# What is your favorite airplane film?

> Whether it is a high-octane dogfight at Mach speed, a desperate mid-air hostage crisis, or a black comedy where nobody can fly the plane, these movies put aircraft at center stage. Which one is your all-time favorite?

*By YPB Team · Published April 8, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-your-favorite-airplane-film*

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## Current results (1 vote)

1. **Airplane!** — score 1000/1000
   The 1980 parody masterpiece by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker that turned aviation disaster films into the ultimate comedy.
2. **Sully** — score 679/1000
   Tom Hanks as Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in 2016.
3. **Top Gun: Maverick** — score 678/1000
   The 2022 blockbuster sequel where an older Maverick trains a new generation of pilots for an impossible mission.
4. **Non-Stop** — score 555/1000
   Liam Neeson as an air marshal who must identify a killer threatening to eliminate passengers one by one mid-flight.
5. **Top Gun** — score 555/1000
   The 1986 Tony Scott classic starring Tom Cruise as hotshot Navy pilot Maverick, defining a generation of aerial action cinema.
6. **The Aviator** — score 396/1000
   Martin Scorsese's 2004 biopic of Howard Hughes, exploring his obsessive quest to push aviation to its absolute limits.
7. **Snakes on a Plane** — score 396/1000
   Samuel L. Jackson battles venomous snakes released on a flight in this gloriously absurd 2006 action film.
8. **United 93** — score 396/1000
   Paul Greengrass's harrowing 2006 recreation of the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 who fought back against hijackers.
9. **Air Force One** — score 396/1000
   Harrison Ford as the U.S. President who fights back when terrorists hijack his plane in this 1997 action thriller.
10. **Flight** — score 396/1000
   Denzel Washington plays a skilled but troubled pilot who miraculously lands a failing plane in Robert Zemeckis's 2012 drama.
11. **Con Air** — score 396/1000
   Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich star in this 1997 action thriller about convicts who hijack their own prison transport plane.

Tags: movies, action, thriller