95 Aviation-Inspired Cat Names for High Flyers
Fasten your seatbelts and stow away your tray tables, feline friends and human companions!
Today, we’re soaring through the clouds on a first-class flight to find the most purr-fect aviation-inspired
Whether your kitty has the adventurous spirit of an ace pilot or the curious wanderlust of a world traveler, we’ve got a name that will make their whiskers tingle with excitement.
From kitty cadets to the top-gun mogs, there’s a whole hangar full of names waiting to be claimed.
Each one carries a bit of that bold, free, and untamed spirit that cats and aviators share.
So… let’s taxi down the runway and take flight with a name that celebrates the boundless sky – the ultimate playground for our adventurous kitties.
Grab your pilot’s hat and a toy plane because we’re about to embark on a naming adventure that promises to reach new heights of fun and creativity.
Ready for takeoff? Here we go!
Aviation-Inspired Cat Names
- Ace
- Aero
- Aileron
- Airbus
- Airy
- Albatross
- Amelia Purrhart (after Amelia Earhart)
- Apollo
- Astor
- Atlas
- Aviator
- Baron (as in the Red Baron)
- Beacon
- Biplane
- Birdie
- Blimp
- Boeing
- Bomber
- Boomer
- Buzz (as in Buzz Aldrin)
- Captain Whiskers
- Chopper
- Cirrus
- Comet
- Concord
- Cooper (as in “hangar”)
- Dakota
- Dash
- Delta
- Douglas (after the Douglas Aircraft Company)
- Drake (as in the Spruce Goose, Howard Hughes’ plane)
- Eagle
- Echo
- Electra (after the Lockheed Model 10-E Electra)
- Falcon
- Fighter
- Finch
- Flight
- Flit
- Flyer
- Ford (after the Ford Tri-Motor aircraft)
- G-force
- Garmin (like the avionics brand)
- Glider
- Gusty
- Hangar
- Hawk
- Helix (like a propeller shape)
- Hercules (after the C-130 Hercules)
- Hermes (after the Greek god associated with travel)
- Hopper
- Horizon
- Icarus
- Igor (after Igor Sikorsky, helicopter inventor)
- Illusion (as in Blue Angels, Illusion of Flight)
- Jet
- Jumbo (as in jumbo jet)
- Jupiter (like the missile and the planet associated with sky)
- Kittyhawk (after the Wright brothers’ first flight location)
- Lancaster (after the Avro Lancaster)
- Leo (short for Leonardo, as in Da Vinci)
- Liberty (as in the Statue of Liberty, often flown over)
- Lindy (after Charles Lindbergh)
- Mach (as in Mach speed)
- Mariner
- Maverick (after the Top Gun character)
- Mercury
- Meteor
- MiG (after the Russian aircraft)
- Missile
- Mitchell (after the B-25 Mitchell bomber)
- Navigator
- Nighthawk
- Nimbus
- Nomad
- Orville (after Orville Wright)
- Osprey
- Phantom (after the F-4 Phantom)
- Pilot
- Piper (after the aircraft manufacturer)
- Prop
- Radar
- Raptor (after the F-22 Raptor)
- Rocket
- Rudder
- Sputnik
- Stratos
- Tailspin
- Thrust
- Thunder (as in thunderbirds)
- Titan
- Tomcat (after the F-14 Tomcat)
- Voyager
- Wilbur (after Wilbur Wright)
- Zeppelin
Photo credit: David Parker Brown
