What is the most famous aircraft in aviation history?

By YPB Team

Some aircraft are remembered for what they did, some for who flew them, and one for never being found. Rank the airframes the public actually knows by name.

  1. Wright Flyer — ranked #11
    Wright Flyer
    Flew four times on 17 December 1903 and made every other entry on this list possible.
    1000pts
  2. Spirit of St. Louis — ranked #22
    Spirit of St. Louis
    Carried Lindbergh from New York to Paris in 1927 with no forward windscreen.
    493pts
  3. Supermarine Spitfire — ranked #33
    Supermarine Spitfire
    The elliptical wing that became the shorthand for the Battle of Britain.
    403pts
  4. Bell X-1 — ranked #44
    Bell X-1
    The bullet-shaped rocket plane in which Chuck Yeager passed Mach 1 in 1947.
    403pts
  5. Boeing 747 — ranked #55
    Boeing 747
    The hump that made intercontinental flying affordable from 1970.
    349pts
  6. Enola Gay — ranked #66
    Enola Gay
    The B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb on 6 August 1945.
    288pts
  7. Concorde — ranked #77
    Concorde
    Flew passengers at twice the speed of sound from 1976 until 2003.
    288pts
  8. Lockheed Model 10 Electra — ranked #88
    Lockheed Model 10 Electra
    Bought for Amelia Earhart by Purdue benefactors, and missing since 2 July 1937.
    134pts
  9. SR-71 Blackbird — ranked #99
    SR-71 Blackbird
    Still holds the official air-breathing speed record it set in 1976.
    37pts
  10. Douglas DC-3 — ranked #1010
    Douglas DC-3
    Made scheduled airline travel profitable and is still flying eighty years on.
    37pts

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