Synonyms of airplanes

airplanes

noun

plural of airplane

as in planes

a vehicle for traveling through the air that has fixed wings for lift

my uncle learned how to fly an airplane while serving in the air force

Synonyms & Similar Words

• planes
• aeroplanes
• airliners
• aircraft
• airships
• ships
• jets
• bombers
• biplanes
• tractors
• freighters
• seaplanes
• airframes
• tankers
• jetliners
• liners
• fighters
• turboprops
• air taxis
• warplanes
• turbojets
• gliders
• amphibians
• supersonics
• rocket planes
• sailplanes
• supersonic transports
• torpedo bombers
• aerodynes
• aerospace planes
• lightplanes
• triplanes
• superjets
• trijets
• jump jets
• air-cushion vehicles
• trimotors
• towplanes
• tilt-rotors

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of airplanes

Twenty-five years ago, 19 terrorists associated with al-Qaida hijacked commercial airplanes, crashing into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers and the Pentagon. — Jeremy Redmon, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026

Overhead, airplanes screech across a fat blue sky in a hurry to who knows where. — Jason Parham, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Nineteen fanatics, acting in the name of Islam, killed 2,997 innocent men, women and children in New York City, in Washington, and on airplanes turned into weapons of mass murder. — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026

Time failed a father of a young man who, 25 years ago Friday, was among the first victims of the mass murderers who turned airplanes into missiles aimed at American pillars of economic and military might. — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026

It's been 25 years since al-Qaida terrorists attacked the United States by hijacking four commercial airplanes and crashing them into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. — September 9, NPR, 9 Sep. 2026

The employee was working for Professional Ocean Service Corp and cleared airplanes. — Vinod Sreeharsha september 9, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026

In the 1950s and 1960s, the aerospace industry found eggshells’ resistance to shattering to be a useful model when conducting failure analysis studies of the metal shells used to build airplanes. — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2026

The morning of September 11, two airplanes hijacked by Islamic extremist terrorists struck the World Trade Center in New York City. — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Sep. 2026