/vfxworld/flying-red-tails |title=Flying with 'Red Tails'|website=Animation World Network}}</ref>

A P-51 Mustang, privately owned by [[Tom Cruise]], is repaired and flown by his character [[Pete Mitchell (Top Gun)|Pete Mitchell]], in the final scene of ''[[Top Gun: Maverick]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/top-gun-maverick-plane-p51-mustang-tom-cruise/|title=Tom Cruise Flew His Own P-51 Mustang In Top Gun: Maverick|first=Henry|last=Austin|date=10 June 2022|website=ScreenRant}}</ref>

==Panavia Tornado==
The Transformers character Darkwing disguises itself as a [[Panavia Tornado]].{{sfnp|Bellomo|2007|p=199}}

The [[Royal Air Force]]'s ground attack aircraft, the Panavia Tornado, featured extensively in the television pilot ''Strike Force'', produced in the 1990s for ITV in the UK. ''Strike Force'' did not enter series production.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/529442?view=synopsis |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018021709/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/529442?view=synopsis |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 October 2012 |title=Strike Force (1995 television pilot) |website=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=22 February 2010}}</ref>

RAF Tornadoes featured in the 1998 BBC science fiction TV mini-series ''[[Invasion: Earth (TV series)|Invasion Earth]]'' written & co-produced by [[Jed Mercurio]]. In the series, Tornado jets are scrambled to intercept a UFO.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/out-of-this-world-1160635.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902020328/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/out-of-this-world-1160635.html |archive-date=2019-09-02 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |title=Out of this world|date=9 May 1998|website=The Independent}}</ref>

The Tornado was the subject of the 1985 video game ''[[Tornado Low Level]]'', in which the titular aircraft was used to destroy enemy target markers. The markers could only be destroyed when the Tornado's wings were fully swept back, and moving at full speed.<ref name="AAction">{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Amstrad Action]] |title=Action Test|last=Wade|first=Bob|issue=5|pages=48–49|date=February 1986|url=https://archive.org/details/amstrad-action-005/page/n47}}</ref>

==PBY Catalina==
A [[PBY Catalina]] features in the 1947 film ''[[High Barbaree (film)|High Barbaree]]'' (also released under the title ''Enchanted Island'') which was directed by [[Jack Conway (filmmaker)|Jack Conway]], starred [[Van Johnson]] and was based on the 1945 novel of the same name by [[Charles Nordhoff]] & [[James Norman Hall]]. The film portrays a PBY crew during WW2 in the Pacific. During a depth-charge attack on a Japanese submarine, the PBY is damaged and crash-lands in enemy waters, leaving only two survivors, pilot Lt. Brooke (Johnson) and navigator Lt. Moore ([[Cameron Mitchell (actor)|Cameron Mitchell]]).<ref>Carlson, Mark. ''Flying on Film: A Century of Aviation in the Movies, 1912-2012''. Bearmanor Media, 2012. pp. 228-229.</ref>

A former [[Royal Danish Air Force]] PBY-6A Catalina appeared in the 1976 film ''[[Midway (1976 film)|Midway]]''.<ref name="Legg">{{cite book |last=Legg |first=David |title=Consolidated PBY Catalina The Peacetime Record |year=2002 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |isbn=978-1-55750-245-2 |page=257}}</ref>

A PBY-5A Catalina appeared in the opening sequence of the 1989 [[Steven Spielberg]] film ''[[Always (1989 film)|Always]]'' as a [[firebomber]] picking up a water load and bearing down on two startled fishermen.<ref name="Legg"/>

In the 2002 submarine film ''[[Below (film)|Below]]'', the {{USS|Tiger Shark}} is directed to pick up three survivors of a torpedoed hospital ship by a Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina, marked as AH545, WQ-Z of [[No. 209 Squadron RAF|No. 209 Squadron]]. The PBY-5A was marked as the Catalina that had a decisive role in the sinking of the {{Ship|German battleship|Bismarck||2|up=yes}}.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Crouchman |first=Alan F. |title='Cat' Gets Movie Role |journal=Flypast |location=Stamford, Lincs. |date=September 2001 |number=242 |page=7}}</ref>

==PB4Y Privateer==
United States Navy [[PB4Y Privateer|PB4Y-2M Privateer]]s of [[VP-23]], based at [[Naval Air Station Miami]], Florida, were filmed at the close of the 1948 hurricane season and the footage used in the 1949 [[20th Century-Fox]] film ''[[Slattery's Hurricane]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vpnavy.com/adobe/vp_23.pdf |title=Third VP-23 |work=Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons – Volume 2 |page=143 |publisher=U.S. Navy |access-date=20 September 2009}}</ref>

==Percival Proctor==
[[File:Percival Proctor V Manchester 1953.jpg|thumb|right|[[Percival Proctor]]]]

The most prominent of the real aircraft in [[Nevil Shute]]'s 1951 novel ''[[Round the Bend (novel)|Round the Bend]]'' is a war-surplus [[Percival Proctor]], which is used by the protagonist Constantine Shak Lin (also known as Connie Shaklin) to tour Asia to spread his teachings. At the end of the book the Proctor is the basis of a shrine to Shaklin and his new creed, laid up in a hangar in a state of uncompleted maintenance for pilgrims to view.<ref name="Round_the_Bend">{{cite book |last=Shute |first=Nevil |author-link=Nevil Shute |title=Round the Bend |year=1968 |publisher=Pan |location=London |isbn=0-330-02018-8}}</ref>

In 1968, three Proctors were remodelled with [[Gull wing|inverted gull wings]] and other cosmetic alterations to represent [[Junkers Ju 87]]s in the film ''Battle of Britain'' but, in the event, radio-controlled models were used instead.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jackson |first=Aubrey Joseph |title=British Civil Aircraft since 1919 |volume=1 |location=London |publisher=Putnam & Company Ltd |year=1973 |isbn=978-0-370-10006-7}}</ref>

==Pfalz D.III==
A pair of flying replica [[Pfalz D.III]]s were constructed to appear in the 1966 epic First World War film ''[[The Blue Max]]'', based on the novel of the same name by [[Jack D. Hunter]]. The aircraft subsequently appeared in ''[[Darling Lili]]'' (1970) and ''[[Von Richthofen and Brown|Von Richthofen & Brown]]'' (1971).<ref name="thevintageaviator"/>

==Pfalz D.XII==
A [[Pfalz D.XII]] which is now in the [[National Air and Space Museum]], Washington, D.C., was flown in ''[[The Dawn Patrol (1930 film)|The Dawn Patrol]]'' (1930), ''[[Hell's Angels (film)|Hell's Angels]]'' (1930), and ''[[Men with Wings]]'' (1938).<ref name="rogerdarlington1">{{cite web|url=http://www.rogerdarlington.co.uk/afilms.html |title=Aviation Films|last=Darlington|first=Roger|year=2015|website=rogerdarlington.co.uk|access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref> Footage of the Pfalz from ''The Dawn Patrol'' also featured in the [[The Dawn Patrol (1938 film)|1938 remake]] with [[Errol Flynn]].<ref>Carlson, Mark. ''Flying on Film: A Century of Aviation in the Movies 1912-2012'' Bearmanor Media, 2012 p. 59.</ref>

==Pilatus Porter/Fairchild AU-23==
The STOL-capable [[Pilatus PC-6 Porter]] was depicted in the 1990 film ''[[Air America (film)|Air America]]'', loosely recounting the exploits of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] proprietary airline in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and early 1970s.<ref name="AerofilesFilmsA"/> The PC-6s in this film were actually [[Fairchild AU-23 Peacemaker|Fairchild AU-23A Peacemakers]], the US-built version of the aircraft. Five examples were used in the production, four of them belonging to the Royal Thai Air-Force and a fifth which was a hybrid re-constructed from a number of derelict Porters. The latter was used for the filming of a landing on a hill-top airstrip because the Thai Air-Force refused to risk one of their own Porters in the filming of that scene.<ref>Beck, Simon D. ''The Aircraft-Spotter's Film & Television Companion''. McFarland Publishers, 2016. p11-12.</ref>

A Pilatus PC-6 Porter was used for the first jump and training scenes in the 1994 film ''[[Drop Zone (film)|Drop Zone]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pc-6.com/history/2001.htm |title=Pilatus Porter History S/N 2001|access-date=14 June 2020}}</ref>

==Piper Cherokee==
The character [[Pussy Galore]] in the 1964 [[James Bond]] film ''[[Goldfinger (film)|Goldfinger]]'' is the leader of "Pussy Galore's Flying Circus", a group of women who fly [[Piper Cherokee]]s, trained acrobats turned cat burglars, in the [[Goldfinger (novel)|novel of the same name]] by [[Ian Fleming]]. In the film the arch-villain uses the Cherokees in his plan to deprive the US government of the gold in [[United States Bullion Depository|Fort Knox]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/movies/gf |title=Goldfinger (1964) |website=MI6: The Home of James Bond 007 |access-date=6 February 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/live-and-let-fly-442427/ |title=Live and Let Fly: Real pilots rate the performance of the airplanes in James Bond flicks |last=Lande |first=David |date=1 September 2008 |journal=Air & Space/Smithsonian |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

==Piper PA-28 Warrior==
[[Mark Haddon]]'s 2019 novel ''[[The Porpoise]]'' starts with the flight en route to [[Popham Airfield]] in Hampshire and subsequent crash of a [[Piper PA-28 Warrior]] caused when the pilot crashes into a silo between [[Gapennes]] and [[Yvrench]] in [[Somme (department)|Somme department]] resulting in four deaths including a pregnant woman, the only survivor being an unborn baby saved by a passing doctor. The baby becomes the protagonist of the novel.<ref>{{cite web |author=Alex Clark |date=30 October 2019 |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/the-porpoise-mark-haddon-review-goldsmiths-prize |title=Mark Haddon's The Porpoise: effortlessly inventive and absorbing |website=The New Statesman |access-date=2021-03-27}}</ref>

==Pitts Special==
[[Pitts Special]] S-1S and S-2A airplanes feature prominently in the 1980 film ''[[Cloud Dancer]]'', which flying scenes were filmed with cameras adapted to resist up to 12 g, mounted on the planes. The story follows a [[competition aerobatics]] champion through his show season, starring [[David Carradine]]. The role of [[Curtis Pitts]] was played by [[Woodrow Chambliss]] in a short scene; the movie had the participation both in performance as in advice of pilots [[Tom Poberezny]], [[Charlie Hillard]], [[Leo Loudenslager]], and [[2011 Reno Air Races crash|Jimmy Leeward]]. The movie is dedicated to pilot Walt Tubb, who died a few months after the filming, coincidentally while doing the same maneuver that in the movie causes the death of one of the characters.<ref name="AéroMovies">{{cite web |title=Cloud Dancer |author=Christian Santoir |url=http://www.aeromovies.fr/articles.php?lng=en&pg=365 |publisher=Aéro Movies |access-date=May 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222014632/http://www.aeromovies.fr/articles.php?lng=en&pg=365 |archive-date=December 22, 2018 |url-status=usurped |language=fr}}</ref><ref name=CloudDancer>{{cite web |title=Cloud Dancer |author=Jack Cox |date=28 July 1978 |url=http://www.oshkosh365.org/saarchive/eaa_articles/1978_07_10.pdf |publisher=Sport Aviation |access-date=May 27, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120325162249/http://www.oshkosh365.org/saarchive/eaa_articles/1978_07_10.pdf |archive-date=March 25, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==RAH-66 Comanche==
The cancelled [[Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche]] appeared in director [[Ang Lee]]'s ''[[Hulk (film)|Hulk]]'' film in 2003.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/history.html |title=Notes on History of Helicopters, etc... |website=Rotary Action |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923184901/http://www.rotaryaction.com/history.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref>

The 1993 shooter game ''[[Jungle Strike]]'' has the main character flying the RAH-66 Comanche to complete various missions.<ref name="segaforce">Adrian Pitt & Mat Yeo, "Reviewed! Jungle Strike" ''[[Sega Force]]'' July 93 (issue 19), pp. 58–59.</ref>

== Republic RC-3 Seabee ==
The [[Republic RC-3 Seabee]] is an amphibious aircraft which [[James Bond]] uses in the 1974 film ''[[The Man with the Golden Gun (film)|The Man With the Golden Gun]]'', to get to the island lair of villain [[Francisco Scaramanga]]. Bond lands the plane at the island, but it is later destroyed by Scaramanga's solar-powered laser gun.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bmt216a.dk/Vehicles/BMT216Avehicle.php?vpage=11 |title=BMT 216A: Republic RC-3 Sea Bee|last=Soegaard|first=Preben |website=www.bmt216a.dk |access-date=2019-03-02}}</ref>

== RF-8 Crusader ==
The RF-8 is a reconnaissance version of the [[Vought F-8 Crusader]] [[Carrier-based aircraft|carrier-based]] [[Air superiority fighter|air superiority]] aircraft. In the 1980 film ''[[The Final Countdown (film)|The Final Countdown]]'' an RF-8 is used by {{USS|Nimitz}} to overfly the [[Attack on Pearl Harbor|Pearl Harbor]] naval base.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rellimzone.com/2013/12/movie-review-the-final-countdown-1980/ |title=Movie Review – The Final Countdown (1980) - A journey into the world of Reviews, the Paranormal, Stupidity, and More! - The Rellim Zone|access-date=2019-03-16}}</ref> The photos taken during that mission of the US Navy Fleet prior to the 1941 Japanese attack, convince ''Nimitz''{{'s}} commanders that somehow they have gone back in time from the 1980s to the 1940s.

==Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2==
[[File:Royal aircraft factory BE2c at the Imperial War Museum.jpg|thumb|right|[[Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2]]]]

A replica [[Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2]]c was used in the production of the BBC Great War drama series ''[[Wings (BBC TV series)|Wings]]'' which aired in 1977–1978.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lightaircraftassociation.co.uk/2012/News/biggles.html |title=BBC to show Biggles Biplane restoration story |website=Light Aircraft Association |access-date=10 September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ukga.com/airfield/northampton-sywell/24931 |title=BBC to show Biggles Biplane restoration story |website=UK General Aviation |date=21 January 2012 |access-date=10 September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.biggles-biplane.com/ |title=Biggles Biplane Restoration |website=Biggles Biplane.com |access-date=10 September 2012}}</ref> The replica was originally commissioned in 1969 by Universal Studios for a proposed big-budget film ''Biggles Sweeps the Skies'' but the project was cancelled after the aircraft was built. The replica was constructed by engineer and pilot Charles Boddington who was later killed during the making of the 1971 film ''[[Von Richthofen and Brown|Von Richthofen & Brown]]''. His son Matthew recently rebuilt the aircraft (after it was badly damaged in an accidental crash in the US) and it flew again at Sywell aerodrome, UK, in 2011.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.sywellaerodrome.co.uk/sywell-aerodrome-magazine-2011-56-biggles-biplane.php |title=Biggles Biplane flies again! |journal=The Journal of the Friends of Sywell Aerodrome |number=18 |date=Summer 2011 |first=Steve |last=Slater |access-date=10 September 2012 |archive-date=12 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012195100/http://www.sywellaerodrome.co.uk/sywell-aerodrome-magazine-2011-56-biggles-biplane.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5==
The 1927 [[William Wellman]] film ''Wings'' featured a [[Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5]]a among many types depicting World War I aircraft.<ref name="historynet1"/>

==Ryan NYP==
The 1938 [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]] film ''[[Men with Wings]]'', starring [[Ray Milland]], featured a reproduction of the ''[[Spirit of St. Louis]]'' fashioned from a [[Ryan Brougham|Ryan B-1 Brougham]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Cassagneres |first=Ev |title=The Untold Story of the Spirit of St. Louis: From the Drawing Board to the Smithsonian |location=New Brighton, Minnesota |publisher=Flying Book International |year=2002 |isbn=0-911139-32-X |page=140}}</ref>

A recreation of the [[Ryan NYP]] was used for the 1957 Warner Bros. film ''[[The Spirit of St. Louis (film)|The Spirit of St. Louis]]'', starring [[Jimmy Stewart]] as [[Charles Lindbergh]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Simpson |first=Rod |title=Preserving the Spirit |journal=Air-Britain Aviation World |volume=55 |number=4 |year=2003 |issn=0950-7434 |page=66}}</ref>

==Saab JAS 39 Gripen==
In the 2017 film ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight]]'' the Decepticon Nitro Zeus transforms into a [[Saab JAS 39 Gripen]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gripenblogs.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=1746 |title=Gripen Starring in Transformers: The Last Knight |website=Gripenblogs.com |access-date=3 December 2017}}</ref>

In the 2019 anime series ''[[Girly Air Force]]'', Gripen is one of the main fighter aircraft featured in the series along with Kei Narutani, the main protagonist of the series.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-08-09/girly-air-force-anime-announces-cast-winter-2019-premiere/.135281 |title=Girly Air Force Anime Announces Cast, Winter 2019 Premiere |website=Anime News Network |access-date=1 February 2019}}</ref>

==SBD Dauntless==
A [[Douglas SBD Dauntless]] was used in the production of the 1976 motion picture ''[[Midway (1976 film)|Midway]]''. An SBD-5, which had formerly served in the RNZAF and which was (in 1976) non-airworthy and wingless, was used in the filming of the cockpit close-ups for actors such as [[Charlton Heston]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adf-serials.com/nz-serials/nzdauntless.htm |title=New Zealand Serials – Douglas SBD-3, -4, -5 Dauntless |website=ADF-serials.com |date=6 March 2001 |access-date=8 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.warbirddepot.com/aircraft_attack_sbd5-pof-2.asp |title=Planes of Fame's Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless |website=Warbird Depot |date=7 February 1987 |access-date=8 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213033631/http://www.warbirddepot.com/aircraft_attack_sbd5-pof-2.asp |archive-date=13 December 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Later in 1987, the same aircraft (BuNo 28536), now in airworthy condition, was used in the production of the epic 1988–1989 TV mini-series ''[[War and Remembrance (miniseries)|War & Remembrance]]''. The aircraft appeared in the sequence depicting the Battle of Midway and during filming, was flown off the {{USS|Lexington|CV-16|6}} the first time an SBD had taken off from a carrier in 42 years.<ref>{{cite book |last=Skarrup |first=Harold A. |title=California Warbird Survivors 2002 |location=San Jose, California |publisher=Writers Club Press |year=2002 |page=262 |isbn=9780595236442}}</ref>

Douglas SBDs are a major feature in the 2019 film ''[[Midway (2019 film)|Midway]]'' directed by [[Roland Emmerich]]. The aircraft were recreated digitally and at least one full-scale static replica was built.<ref name="auto5">{{Cite web|url=http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/midway/ |title=How Accurate is Midway? Movie vs True Story of the Battle of Midway|website=HistoryvsHollywood.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/emmidwayem-versus-emmidwayem-versus-emmidwayem-how-latest-movie-about-battle-different-and-how-its-still-same-180973493/ |title=Midway vs.Midway vs.The Battle of Midway : How the New Movie Stacks Up to Past Film Versions|first=Chris|last=Klimek|website=[[Air & Space]]}}</ref>

==SB2C Helldiver / A-25 Shrike==
The loss of a US Navy [[Curtiss SB2C Helldiver|Curtiss SB2C-1 Helldiver]], BuNo 00154, of [[VB-5]], during launch near [[Trinidad]] on 28 May 1943<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/USN/LLMay43.htm |title=USN Overseas Aircraft Loss List May 1943 |website=Aviation Archaeology |access-date=9 February 2014}}</ref> during the shakedown cruise of the {{USS|Yorktown|CV-10|6}} was incorporated by [[20th Century Fox]] into the 1944 film ''[[Wing and a Prayer|Wing and a Prayer: The Story of Carrier X]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historynet.com/curtiss-sb2c-helldiver-the-last-dive-bomber.htm |title=Curtiss SB2C Helldiver: The Last Dive Bomber |date=12 June 2006 |website=Historynet.com |access-date=21 May 2012}}</ref>

Two USAAF [[Curtiss SB2C Helldiver|Curtiss RA-25A Shrike]]s collided during a [[flypast]] for an air show near [[Spokane, Washington]], on 23 July 1944, the accident filmed by a [[Paramount Pictures]] newsreel crew. This footage was used in the 1956 film ''[[Earth vs. the Flying Saucers]]'', apparently being shot down by a saucer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.check-six.com/lib/Movie_Crash.htm |title=Movie Crash – Earth vs. the Flying Saucers |website=Check Six |year=2015 |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

==SB2U Vindicator==
[[Vought SB2U Vindicator]]s were featured in the 1941 Warner Bros. film ''Dive Bomber''.<ref name="aerofilesFilmsD"/>

==Short Sunderland==
The [[Short Sunderland]] [[flying boat]] [[patrol bomber]] takes a key part in [[Ivan Southall]]'s autobiographical 1974 novel ''[[Fly West]]'', where the writer tells his life as a [[RAF Coastal Command]] Sunderland pilot during [[World War II]]. Many details about the aircraft looks, performance and procedures are given throughout the book, and as almost the entirety of the book is set inside Sunderlands, the warplane practically becomes a character. Other aircraft, both from [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] and [[Nazi Germany|German]] origin, are also featured and mentioned.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Fly West |title-link=Fly West|last=Southall|first=Ivan|publisher=Angus and Robertson|year=1974|isbn=0207130027|location=London|author-link=Ivan Southall}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110816752 |title=1976 children's book awards announced|date=10 July 1976|work=[[The Canberra Times]] |access-date=16 February 2019|page=3|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

A Short Sunderland was the setting for much of the 1980 novel ''The Flying Porcupine'' by Richard Haligon. The novel takes its title from a nickname reputedly given to the Sunderland by German pilots thanks to its defensive armament of as many as 16 machine guns.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Flying Porcupine |first=Richard |last=Haligon |location=London, UK |publisher=Futura Publications |year=1980 |isbn=978-0-70881-760-5}}</ref>

==Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King==
CIA officer [[Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy)|Jack Ryan]] (played by [[Alec Baldwin]]) is flown from an aircraft carrier to the submarine {{USS|Dallas|SSN-700|6}} in a [[Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King|Sikorsky SH-3H Sea King]] in the 1990 film ''[[Hunt for Red October (film)|Hunt for Red October]]'', based on the [[Tom Clancy]]'s [[The Hunt for Red October|novel of the same title]].<ref name="RotaryActionH" />

At the end of the successful rescue mission for ''[[Apollo 13 (film)|Apollo 13]]'', two SH-3 Sea Kings, historically painted as Helos 66 and 406, retrieve the astronauts from their spacecraft after splashdown in the 1995 [[Ron Howard]] film.<ref name="RotaryActionA"/>

==Sikorsky H-5 / R-5 / HO2S / HO3S / S-51==
[[File:Sikorsky YH-5A USAF.jpg|thumb|right|[[Sikorsky H-5]] ]]

The 1954 film ''[[The Bridges at Toko-Ri]]'', based on the 1953 [[James A. Michener]] novella of the same title, opens and closes with scenes of a US Navy [[Sikorsky H-5|Sikorsky HO3S-1]] of utility helicopter squadron HU-1 operating from an {{sclass|Essex|aircraft carrier}} in pilot rescue and recovery during the [[Korean War]].<ref name="CoastCompfilm"/>

In the 1954 science fiction film ''[[Them!]]'', a Sikorsky S-51 is used to spot giant ants in the [[New Mexico]] desert.<ref name="RotaryActionT"/>

A [[Westland Widgeon (helicopter)|Westland Widgeon]], a UK-built version of the [[Sikorsky S-51]], appears in the 1971 British film ''[[When Eight Bells Toll (film)|When Eight Bells Toll]]'', starring [[Anthony Hopkins]], directed by [[Étienne Périer (director)|Étienne Périer]] and based on the [[Alistair MacLean]] novel of the [[When Eight Bells Toll|same name]]. Aerial scenes were filmed over the Scottish islands of Staffa and Mull.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scotlandthemovie.com/movies/fbells.html |title=When Eight Bells Toll |website=Scotland the Movie: Location Guide |year=2015 |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

==Sikorsky HO5S / S-52==
A [[Sikorsky HO5S-1]] is featured in the 2022 Korean War drama film ''[[Devotion (2022 film)|Devotion]]''. When the film was made, the helicopter was one of the few flyable examples remaining in the world.<ref name=EAA11-22/><ref name=blacklabel/>

==Sikorsky H-19 / Westland Whirlwind==
The 1955 Warner Bros. film ''[[The McConnell Story]]'', about Capt. [[Joseph C. McConnell, Jr.]], the top American ace of the [[Korean War]], includes footage of a [[Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw]] rescuing a downed [[Boeing B-29 Superfortress|B-29]] crew in that conflict, while under heavy fire. A Chickasaw was furnished by the [[48th Rescue Squadron|48th Air Rescue Squadron]], [[Eglin AFB]], Florida, for seven days of filming at [[Alexandria AFB]], Louisiana, in February 1955.<ref>{{cite news |title=Eglin Group Aiding in Film Story |newspaper=Playground News |location=Fort Walton Beach, Florida |date=3 March 1955 |volume=9 |number=57 |page=3}}</ref>

The character of "Harold the Helicopter" from the British children's book series, [[The Railway Series]] and its TV program adaptation, ''[[Thomas & Friends]]'' is based on the [[Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw|Sikorsky S-55]], built in the UK as the [[Westland Whirlwind (helicopter)|Westland Whirlwind]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pegnsean.net/~railwayseries/harold.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041115014643/http://www.pegnsean.net/~railwayseries/harold.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 November 2004 |title=Harold the Helicopter |last=Clutterbuck |first=Martin |website=The Real Lives of Thomas the Tank Engine |access-date=7 June 2010}}</ref>

The Sikorsky S-55 appeared in [[Irwin Allen]]'s 1960 film, ''[[The Lost World (1960 film)|The Lost World]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/l.html |title=Films – L |website=Rotary Action |access-date=10 February 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923185056/http://www.rotaryaction.com/l.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref>

The book, ''[[The Corps Series#List of books|Retreat Hell]]'', by [[W. E. B. Griffin]], takes place in [[Korea]] during the [[Korean War]]. It centers on the use of a Sikorsky H-19A helicopter during the fall 1950. Much of the action is driven forward by the abilities of the helicopter.<ref>{{cite web |title=Retreat, Hell!: A Corps Novel |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-399-15081-4 |website=www.publishersweekly.com |date=January 2004 |publisher=Publishers Weekly |access-date=8 October 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

==Sikorsky S-58==
A [[Sikorsky S-58]]T appears as the "Screaming Mimi" in the 1980s television series ''[[Riptide (American TV series)|Riptide]]''. This S-58 is still in service as a heavy lift helicopter.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://summithelicopter.com/mamamimi.htm |title=Welcome to Summit Helicopter |first=Summit Helicopter, Pacoima |last=California |work=summithelicopter.com |access-date=16 March 2017}}</ref>

==Sikorsky H-53 series==
A [[Sikorsky MH-53#HH-53B|HH-53B Sea Stallion]] appears in the 1974 film ''[[Airport 1975]]'', where a pilot is lowered on a tether from the helicopter to a damaged [[Boeing 747]] in flight.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aeromovies.fr/articles.php?pg=258 |title=747 En péril|first=Christian |last=Santoir |language=fr |website=Aeromovies.fr |access-date=21 August 2018}}</ref>

The HH-53C variant was used in the combined combat search and rescue and VIP delivery sequences in the 1982 [[Malpaso Productions]] spy and [[action film]] ''[[Firefox (film)|Firefox]]'',<ref name="RotaryActionF">{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/f.html |title=Films – F |website=Rotary Action |access-date=9 March 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923183844/http://www.rotaryaction.com/f.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref> produced, directed by, and starring [[Clint Eastwood]], based on the 1977 [[Firefox (novel)|novel of the same name]] by [[Craig Thomas (author)|Craig Thomas]].

The [[Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion]] appears in the 2002 film ''[[The Sum of All Fears (film)|The Sum of All Fears]]'', based on the [[Tom Clancy]] [[The Sum of All Fears|novel of the same title]].<ref name="Seelye"/>

A CH-53E Super Stallion is featured in the 1997 film ''[[The Jackal (1997 film)|The Jackal]]'', where it flies over Washington, D.C., and hovers between buildings during a fast rope sequence.<ref name="RotaryActionJ">{{cite web|url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/j.html |title=Films – J |website=Rotary Action |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140923190042/http://www.rotaryaction.com/j.html |archive-date=23 September 2014 |access-date=20 May 2014}}</ref>

The [[Sikorsky MH-53J]] is featured in the [[Transformers (film)|2007 ''Transformers'' film]] as the alternate mode of [[Blackout (Transformers)|Blackout]]. Production designer Jeff Mann stated "the Pave Low looks butch&nbsp;... the size made it the logical choice."<ref>{{cite web |title=The Making of the Transformers Movie – Production Design: The Robots, The Vehicles, The Sets |first=Jay |last=Cochran |website=Entertainment News International |date=15 June 2007 |url=http://enewsi.com/news.php?catid=190&itemid=11213 |access-date=13 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070917001231/http://enewsi.com/news.php?catid=190&itemid=11213 |archive-date=17 September 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Toys for Blackout were MH-53 replicas, which were reused for the characters of [[Evac (Transformers)|Evac]], [[Spinister]] and [[Whirl (Transformers)#Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen|Whirl]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/83606.pdf |title=Evac |website=[[Hasbro]] |year=2007 |access-date=9 December 2009}}</ref>

The heavier CH-53E Super Stallion is the alternate form for the [[Decepticon]] [[Grindor]] in the 2009 film ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/wheelsonfilm/5711162/Wheels-On-Film-Transformers-Revenge-Of-The-Fallen.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/wheelsonfilm/5711162/Wheels-On-Film-Transformers-Revenge-Of-The-Fallen.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Wheels on Film: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen |first1=Nick |last1=Cowen |first2=Hari |last2=Patience |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=6 July 2009 |location=London |access-date=11 June 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

The [[Sikorsky MH-53]] appears in the 2009 video game ''[[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2]]'', referred to simply as the "Pave Low".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://xbox360.gamespy.com/xbox-360/call-of-duty-6/1040967p1.html |title=Modern Warfare 2's Killstreaks to Include a Nuke?|date=2 November 2009 |access-date=12 April 2019|work=[[GameSpy]]}}</ref>

==Sikorsky CH-54 Tarhe/Sikorsky S-64==
In the 1996 film ''[[Independence Day (1996 film)|Independence Day]]'' a [[Sikorsky S-64]] Skycrane is fitted with an array of flashing lights to communicate with an alien spaceship.<ref name="RotaryActionI">{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/i.html |title=Films – I |website=Rotary Action |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140923185613/http://www.rotaryaction.com/i.html |archive-date= 23 September 2014}}</ref>

A Skycrane also appears in the 2001 film ''[[Swordfish (film)|Swordfish]]'', near the climactic ending in which it has a bus full of hostages slung loaded underneath, and is flying through downtown Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/swordfish.html |title=Swordfish (2001) |website=Rotary Action |access-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141019114325/http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/swordfish.html |archive-date =19 October 2014}}</ref>

==Sikorsky H-60 series==
In the 1994 film ''[[Clear and Present Danger (film)|Clear and Present Danger]]'', a pair of [[Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk|MH-60K Black Hawk]]s are used to insert a special ops team into a Colombian jungle.<ref name="RotaryActionC"/>

Black Hawks were also featured in the 1997 film ''[[Air Force One (film)|Air Force One]]'', having been rented from the US military.<ref name="Times-AFO"/>

The [[Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk]] was the title aircraft in the 2001 film ''[[Black Hawk Down (film)|Black Hawk Down]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_9af0c1a4-ceff-554b-b9be-0e77e1cc0ebe.html |title=Survivor credits instinct |last=Cappiello |first=Vince |date=4 June 2003 |newspaper=[[Casper Star-Tribune]] |location=Casper, Wyoming |access-date=11 January 2010}}</ref> For this film too the film makers rented the aircraft, paying the US Department of Defense about $3 million to ship eight helicopters and about 100 crew members to the film location in Morocco.<ref name="Seelye"/>

In the 2003 film ''[[Tears of the Sun]]'' three [[Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk|SH-60 Seahawk]] helicopters bring evacuated US embassy staff and their SEAL team rescuers from Nigeria to the aircraft carrier {{USS|Harry S. Truman}}. Two SH-60 Seahawk helicopters are used to retrieve a SEAL team and refugees in Nigeria.<ref name="navy.mil"/>

==Sikorsky S-29-A==
[[Igor Sikorsky]]'s [[Sikorsky S-29-A]], previously owned by [[Roscoe Turner]], doubled for a [[Gotha G.V|Gotha bomber]] in [[Howard Hughes]]' 1930 aerial epic ''[[Hell's Angels (film)|Hell's Angels]]''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Hollywood Pilot: The Biography of Paul Mantz |first=Don |last=Dwiggins |author-link=Don Dwiggins |location=New York |publisher=Curtis Books |year=1967 |lccn=67-12309 |page=42}}</ref> It was destroyed during filming. At the time of the aircraft's demise it had flown 500,000 miles.<ref>Jackson, Joe, "Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic", Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2012, Library of Congress card number 2011046068, {{ISBN|978-0-374-10675-1}}, Note 38 on Chapter Two - "The Sure Thing", p. 422.</ref>

==Sikorsky S-38==
Replicas of the [[Sikorsky S-38]] were used in the filming of the 2004 [[Martin Scorsese]] biopic of [[Howard Hughes]], ''[[The Aviator (2004 film)|The Aviator]]''.<ref>Lerner, Preston, [http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/howard-hughes-top-ten-5206422/ "Howard Hughes' Top Ten"], November 2004, ''Air & Space'', retrieved 2 February 2017 (NOTE: This link is to the first web page of a four-page article)</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/2005/03/08/cz_af_0308conn.html#4f0cc4041e9a |title=The Aviator's Air Yacht|first=Alan|last=Farnham |website=forbes.com |access-date=21 February 2018}}</ref>

==Sikorsky VS-44==
When [[MGM]] produced the 1959 film ''[[The Gallant Hours]]'', based on the life of US Navy Admiral [[William "Bull" Halsey]], the studio rented a [[Sikorsky VS-44]]A, N41881, named ''Mother Goose'', from [[Catalina Air Lines|Catalina Air Lines, Inc.]], and painted it in wartime camouflage to depict a secret flight that Halsey had made to the South Pacific in a [[Consolidated PB2Y Coronado|Consolidated PB2Y-1 Coronado]]. Although the studio had promised to repaint the flying boat after the production, this did not happen, and the airline had to restore the civilian livery itself.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Klaas |first=M. D. |title=The Flying Aces |journal=Air Classics |publisher=Challenge Publications, Inc. |location=Chatsworth, California |date=September 2013 |volume=49 |number=9 |page=48}}</ref>

==Sopwith Camel==
[[File:Sopwith F-1 Camel USAF.jpg|thumb|right|[[Sopwith Camel]] replica]]

The First World War [[Sopwith Camel]] fighter features prominently in the ''[[Biggles]]'' stories of [[W. E. Johns]] such as the collections: ''The Camels Are Coming'' (1932),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.biggles.info/Details/01/ |title=The Camels are Coming |last=Harris |first=Roger |website=biggles.info |access-date=12 January 2010}}</ref> and ''Biggles of the Camel Squadron'' (1934).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.biggles.info/Details/03/ |title=Biggles of the Camel Squadron |last=Harris |first=Roger |website=biggles.info |access-date=12 January 2010}}</ref>

The 1934 novel ''[[Winged Victory (novel)|Winged Victory]]'' by [[V.M. Yeates|Victor M. Yeates]] features the Sopwith Camel in action during the Great War.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.literature-study-online.com/essays/yeates.html |first=Jenna |last=Austin |title=Winged Victory by Victor Maslin Yeates, A Review |website=Literature-study-online.com |date=September 2008 |access-date=17 August 2012}}</ref>

Sopwith Camels appear in the 2013 novel ''A Splendid Little War'' by [[Derek Robinson (novelist)|Derek Robinson]] which depicts a fictional RAF unit – Merlin Squadron – flying Camels in support of the [[White movement|White forces]] during the [[Russian Civil War]] in 1919.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/370079/Book-review-A-Splendid-Little-War-by-Derek-Robinson |title=Book review: A Splendid Little War by Derek Robinson |first=Tina |last=Moran |newspaper=The Daily Express |date=11 January 2013 |access-date=15 January 2013}}</ref>

==Sopwith 1½ Strutter==
A 1/6 scale radio-controlled model of a [[Sopwith 1½ Strutter]] was constructed by Proctor Enterprises to appear in the ABC television series ''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'' episode "Attack of the Hawkmen" (1995) produced by [[George Lucas]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.proctor-enterprises.com/products/vk/strutter/strutter.htm |title=Sopwith 1½ Strutter |website=Proctor Enterprises |access-date=10 September 2012}}</ref>

A replica Sopwith 1½ Strutter featured in the 2006 film ''[[Flyboys (film)|Flyboys]]'', a drama about the [[Lafayette Escadrille]]. The replica, built in 1992, was purchased from a private museum in Alabama.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/at-the-movies-take-two-10393219/?all&no-ist |title=At the Movies: Take Two |first=Tom |last=LeCompte |date=July 2006 |journal=Air & Space/Smithsonian |access-date=10 September 2012}}</ref>

==Sopwith Pup==
The fictional RFC squadron in [[Derek Robinson (novelist)|Derek Robinson's]] 1999 First World War novel ''Hornet's Sting'' flies the [[Sopwith Pup]].<ref name="guardian2001"/>

==Space Shuttle orbiter==
The Transformers Combaticon named Blast Off, the Autobot Sky Lynx, and Decepticon triple-changer Astrotrain all disguise themselves as Space Shuttle orbiters.{{sfnp|Bellomo|2007|pp=101, 112}}

In the 1979 James Bond film ''[[Moonraker (film)|Moonraker]]'' the film opens with the disappearance during a routine transfer flight, on the back of a Boeing 747, of the eponymous space shuttle, built and operated by the Drax Corporation.<ref name="SS1"/>

In [[Payne Harrison]]'s 1990 novel ''Storming Intrepid'', the shuttle ''Intrepid'' – one of four new shuttles built by the US government – is hijacked by its mission commander, who is a Russian agent. The plot revolves around American efforts to prevent the agent from landing the shuttle in the USSR with its advanced [[Strategic Defense Initiative|SDI]] system intact.<ref name="HarrisonPayne">{{cite book |last=Harrison |first=Payne |title=Storming Intrepid |location=London, UK |publisher=Coronet |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-34053-057-3}}</ref>

In the 2000 film ''[[Space Cowboys]]'', four retired astronauts launch into space aboard the shuttle ''Daedalus'' to repair a crippled Russian [[satellite]].<ref name="SS1"/>

In [[Jon Amiel]]'s 2003 film ''[[The Core]]'', [[Space Shuttle orbiter|space shuttle]] ''[[Space Shuttle Endeavour|Endeavour]]'' is sent off course by a disruption in the [[Earth's magnetic field]], forcing it to land in the concrete-lined channel of the Los Angeles River.<ref name="SS1">{{cite web |url=http://www.avsforum.com/t/1020942/space-shuttles-depicted-in-movies-on-dvd |title=Space Shuttles depicted in movies |date=18 April 2008 |website=AVS Forum |access-date=15 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213012808/http://www.avsforum.com/t/1020942/space-shuttles-depicted-in-movies-on-dvd |archive-date=13 December 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the 2013 film ''[[Gravity (2013 film)|Gravity]]'', space shuttle ''[[Space Shuttle Explorer|Explorer]]'' is destroyed by an out of control satellite in the early portion of the film.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.space.com/23086-gravity-movie-spacecraft-guide.html |title=The Spaceships of 'Gravity': A Spacecraft Movie Guide for Astronauts |first=Miriam |last=Kramer |website=Space.com |date=5 October 2013 |access-date=5 December 2013}}</ref>

==SPAD==
The 1927 [[William Wellman]] film ''Wings'' featured a [[SPAD S.VII]] among many types depicting World War I aircraft.<ref name="historynet1"/>

[[Race Bannon]], flying a [[SPAD S.XIII]], fights a dogfight with a [[Fokker D.VII]], flown by Baron Heinrich von Frohleich in Episode 10 of ''[[Jonny Quest (TV series)|Jonny Quest]]'', "[[List of Jonny Quest episodes|Shadow of the Condor]]", first aired 20 November 1964.<ref name="QuestList"/>

==Stampe SV.4==
The 1976 film ''[[Aces High (film)|Aces High]]'' uses several modified [[Stampe SV.4]] aircraft made to look like [[Royal Flying Corps]] [[Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5]] aircraft. These were prepared by Bianchi Aviation Film Services and flown by well-known pilots including [[Neil Williams (pilot)|Neil Williams]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bianchiaviation.com/ |title=One stop worldwide aviation resource |website=Bianchi Aviation Film Services |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

==Standard J==
A [[Standard J|Standard J-1]] appeared in the 1923 film ''[[The Eleventh Hour (1923 film)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', which starred [[Alan Hale Sr.]] During the film, a J-1 attacks a submarine on the surface but the aircraft is hit by return fire from the vessel and it explodes in mid-air. To film the scene, stunt pilot Dick Kerwood was required to fly over the submarine (loaned by the US Navy) in San Diego Bay and, at about 3,000 feet, parachute out of his plane after setting the timer to explosives which would detonate ten seconds later. However the timer proved faulty and the aircraft exploded before Kerwood could bale out. He was seriously concussed but otherwise escaped injury and he managed to open his chute in time.<ref>Carlson, Mark. ''Flying on Film: A Century of Aviation in the Movies 1912-2012'' Bearmanor Media, 2012 p35.</ref>

==Stearman C3==
A [[Stearman C3|Stearman C3R]] featured in the 1958 film [[No Place to Land (film)|''No Place to Land'']] directed by [[Albert C. Gannaway]] and starring [[John Ireland (actor)|John Ireland]]. The film was a drama about crop-duster pilots in post-war rural California competing with each other for work.<ref>Beck, Simon D. ''The Aircraft-Spotter's Film and Television Companion''. McFarland Publishers, 2016. p. 149.</ref>

==Stinson Model A==
A static replica of a [[Stinson Model A]] was featured in the 1988 Australian TV-film ''[[The Riddle of the Stinson]]'' which starred [[Jack Thompson (actor)|Jack Thompson]]. The film was a dramatisation of the [[1937 Airlines of Australia Stinson crash|true-life crash]] of an Australian Airlines Stinson in Queensland in 1937 which claimed the lives of 5 men and the subsequent rescue of two survivors ten days later by local [[Bernard O'Reilly (author)|Bernard O'Reilly]] who treked into the rainforest and found the crash-site.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://disciplesofflight.com/restoring-stinson-model-a/ |title=Stinson Model A: Restoring a Classic Aircraft|date=18 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oreillys.com.au/uncategorized/stinson-replica-plane-restoration-january-2017/|title=Stinson Replica Plane Restoration January 2017|date=18 February 2017}}</ref>

==Sukhoi Su-24==
The [[Sukhoi Su-24|Su-24]] is featured in the 2021 Russian film ''Sky'' ({{lang-ru|link=no|Небо}}), depicting the events surrounding the Turkish [[2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown|shootdown]] of a Russian Su-24 in 2015.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://theaviationist.com/2021/11/05/russian-movie-su-24-shootdown/ |title=Upcoming Russian Movie Recalls The Story Of The RuAF Su-24 Shot Down In Syria And The Death Of Its Pilot |work=The Aviationist |date=5 November 2021}}</ref>

==Sukhoi Su-25==
The [[Sukhoi Su-25|Su-25]] appears in the 2005 film ''[[Mirror Wars: Reflection One]]''.<ref name="mirrorwars">{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337678/ |title=Zerkalnye voyny. Otrazhenie pervoe |website=IMDb |access-date=5 January 2018}}</ref>

==Sukhoi Su-27 and derivatives==
Su-27 variants also feature prominently in the ''[[Ace Combat]]'' video game series, often being the aircraft of choice for main antagonists. Examples include the Yellow Squadron Su-37s in ''[[Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies]]''; Strigon Team [[Sukhoi Su-33|Su-33]]s in ''[[Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation]]''; Andrei Markov's [[Sukhoi Su-35|Su-35S]] in ''[[Ace Combat: Assault Horizon]]''; and Sol Squadron Su-30M2s and Mihaly A. Shilage's [[Sukhoi Su-30|Su-30SM]] in ''[[Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.skywardfm.com/posts/an-overview-of-the-flanker-family-in-ace-combat |title=An Overview of the Flanker Family in Ace Combat |website= |access-date=}}</ref>

==Sukhoi Su-57==
The [[Sukhoi Su-57]] appears in ''[[Top Gun: Maverick]]'' as the aircraft used by the unnamed hostile nation, and referred to by its NATO reporting name "Felon" or as "fifth-generation fighters".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44972/new-top-gun-trailer-shows-dogfight-between-f-14-and-su-57 |title=New Top Gun Trailer Shows Dogfight Between F-14 and Su-57 |work=The War Zone |date=29 March 2022}}</ref> Two were shot down by a stolen F-14A Tomcat flown by Maverick and Rooster, and another by a F/A-18E Super Hornet flown by Hangman.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Kosinski, Joseph (director) |date=May 27, 2022 |title=Top Gun: Maverick |type=Motion picture |location=United States |publisher=Paramount Pictures}}</ref>

==Supermarine Spitfire==
[[File:Spitfire VB 222 Sqn RAF in flight 1942.jpg|thumb|[[Supermarine Spitfire]] Mk.VB]]
Along with the [[Hawker Hurricane]],<ref name="without"/> the [[Supermarine Spitfire]] fighter is strongly linked to the [[Battle of Britain]] in summer 1940, where the [[Royal Air Force]] fought the German [[Luftwaffe]] over the skies of Britain for air superiority.<ref name="olga"/> It has been featured in many works of fiction related to the Battle of Britain.

The 1951 film ''[[Malta Story]]'' is about Spitfires and their pilots defending Malta in 1942.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BeMeAAAAIBAJ&pg=7289,1061476&dq=film+spitfire+aircraft+%7C+plane+-grill&hl=en |title=Alec Guinness stars in Malta Story |last=Ward |first=Henry |date=6 August 1955 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Press |access-date=19 January 2010}}</ref>

A Spitfire IXc was one of at least two used in the production of the 1962 World War II epic film ''[[The Longest Day (film)|The Longest Day]]''. The same aircraft also appeared in ''[[Von Ryan's Express]]'' (1965), ''[[Night of the Generals]]'' (1967), and ''[[Battle of Britain (film)|Battle of Britain]]'' (1969).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sonsofdamien.co.uk/MK297.htm |title=Spitfire Mk.LFIXc MK297 |website=Sons of Damien.co.uk |access-date=11 September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thevictoryshow.co.uk/Aircraft/SpitfireMKV/tabid/727/language/en-US/Default.aspx |title=Spitfire Mk.V |website=The Victory Show |access-date=11 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120151108/http://thevictoryshow.co.uk/Aircraft/SpitfireMKV/tabid/727/language/en-US/Default.aspx |archive-date=20 January 2013}}</ref>

The Spitfire was a central part of the 1969 film ''[[Battle of Britain (film)|Battle of Britain]]'', directed by [[Guy Hamilton]], a fictionalized account of the real [[Battle of Britain]] that one critic called "the definitive depiction of war in the air".<ref name="Burman"/> The film led to an increase in the popularity of the aircraft among collectors of [[warbird]]s. According to one property dealer the appearance "did for Spitfires what the James Bond films did for the Aston Martin."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10567818 |title=Killer looks seduce property man |last=McSmith |first=Andy |date=22 April 2009 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=19 January 2010}}</ref> Producers secured 35 Spitfires for use in the film.<ref name="Burman"/>

The Spitfire was also the main aircraft used in the 1988 miniseries ''[[Piece of Cake (TV series)|Piece of Cake]]''. The series was based on [[Piece of Cake (novel)|a novel by the same name]]. Pilots in the novel flew the Hawker Hurricane, but the lack of airworthy Hurricanes forced the producers to change aircraft types, using five privately owned airworthy Spitfires and a collection of static and taxiing replicas.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19900706&slug=1080871 |title=It's Easy To Get Up About Something Like 'Piece of Cake' |last=Voorhees |first=John |date=6 July 1990 |newspaper=The Seattle Times|access-date=19 January 2010}}</ref>

Real-life World War II RAF ace [[Douglas Bader]] was portrayed as a night-flying Spitfire pilot during [[The Blitz]] in an episode of the second season ofbthe animated Disney series [[Gargoyles (TV series)|''Gargoyles'']]. In the episode ("M.I.A.") Bader's life was saved during air combat by [[Goliath (Gargoyles)|Goliath]] and [[List of Gargoyles characters#London Clan|Griff]].<ref>{{cite episode |title= M.I.A. |episode-link= List of Gargoyles episodes |series= Gargoyles |series-link= Gargoyles (TV series) |credits= Director: Kazuo Terada; Writers: Robert Cohen (writer), Michael Reaves (written by), Greg Weisman (creator) |network= syndicated |airdate= 21 December 1995 |season= 2 |number= 43}}</ref>

The 2001 Czech film ''[[Dark Blue World]]'', a World War II drama about Czech pilots who flew with the Royal Air Force directed by [[Jan Svěrák]], featured Spitfires. The vintage Spitfires cost the film-makers US$7,500 an hour to use. The aerial sequences were a combination of live aerial footage, CGI and out-takes from the 1969 film ''[[Battle of Britain (film)|The Battle of Britain]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://culture.com/articles/735/dark-blue-world-production-notes.phtml |title=Dark Blue World : Production Notes |website=Culture.com |access-date=29 July 2012}}</ref>

Spitfires starred in the 2006 seven-minute short film ''Pilots'', produced as a commercial by the Swiss-German watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen to promote its Big Pilot's Watch Collection. [[John Malkovich]] featured in the film.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gomelsky |first=Victoria |date=8 March 2012 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/fashion/09iht-acaw-video09.html?pagewanted=all |title=Time Takes a Star Turn in Industry's Short Films |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=29 July 2012}}</ref>

In the 2017 movie ''[[Dunkirk (2017 film)|Dunkirk]],'' directed by [[Christopher Nolan]], three Spitfires were featured defending the evacuation of British and French troops from Dunkirk against attacks by the German Luftwaffe.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-08-03 |title=How realistic are Dunkirk's Spitfire flight scenes? |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2017/08/how-realistic-are-dunkirks-spitfire-flight-scenes |access-date=2022-04-26 |website=New Statesman |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Supermarine Swift==
The second prototype [[Supermarine Swift]] appeared as the ''Prometheus'' in the 1952 film ''[[The Sound Barrier]]''.<ref name="aerofilesFilmsB"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=Charles Ferdinand |last2=Morgan |first2=Eric B. |title=Supermarine Aircraft since 1914 |edition=2nd |year=1987 |publisher=Putnam |location=London |isbn=0-85177-800-3 |page=284}}</ref>

==TBD Devastator==
[[Douglas TBD Devastator|Douglas TBDs]] appear in the 2019 film [[Midway (2019 film)|''Midway'']] directed by [[Roland Emmerich]]. To portray the aircraft, the producers recreated TBDs digitally<ref name="auto5"/> and also constructed a full-scale static replica which, after filming was completed, was donated to the [[USS Midway Museum|USS ''Midway'' Museum]] in San Diego.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/military/story/2019-11-04/midway-museum-historic-plane |title=Midway Museum adds historic plane to collection, via Hollywood |date=4 November 2019 |website=San Diego Union-Tribune}}</ref> In the film, TBDs are depicted as simultaneously carrying a pair of 500-pound bombs on wing racks in addition to a torpedo, a scene which would not have happened in reality, as under-powered TBDs struggled enough with the weight of just a torpedo.<ref name="auto5"/>

==Tupolev Tu-154==
A [[Tupolev Tu-154|Tupolev Tu-154B]] was in the centre of the plot of the 1979 Soviet film ''[[Air Crew]]''. The film is a recognized classic in [[Commonwealth of Independent States]] (CIS) countries.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aif.ru/culture/movie/1315232|title="Экипаж"-миллионник. Наш первый фильм-катастрофу делали буквально "вручную"|first=Марина|last=Мурзина|date=16 August 2014|website=aif.ru}}</ref>

==UFM Easy Riser==
The [[UFM Easy Riser]] was one of two ultralight aircraft that lead the [[Canada geese]] south in the 1996 film ''[[Fly Away Home]]''. The film was a highly fictionalized account based on [[Bill Lishman]]'s autobiography and work with [[Operation Migration]], but both Lishman's real-life migratory experiments teaching birds to migrate and the film used the Easy Riser, due to its low cruising speed, which allowed the birds to pace the aircraft in flight.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://williamlishman.com/ultralight-aircraft/ |title=Ultralight aircraft |website=williamlishman.com |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960913/REVIEWS/609130303/1023 |title=Fly Away Home |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=13 September 1996 |newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |access-date=9 March 2011 |archive-date=4 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130104022421/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19960913%2FREVIEWS%2F609130303%2F1023 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Vickers FB5 Gunbus==
[[File:Vickers F.B.9.jpg|thumb|[[Vickers FB5]]]]

A replica [[Vickers FB5]] was constructed to appear in the 1986 film ''[[Sky Bandits (1986 film)|Sky Bandits]]'' (also released under the title ''Gunbus'') which was about a pair of cowboys who flee the US to escape prison for a bank robbery and end up serving in the RFC during the Great War. The replica, built as a taxiing prop for the film, is currently housed at Sywell Aerodrome in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sywellaerodrome.co.uk/sywell-aerodrome-magazine-2006-42-funbus.php |title=All aboard the Funbus! |website=Sywell Aerodrome |access-date=28 April 2015 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924112638/http://www.sywellaerodrome.co.uk/sywell-aerodrome-magazine-2006-42-funbus.php |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Vickers Wellington==
The [[Vickers Wellington]] features in the 1941 film ''[[Target for Tonight]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Crowther |first=Bosley |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9807E0DB163DE333A2575BC1A9669D946093D6CF |title='Target for Tonight,' a Fine Fact Film About the R.A.F. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=18 October 1941 |access-date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

[[Nevil Shute]]'s romance ''[[Pastoral (1944 novel)|Pastoral]]'' is a wartime story of a pilot and his crew of a Wellington bomber based at a fictional RAF station called "Hartley Magna".<ref>{{cite book |last=Francis |first=Martin |title=The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force 1939–1945 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PISsdI3gZ3oC&pg=PT142|date=27 November 2008 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-161696-9 |pages=142–143}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MjEbAAAAIBAJ&pg=4492%2C3227091 |title=Simple Love in 'Pastoral' : Nevil Shute wins praise for the novel |newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press |date=22 October 1944 |access-date=3 November 2015}}</ref>

A Vickers Wellington features in the 1961 comedy film ''[[Very Important Person (film)|Very Important Person]]'' (released in the US as ''A Coming Out Party''). In the film, the central character, a military scientist named Sir Ernest Pease ([[James Robertson Justice]]) is taken over Germany during WW2 to test a top-secret apparatus. However the Wellington is hit by anti-aircraft fire and Pease is sucked out through a hole in the fuselage, parachuting into enemy territory and ending up in a POW camp.<ref>Ashley, Mark. ''Flying Film Stars: The Directory of British Aircraft in World War Two Films''. Air Research Publications, UK 2014. p. 174.</ref>

The 1968 Czechoslovak film ''[[Nebeští jezdci]]'' (''Sky Riders'') about Czechoslovak airmen in RAF Bomber Command featured a Vickers Wellington.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://jezdci.valka.cz/film-nebesti-jezdci/rekvizity|title=Rekvizity &#124; Nebeští jezdci}}</ref> It was depicted by a taxiing replica based on an extensively modified [[Lisunov Li-2]]. Flight sequences were shot with large scale replicas and the film also incorporated wartime stock footage, including scenes from ''Target for Tonight''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kucera |first1=Pavel |title=Recreating a Wimpy |journal=Aeroplane Monthly |date=September 2001 |issue=341 |pages=72–75}}</ref>

A haunted Vickers Wellington is the subject of [[Robert Westall]]'s macabre, and critically appreciated, 1982 short story ''Blackham's Wimpy''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reynolds |first1=Kimberly |last2=Brennan |first2=Geraldine |last3=McCarron |first3=Kevin |title=Frightening Fiction |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jd5XngEACAAJ |year=2004 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-0-8264-7758-3}}</ref>

Irish graphic novelist [[Garth Ennis]] chose the Wellington to be the aircraft flown by the Australian crew of RAF Bomber Command in his 2010 graphic novel ''Happy Valley'', set in 1942 during the early phase of the night bombing offensive and one of his ''[[Battlefields (comics)|Battlefields]]'' series.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=user_review&id=1706 |first=Doug |last=Zawisza |title=Review: Battlefields: Happy Valley No. 1 |website=Comic Book Resources |date=26 December 2009 |access-date=9 July 2012}}</ref>

==V-22 Osprey==
Two [[Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey|Bell-Boeing CV-22 Ospreys]] (of only three in the USAF inventory at the time)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.af.mil/news/story_media.asp?id=123021212 |title=Ospreys in flight |first=Russell |last=Scalf |date=26 May 2006 |website=United States Air Force |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070508235351/http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123021212 |archive-date=8 May 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> were filmed in flight at [[Holloman Air Force Base]], [[New Mexico]], in May 2006 for the 2007 ''Transformers'' film.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123021221 |title=Movie project transforms Holloman |first=Arlan |last=Ponder |agency=49th Fighter Wing Public Affairs |publisher=United States Air Force |date=5 June 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019054135/http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123021221 |archive-date=19 October 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123059424 |title='Transformers' put Airmen, aircraft on big screen |first=Larry A. |last=Simmons |agency=Air Force News Agency |publisher=United States Air Force |date=3 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019054326/http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123059424 |archive-date=19 October 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> This would inspire a host of Transformers toys and characters based on the Osprey including the Decepticons Incinerator and [[Ruination (Transformers)|Ruination]] as well as the Autobots [[Springer (Transformers)|Springer]] and [[Blades (Transformers)|Blades]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seibertron.com/news/view.php?id=11280&f_cat=&f_year=&f_keyword=incinerator |title=New Images of Transformers Movie "Allspark Power" Figures, Cliffjumper, Brawl Repaint and More! |access-date=19 January 2010 |website=Seibertron.com |date=29 July 2007}}</ref>

==Waco 10==
At least seven [[Waco 10]] biplanes were employed in the production of the 1928 silent film [[Lilac Time (1928 film)|''Lilac Time'']], a romantic drama about a British pilot in the Royal Flying Corps in WW1. The film was directed by [[George Fitzmaurice]] and starred [[Gary Cooper]]. Wacos played the role of generic RFC planes and three were deliberately crashed during filming of the aerial combat scenes. [[Dick Grace]], only just recovered from injuries he sustained while working on the film [[Wings (1927 film)|''Wings'']] the previous year, was the stunt pilot for two of the crash-landing scenes.<ref>Carlson, Mark. ''Flying on Film: A Century of Aviation in the Movies 1912-2012'' Bearmanor Media, 2012 pp. 53-54.</ref>

==Wallis Autogyro==
The [[Wallis WA-116 Agile]] was an [[autogyro]] offering improved stability over previous designs. It was developed in the 1960s by [[Ken Wallis]], a former [[Wing commander (rank)|Wing Commander]] of the [[Royal Air Force|RAF]]. Following a prototype, five WA-116s were built by [[Beagle Aircraft]] at [[Shoreham-by-Sea|Shoreham]], three of which were for evaluation by the British [[Army Air Corps (United Kingdom)|Army Air Corps]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Jackson |first=Aubrey Joseph |title=British Civil Aircraft since 1919 |volume=3 |location=London |publisher=Putnam & Company Ltd |year=1974 |isbn=978-0-370-10014-2}}</ref> In 1966, one of the Beagle-built WA-116s, registered ''G-ARZB'', was modified for use in the 1967 [[James Bond]] film ''[[You Only Live Twice (film)|You Only Live Twice]]''. The WA-116 was dubbed "Little Nellie" and was flown by Ken Wallis, who was doubling for [[Sean Connery]]'s James Bond.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kenwallisautogyro.com/ |title=Ken Wallis |website=Kenwallisautogyro.com |date=4 July 2010 |access-date=15 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927232529/http://www.kenwallisautogyro.com/ |archive-date=27 September 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==''Wright Flyer''==
The [[Wright brothers]]' ''[[Wright Flyer]]'' is featured in the seventh season episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' "[[Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming]]". In the episode, first aired 26 November 1995, [[Sideshow Bob]] steals the ''Flyer'' while it is on display at an airshow. While [[Krusty the Clown]] is making a television broadcast from a shack, Sideshow Bob flies into the side of the building in an attempt to stop the broadcast. Instead of demolishing the building, the frail ''Flyer'' merely bounces off the wall undamaged.<ref>{{cite book |last=Groening |first=Matt |author-link=Matt Groening |editor1-first=Ray |editor1-last=Richmond |editor1-link=Ray Richmond |editor2-first=Antonia |editor2-last=Coffman |title=[[The Simpsons episode guides#The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family|The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family]] |edition=1st |year=1997 |location=New York |publisher=[[HarperPerennial]] |lccn=98141857 |ol=433519M |oclc=37796735 |isbn=978-0-06-095252-5 |ref={{harvid|Richmond & Coffman|1997}} |page=[https://archive.org/details/simpsonscomplete00groe/page/190 190]}}</ref>

==Wright Model B==
Several replicas of the [[Wright Model B]] were constructed for the filming of the 1978 telemovie ''[[The Winds of Kitty Hawk]]''. One of the replicas is now owned and preserved by Wright B Flyers Inc. based in Dayton, Ohio.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wright-b-flyer.org/aircraft/valentine-flyer.html |title=Valentine Flyer |website=Wright B Flyer Inc. |date=2 March 1910 |access-date=9 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213062924/http://www.wright-b-flyer.org/aircraft/valentine-flyer.html |archive-date=13 December 2013}}</ref>

==XB-51==
[[File:XB-51.jpg|thumb|right|[[Martin XB-51]] in ''[[Toward the Unknown]]'']]

The [[Martin XB-51]] depicted the fictional Gilbert XF-120 in the 1956 film ''[[Toward the Unknown]]'', starring [[William Holden]] as a test pilot.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Thompson |first=Lance |title=Valley of the Kings |location=Stamford, Lincs., UK |journal=FlyPast |date=December 1997 |number=197 |page=25}}</ref> On 25 March 1956, the first XB-51 prototype, ''46-0685'', crashed in sand dunes near [[Biggs Army Airfield|Biggs Air Force Base]], [[El Paso, Texas]], killing both crew, while staging to [[Eglin Air Force Base|Eglin AFB]], Florida, for filming of scenes for the motion picture.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Peterson |first=Wayne |title=Toward The Unknown |location=Woodland, Hills, California |journal=Wings |date=June 2002 |volume=32 |number=3 |page=13}}</ref>

==Zeppelin==
A [[Zeppelin]] appears in the 1929 [[Fox Film Corporation|Fox Corporation]] film ''[[The Sky Hawk]]'' which was directed by [[John G. Blystone]]. The film portrayed an aristocratic Englishman Jack Bardell (played by [[John Garrick]]) who joins the Royal Flying Corps during the Great War. In the film, Bardell is badly injured in a crash in France which leaves him with only partial use of his legs. The unclear circumstances surrounding the crash lead him to suffer accusations of cowardice. Determined to reclaim his honour, Bardell secretly rebuilds a derelict aircraft and attaches special stirrups to the rudder pedals so he is able to fly it. He takes off on an un-authorised patrol over London and destroys a Zeppelin raider, restoring his reputation in the process.<ref>Carlson, Mark. ''Flying on Film: A Century of Aviation in the Movies 1912-2012'' Bearmanor Media, 2012 pp. 57-58.</ref>

A German Zeppelin is shot down in the 1930 [[Howard Hughes]] film ''[[Hell's Angels (film)|Hell's Angels]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hall |first=Mordaunt |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9904E7DF1338E433A25755C1A96E9C946194D6CF |title=The Screen |newspaper=The New York Times |date=16 August 1930}}</ref>

A bombing raid by a Zeppelin comprises a major plot point in the Elsie McCutcheon novel ''Summer of the Zeppelin''.<ref>{{cite journal |jstor=818888 |title=Young Adult Literature – Wars and Rumors of Wars, by Beth Nelms and Ben Nelms |journal=[[The English Journal]] |publisher=[[National Council of Teachers of English]] |volume=75 |number=3 |date=March 1986 |pages=106–108|doi=10.2307/818888}}</ref>

==Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI==
In the 2017 film ''[[Wonder Woman (2017 film)|Wonder Woman]]'', a [[Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI]] is loaded with 4,500 pounds of bombs filled with poisonous gas intended for [[London]]. [[Steve Trevor]] destroys it by detonating the payload mid-flight, sacrificing himself.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/a26769/world-war-i-poison-gas-wonder-woman/ |title=How Realistic Is the WWI Warfare of 'Wonder Woman'? |date=5 June 2017 |website=popularmechanics.com |access-date=14 June 2017}}</ref>
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== See also ==
* [[List of fictional spacecraft]]
* [[Airborne aircraft carrier]]
* [[Aviation accidents and incidents in fiction]]

==References==

===Notes===
{{Reflist}}

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==Further reading==
* {{cite book |last=Call |first=Steve |url=https://archive.org/details/sellingairpowerm0000call |title=Selling Air Power Military Aviation and American Popular Culture After World War II |year=2009 |publisher=Texas A&M University Press |isbn=978-1-60344-100-1 |url-access=registration}}
* {{cite book |last=Van Riper |first=A. Bowdoin |url=https://archive.org/details/imaginingflighta0000vanr |title=Imagining Flight: Aviation and Popular Culture |year=2004 |publisher=Texas A&M University Press |location=College Station, Texas, USA |url-access=registration |isbn=1-58544-300-X}}

==External links==
* [http://rotaryaction.com/ Rotary Action guide to helicopters in movies and television]
* [http://impdb.org/index.php?title=The_Internet_Movie_Plane_Database The Internet Movie Plane Database]

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