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
- Aeroplane – Bjork
- Aeroplane – Red Hot Chili Peppers
- The Aeroplane Flies High – Smashing Pumpkins
- Air Force One – Godley & Creme
- Air Force Ones – Nelly
- Airplane – Beach Boys
- Airplane – Indigo Girls
- Airplane Song (My Airplane) – Royal Guardsmen
- Bennie & The Jets – Elton John
- Burning Airlines Give You So Much More – Brian Eno
- Counting Airplanes – Train
- Crazy In The Night (Barking At Airplanes) – Kim Carnes
- Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) – Woody Guthrie
- Free Mexican Air Force – Peter Rowan
- Great Airplane Strike – Paul Revere & The Raiders
- If Love Was A Plane – Brad Paisley
- It’s Gonna Take An Airplane – Destroyer
- Jet – Paul McCartney & Wings
- Jet Airliner – Steve Miller Band
- Jet City Woman – Queensryche
- LA International Airport – Susan Raye
- Leaving On A Jet Plane – John Denver
- Leaving On A Jet Plane – Peter, Paul & Mary
- Next Plane To London – Rose Garden
- Outbound Plane – Suzy Bogguss
- Paper Airplanes – Seals & Crofts
- Plane (If The Plane Goes Down) – Jason Mraz
- Planes – Jefferson Starship
- Trains & Boats & Planes – Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas
- Watching Airplanes – Gary Allan
- 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
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- Aces High – Iron Maiden
- Back In The USSR – The Beatles
- Bomber – Motorhead
- Coming Into Los Angeles – Arlo Guthris
- Danger Zone – Kenny Loggins
- Daniel – Elton John
- Dreams – Van Halen
- Ebony Eyes – Everly Brothers
- Eight Miles High – The Byrds
- Enola Gay- Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark [OMD]
- Flight of Icarus – Iron Maiden
- Flight of The Bumble Bee – Classical masterpiece by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1899)
- Flight ’76 – Walter Murphy Band
- Freebird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
- The Ghost of Flight 401 – Bob Welch
- It Never Rains In Southern California – Albert Hammond
- Just A Song Before I Go – Crosby Stills & Nash
- Love Light In Flight – Stevie Wonder
- Magic Carpet Ride – Steppenwolf
- Major Tom (Coming Home) – Peter Schilling
- One Flight Down – Norah Jones
- Pilot of The Airwaves – Charlie Dore
- Return of The Red Baron – Royal Guardsmen
- Rocket – Goldfrapp
- Rocket Man – Elton John
- Silver Wings – Merle Haggard
- Sky Pilot – The Animals
- Snoopy vs The Red Baron – Royal Guardsmen
- Snoopy’s Christmas – Royal Guardsmen
- Snowbird – Anne Murray
- Somewhere Over The Rainbow – Judy Garland (Wizard of Oz)/Eric Clapton/Tori Amos/Connie Talbot
- Space Oddity – David Bowie
- Speed of Sound – Coldplay
- Spread Your Wings – Queen
- Take Me To The Pilot – Elton John
- The Epic Flight of John Glenn – Walter Brennan
- The Letter – Box Tops
- The Letter – Joe Cocker
- The Spirit of St. Louis – British Sea Power
- This Flight Tonight – Joni Mitchell
- Twenty Flight Rock – Eddie Cochran
- Up Up And Away – 5th Dimension
- Up Where We Belong – Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
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‘Flying’ Songs
- Angels Flying Too Close To The Ground – Willie Nelson
- Born To Fly – Sara Evans
- Come Fly With Me – Frank Sinatra
- Fallin’ & Flyin’ – Jeff Bridges (from the 2009 movie ‘Crazy Heart’)
- Fly – Celine Dion
- Fly – Nickelback
- Fly – Sugar Ray
- Fly – Hilary Duff
- Fly (The Angel Song) – The Wilkinsons
- Fly Away – John Denver
- Fly Away – Lenny Kravitz
- Fly Away Again – Dave Dudley
- Fly Away (Little Paraquayo) – George Baker Selection
- Fly By Night – Rush
- Fly From The Inside – Shinedown
- Fly Into Love – Charley McClain
- Fly Like A Bird – Mariah Carey
- Fly Like An Eagle – Steve Miller Band
- Fly Like An Eagle – Seal
- Fly Me Away – Annie Little (from a TV commercial for the Amazon ‘Kindle’)
- Fly Me Away – Goldfrapp
- Fly Me To The Moon – Frank Sinatra
- Fly, Robin, Fly – Silver Convention
- Fly To The Angels – Slaughter
- Flyin’ South – Hank Locklin
- Flying Away – Mary J. Blige
- Flying – The Beatles
- Flying – Prism
- Flying Down To Rio – Fred Astaire
- Flying Down To Rio – Rudy Vallee
- Flying High – The Commodores
- Flying High Again – Ozzy Osbourne
- Flying In A Blue Dream – Joe Satriani
- Flying On The Ground Is Wrong – Neil Young
- Flying Saucer – Buchanan & Goodman
- Flying Saucer The 2nd – Buchanan & Goodman
- Flying Without Wings – Westlife
- Flying Without Wings – Ruben Studdard
- Gonna Fly Now (Theme From Rocky) – Bill Conti/Maynard Ferguson
- I Believe I Can Fly – R. Kelly
- If I Could Fly – Joe Satriani
- I’ll Fly Away – Statler Brothers
- I’ll Fly Away – Jars of Clay
- I’m Gonna Fly – Amy Grant
- Into The Night (If I Could Fly) – Benny Mardones
- Last Dollar (Fly Away) – Tim McGraw
- Learn To Fly – Foo Fighters
- Learning To Fly – Pink Floyd
- Learning To Fly – Tom Petty
- Let’s Go Fly A Kite – From Mary Poppins soundtrack
- Midnight Flyer – Osbourne Brothers
- Midnight Flyer – The Eagles
- Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly – Vanessa Williams/Lizz Wright
- Straighten Up & Fly Right – Nat King Cole
- Texas Bound & Flyin’ – Jerry Reed (from the 1980 movie ‘Smoky & The Bandit 2’)
- Time For Me To Fly – REO Speedwagon
- We Can Fly – The Cowsills
- Where Eagles Fly – Sammy Hagar
- Where The Stars & Stripes & The Eagle Fly – Aaron Tippin
- Wish I Could Fly – Roxette
- Wish I Could Fly Like Superman – The Kinks
- Why Walk When You Can Fly – Mary Chapin Carpenter
- You Can Fly, You Can Fly, You Can Fly – from Peter Pan soundtrack
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