Emily Walker
Cat aviation can be as exciting as it sounds, and even more enjoyable.
There are many aviation cat names in the aviation industry, including fighter pilots, flight engineers, air traffic controllers and aviation support staff.
Here are aviation cat names that you can consider for your loving feline friends.
Male Aviation Cat Names
| Names | Meanings |
| Hercules |
After the Hughes H-4 Hercules, aka the “Spruce Goose”, in 1947 was the largest plane to fly
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| Mustang |
After North American Aviation’s P-51 Mustang, one of the best fighters of the WWII era
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| Flak | |
| Boomerang |
After the Rutan Model 202, an asymmetrical twin-engine, twin-fuselage aircraft
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| Spitfire |
After the Supermarine Spitfire, a famous British warplane during WWII
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| Vector | |
| Hughes |
After the Hughes Aircraft Company, aerospace and defense contractor
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| Martin |
After Martin Marietta, who combined with Allen Lockheed’s company to form Lockheed Martin
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| Mitc | |
| Dassault |
After Dassault Aviation, French airplane manufacturers who make military and business jets
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| Bomber | |
| Cyclone | |
| Boeing |
After the Boeing Company, one of the largest aircraft manufacturers in the world
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| Raptor |
After the F-22 Raptor, one of the best-designed fighter jets currently
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| Taildragger | |
| Louis |
After the Spirit of St. Louis, which was used in a landmark flight that lasted 33.5 hours non-stop flight from New York to Paris
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| Charles | |
| Lockheed |
After the Lockheed Corporation, who combined with Martin Marietta’s company to create Lockheed Martin
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| Roger | |
| Goblin |
After the McDonnell XF-85 Goblin, a “parasite fighter” design meant to be dropped from larger planes
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| Turbo | |
| Predator |
After the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, the first military drone, aka unmanned aerial vehicle
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| Osprey |
After the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey, which can take off and land vertically like a helicopter
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| Atomic |
After General Atomics, American defense contractor who developed the first drone planes and other advanced technologies
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| Rutan |
After Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer who designed several groundbreaking aircrafts
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| Chief | |
| Mitchell |
After the B-25B Mitchells, famous bombers used in WWII
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| Zeke | |
| Douglas |
After the Douglas Aircraft Company, who have designed and produced several popular aircraft of various types
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| Proteus |
After the Scaled Composites Model 281 Proteus
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| Lightning |
After the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
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| Hawker |
After Hawker Aircraft, Ltd., manufacturers of some of the most famous planes in British history
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| Albatross |
After the Gossamer Albatross
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| Stinker |
After the Little Stinker, an aerobatic champion plane in the 1940s, classically recognizable red and white stripes
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| Jet | |
| Bernoulli | |
| Wright |
After the Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur, who are widely credited with inventing, building, and flying the world’s first successful airplane
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| Carbon |
After the Carbon Cub, a modern version of the popular Piper Cub
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| Radar | |
| Falcon |
After the Dassault Falcon 7X, a French business jet with a tri-jet engine
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| Concorde |
After the Concorde airliner, an early but successful supersonic jet
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| Aeronaut | |
| Spinner | |
| Jug | |
| Messerschmitt |
After German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt, famous for their WWII warplanes
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| Baron |
After the Red Baron’s Fokker Dr.I, flown by the Red Baron himself who won 80 combats in WWI
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| Voyager |
After the Scaled Composites Voyager, the first aircraft to circumnavigate the earth without stopping or refueling
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Female Aviation Cat Names
| Names | Meanings |
| Star |
After the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, the United States’ first combat aircraft with a turbojet
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| Guppy |
After The Pregnant Guppy, an aptly-named bulbous cargo plane used to transport materials for NASA
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| Hurricane |
After the Hawker Hurricane, one of the two most important and influential planes of early WWII
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| Aerodyne |
After Alexander Lippisch’s Aerodyne, one of the most unconventional shapes in aviation history
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| Embry | |
| Spit | |
| Varieze |
After the Rutan VariEze, a unique composite airplane popular among amateur builders
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| Cub |
After the Piper J-3 Cub, which was used to train 80% of WWII pilots
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| Vinfiz |
After the Vin Fiz, a modified Wright-style bi-plane, first airplane to fly from coast to coast across the US
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| Flyer |
After the Wright Flyer, credited as the first successful airplane
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| Bell |
After Bell Aircraft, manufacturers of WWII fighter planes, as well as the famous X1, the first supersonic aircraft
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| Solar |
After the Solar Impulse, a plane with a massive wingspan lined with solar panels for power
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| Aurora |
The name of a super-secret spy plane, supposedly a replacement for the SR-71
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| Constellation |
After the Lockheed Constellation, also known as the “Connie”, the first widely used pressurized airliner
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| Amelia | |
| Memphis |
After the Memphis Belle, one of the first B-17 bombers to complete 25 WWII missions
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| Bede |
After the Bede BD-5J, best known for its use in the James Bond film Octopussy
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| Iata | |
| Goose |
After the Hughes H-4 Hercules, also known as the Spruce Goose
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| Zero |
After the Mitsubishi Zero, Japanese fighter planes of WWII
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| Aileron | |
| Piper |
After airplane manufacturer Piper Aircraft, one of the “Big Three” of general aviation
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| Pria | |
| Spirit |
After the Spirit of St. Louis, the plane flown by Charles Lindberg
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| Belle |
After the Memphis Belle, one of the most successful bombers of WWII
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| Bleriot |
After aviation pioneer Louis Blériot, whose design was inspired by the Wright Brothers and soon influenced Clyde Cessna
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| Pax | |
| Parasol |
After the Nemuth Parasol, an airplane developed in 1934 with a single wing in the shape of a parasol
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| Blackbird |
After the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, which holds the world record for being the fastest air-breathing manned airplane in history, which it set in 1976
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| Enola |
After the Enola Gay, used to drop the atomic bomb
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| Cessna |
After the Cessna Aircraft Company, one of the highest-volume producers in general aviation
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| Dora | |
| Betty | |
| Gossamer |
After AeroVironment’s Gossamer series, which included the Condor, Albatross, and Penguin
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| Harrier |
After the BAE AV-8B Harrier II, one of the most successful jets of the modern era
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| Eclipse |
After the Eclipse 550, an engineering marvel of endurance
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| Electra |
After the Lockheed Model 10 Electra, the groundbreaking plane flown by Amelia Earhart in her around-the-world flight that went 22,000 miles before disappearing over the ocean
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| Cirrus |
After aircraft manufacturer Cirrus Aircraft, who make light sport aircraft
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| Mirage |
After the Dassault-Breguet Mirage, widely used by smaller militaries in the 1960s due to it’s inexpensive build and overall toughness
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