50 Best Rock Songs About Planes
Best Rock Songs That Take Flight
There’s a strange pull in songs that circle the idea of planes. Something in that mix of distance and noise, the static hum of engines before takeoff, the way your stomach dips when the ground drops away. It’s not always about flying itself. Sometimes it’s escape, or regret, or the rush of wanting to be anywhere but where you are. These tracks catch that altitude—the blurred line between freedom and running out of places to go.
Airports and departure lounges turn into stages for goodbyes, delayed dreams, or the kind of silence that stretches for miles. The guitars drone like turbines, drums hit like turbulence, and even when the lyrics stay vague, the sound knows what it’s doing. Some tracks feel like motion itself, others sound stranded, watching the sky without moving an inch. It’s that space between going and staying that keeps pulling artists in, from pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that somehow find the same pulse in the clouds.
Not every one of these tracks deals directly with planes, but they still carry that restless hum. The lift, the fall, the quiet moments at cruising altitude where everything feels too big and too small at the same time. These are the songs that fit that sky-high tension and ground-level ache. Here are the best rock songs about planes.
Top 10 Plane Themed Rock Songs
1. 'Jet Airliner' by Steve Miller Band
2. 'Learn to Fly' by Foo Fighters
3. 'Learning to Fly' by Pink Floyd
4. 'Aeroplane' by Red Hot Chili Peppers
5. 'Back in the U.S.S.R.' by The Beatles
6. 'Fly Away' by Lenny Kravitz
7. 'Flight of Icarus' by Iron Maiden
8. 'Eight Miles High' by The Byrds
9. 'Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)' by Elton John
10. 'The Letter' by The Box Tops
Rock and Roll Songs About Aviation Journeys #11 to 20
11. 'Time for Me to Fly' by REO Speedwagon
12. 'Jet' by Paul McCartney and Wings
13. 'Given to Fly' by Pearl Jam
14. 'Fly By Night' by Rush
15. 'Flight 505' by The Rolling Stones
16. 'The Zephyr Song' by Red Hot Chili Peppers
17. 'High Flying Bird' by Jefferson Airplane
18. 'Take Me To The Pilot' by Elton John
19. 'Aces High' by Iron Maiden
20. 'Danger Zone' by Kenny Loggins
More Rock Songs About Flying and Aircraft #21 to 30
21. 'Jet Boy' by New York Dolls
22. 'Night Flight' by Led Zeppelin
23. 'Flying High Again' by Ozzy Osbourne
24. 'Johnson's Aeroplane' by INXS
25. 'Airplane' by Plain White T's
26. 'Space Oddity' by David Bowie
27. 'Fly Like an Eagle' by Steve Miller Band
28. 'Free Bird' by Lynyrd Skynyrd
29. '747 (Strangers in the Night)' by Saxon
30. 'The Passenger' by Iggy Pop
Classic Rock Songs Featuring Planes and Flight #31 to 40
31. 'Leaving on a Jet Plane' by Peter, Paul and Mary
32. 'Flying' by The Beatles
33. 'Gypsy Airways' by Stephen Stills
34. 'Bent To Fly' by Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators
35. 'ME 262' by Blue Öyster Cult
36. 'Earlybird' by Eagles
37. 'Airplane' by The Indigo Girls
38. 'Aeroplane Blues' by The Black Keys
39. 'Expecting to Fly' by Buffalo Springfield
40. 'I'm Mandy, Fly Me' by 10cc
Essential Rock and Roll Plane and Flying Songs #41 to 50
41. 'Paper Plane' by Status Quo
42. 'Wheels Ain't Coming Down' by Slade
43. 'Mr. Airplane Man' by Howlin' Wolf
44. 'Dreams of Flying' by Mudcrutch
45. 'Fly Away From Here' by Aerosmith
46. 'Scandinavian Skies' by Billy Joel
47. 'Waitress in the Sky' by The Replacements
48. 'Sky Pilot' by The Animals
49. 'Promised Land' by Chuck Berry
50. 'Just a Song Before I Go' by Crosby, Stills & Nash
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