Songs About Airplanes & Flying

Taking flight across the wild blue skies here are songs for those searching for topical songs about airplanes and flying. Maybe these songs will help you “gear up” for that next business trip or family getaway to visit the relatives cross country. The feature here are songs about air travel and words that suggest that in the title. Airports, airplanes, jets, planes, flying, flight, pilot, Air Force are among the words accepted within the title. A few of the songs listed here don’t necessarily have anything to do with travel, but are used as metaphors about love, life and relationships.  A few here even deal with that other form of being “high”. The songs included in the bonus section are additional selections that don’t use any of the key words listed above in the title but have multiple referrals to planes and or flying within the lyrics. Something tells me there are a number of additional songs out there on the subject since this list is smaller than majority of the others I have done in the past. Hopefully these songs may inspire you to create a custom mp3 playlist on your ipod (or burn a cd) for your next themed event, air vacation, business flight or simply for your own personal enjoyment.

‘Airplane’ Songs

1. Aeroplane – Bjork
2. Aeroplane – Red Hot Chili Peppers
3. The Aeroplane Flies High – Smashing Pumpkins
4. Air Force One – Godley & Creme
5. Air Force Ones – Nelly
6. Airplane – Beach Boys
7. Airplane – Indigo Girls
8. Airplane Song (My Airplane) – Royal Guardsmen
9. Bennie & The Jets – Elton John
10. Burning Airlines Give You So Much More – Brian Eno
11. Counting Airplanes – Train
12. Crazy In The Night (Barking At Airplanes) – Kim Carnes
13. Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) – Woody Guthrie
14. Free Mexican Air Force – Peter Rowan
15. Great Airplane Strike – Paul Revere & The Raiders
16. If Love Was A Plane – Brad Paisley
17. It’s Gonna Take An Airplane – Destroyer
18. Jet – Paul McCartney & Wings
19. Jet Airliner – Steve Miller Band
20. Jet City Woman – Queensryche
21. LA International Airport – Susan Raye
22. Leaving On A Jet Plane – John Denver
23. Leaving On A Jet Plane – Peter, Paul & Mary
24. Next Plane To London – Rose Garden
25. Outbound Plane – Suzy Bogguss
26. Paper Airplanes – Seals & Crofts
27. Plane (If The Plane Goes Down) – Jason Mraz
28. Planes – Jefferson Starship
29. Trains & Boats & Planes – Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas
30. Watching Airplanes – Gary Allan
31. Wooden Planes – Art Garfunkel

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Bonus …..

These are the bonus songs with reference to air travel within the lyrical content of the song, however the title doesn’t include one of the key words listed above in the introduction. Still, lots of great stuff here to choose from. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

1. Aces High – Iron Maiden
2. Back In The USSR – The Beatles
3. Bomber – Motorhead
4. Coming Into Los Angeles – Arlo Guthris
5. Danger Zone – Kenny Loggins
6. Daniel – Elton John
7. Ebony Eyes – Everly Brothers
8. Eight Miles High – The Byrds
9. Enola Gay- Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark [OMD]
10. Flight of Icarus – Iron Maiden
11. Flight of The Bumble Bee – Classical masterpiece by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1899)
12. Flight ’76 – Walter Murphy Band
13. Freebird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
14. The Ghost of Flight 401 – Bob Welch
15. It Never Rains In Southern California – Albert Hammond
16. Just A Song Before I Go – Crosby Stills & Nash
17. Love Light In Flight – Stevie Wonder
18. Magic Carpet Ride – Steppenwolf
19. Major Tom (Coming Home) – Peter Schilling
20. One Flight Down – Norah Jones
21. Pilot of The Airwaves – Charlie Dore
22. Return of The Red Baron – Royal Guardsmen
23. Rocket – Goldfrapp
24. Rocket Man – Elton John
25. Sky Pilot – The Animals
26. Snoopy vs The Red Baron – Royal Guardsmen
27. Snoopy’s Christmas – Royal Guardsmen
28. Snowbird – Anne Murray
29. Somewhere Over The Rainbow – Judy Garland (Wizard of Oz)/Eric Clapton/Tori Amos/Connie Talbot
30. Space Oddity – David Bowie
31. Speed of Sound – Coldplay
32. Spread Your Wings – Queen
33. Take Me To The Pilot – Elton John
34. The Epic Flight of John Glenn – Walter Brennan
35. The Letter – Box Tops
36. The Letter – Joe Cocker
37. The Spirit of St. Louis – British Sea Power
38. This Flight Tonight – Joni Mitchell
39. Twenty Flight Rock – Eddie Cochran
40. Up Up And Away – 5th Dimension
41. Up Where We Belong – Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes

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‘Flying’ Songs

1. Angels Flying Too Close To The Ground – Willie Nelson
2. Born To Fly – Sara Evans
3. Come Fly With Me – Frank Sinatra
4. Fallin’ & Flyin’ – Jeff Bridges (from the 2009 movie ‘Crazy Heart’)
5. Fly – Celine Dion
6. Fly – Nickelback
7. Fly – Sugar Ray
8. Fly – Hilary Duff
9. Fly (The Angel Song) – The Wilkinsons
10. Fly Away – John Denver
11. Fly Away – Lenny Kravitz
12. Fly Away Again – Dave Dudley
13. Fly Away (Little Paraquayo) – George Baker Selection
14. Fly By Night – Rush
15. Fly From The Inside – Shinedown
16. Fly Into Love – Charley McClain
17. Fly Like A Bird – Mariah Carey
18. Fly Like An Eagle – Steve Miller Band
19. Fly Like An Eagle – Seal
20. Fly Me Away – Annie Little (heard in one of the TV commercials for the Amazon ‘Kindle’)
21. Fly Me Away – Goldfrapp
22. Fly Me To The Moon – Frank Sinatra
23. Fly, Robin, Fly – Silver Convention
24. Fly To The Angels – Slaughter
25. Flyin’ South – Hank Locklin
26. Flying Away – Mary J. Blige
27. Flying – The Beatles
28. Flying – Prism
29. Flying Down To Rio – Fred Astaire
30. Flying Down To Rio – Rudy Vallee
31. Flying High – The Commodores
32. Flying High Again – Ozzy Osbourne
33. Flying In A Blue Dream – Joe Satriani
34. Flying On The Ground Is Wrong – Neil Young
35. Flying Saucer – Buchanan & Goodman
36. Flying Saucer The 2nd – Buchanan & Goodman
37. Flying Without Wings – Westlife
38. Flying Without Wings – Ruben Studdard
39. Gonna Fly Now (Theme From Rocky) – Bill Conti/Maynard Ferguson
40. I Believe I Can Fly – R. Kelly
41. If I Could Fly – Joe Satriani
42. I’ll Fly Away – Statler Brothers
43. I’ll Fly Away – Jars of Clay
44. I’m Gonna Fly – Amy Grant
45. Into The Night (If I Could Fly) – Benny Mardones
46. Last Dollar (Fly Away) – Tim McGraw
47. Learn To Fly – Foo Fighters
48. Learning To Fly – Pink Floyd
49. Learning To Fly – Tom Petty
50. Let’s Go Fly A Kite – From Mary Poppins soundtrack
51. Midnight Flyer – Osbourne Brothers
52. Midnight Flyer – The Eagles
53. Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly – Vanessa Williams/Lizz Wright
54. Straighten Up & Fly Right – Nat King Cole
55. Texas Bound & Flyin’ – Jerry Reed (from the 1980 movie ‘Smoky & The Bandit 2′)
56. Time For Me To Fly – REO Speedwagon
57. We Can Fly – The Cowsills
58. Where Eagles Fly – Sammy Hagar
59. Where The Stars & Stripes & The Eagle Fly – Aaron Tippin
60. Wish I Could Fly – Roxette
61. Wish I Could Fly Like Superman – The Kinks
62. Why Walk When You Can Fly – Mary Chapin Carpenter
63. You Can Fly, You Can Fly, You Can Fly – from Peter Pan soundtrack

Freshly Updated 5/1/2010 and again on 3/7/2011