Airplane Songs

Aviation Day is celebrated on the birthday of Orville Wright, August 19. Orville and his brother Wilbur were two American inventors credited to inventing the world’s the first successful airplane. They also had the first controlled, powered, and sustained heavier-than-air human flight. The Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made the fixed-wing powered flight possible.

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In our list of Aviation Day songs, you will find songs with the word airplane -or- plane in the song title.

10. Airplanes – Nehemiah featuring Jen
Released 2015, Christian Hip Hop
Album Building Block 2.5

9. Planes – Jeremih featuring J. Cole
Released 2015, R&B
Album Late Nights

8. Ca Plane Pour Moi – Sonic Youth
The song was first released in 1977 by Plastic Bertrand.
Released in 1992, Rock
Album Freedom of Choice: Yesterday’s New Wave Hits as Performed by Today’s Stars

7. Big Jet Plane – Angus & Julia Stone
Released 2010, Folk

6. Watching Airplanes – Gary Allan
Released 2007, Country
Album Living Hard

5. Leaving On A Jet Plane – Peter, Paul, and Mary
Originally written by John Denver in 1966.
Released 1967, Folk
Album Album 1700

4. Drunk On A Plane – Dierks Bentley
Released 2014, Country
Album Riser

3. Airplanes – B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams
Released 2010, Hip Hop
Album B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray

2. Paper Planes – M.I.A.
Released 2007, Alternative Rock
Album Kala

1. Leaving on a Jet Plane – John Denver
Folk
Written in 1966 and his own release in 1973 on album Rhymes & Reasons

Other Popular Plane Songs

Outbound Plane – Suzy Bogguss

Next Plane Out – Celine Dion

Crazy In The Night (Barking At Airplanes) – Kim Carnes

Airplanes And Airwaves – Aftermath

Airplane – Indigo Girls

Snakes On A Plane (Bring It) – Cobra Starship

Plane Crash – moe.

We really cannot write a list of songs about airplanes without mentioning the rock group Jefferson Airplane! Their biggest hits included “White Rabbit” and “Somebody To Love”.