There are hundreds of transportation symbols available that includes land, water and air transport. Airplane or aero plane is one of the popular emoji symbols used to indicate flying as well as airplane mode in smartphones. In addition, you can see the arriving and departing airplane symbols in airports. If you are looking for how to make different types of airplane symbol with keyboard, then here you go.
Airplane Symbol Shortcut Summary
There are around 8 different airplane symbols you can use make with keyboard shortcut. Some of these airplane symbols are plain grayscale text while some are solid colorful emoji. You can insert them on your documents and chat conversations depending upon the need. Note, text airplane symbols are not supported on all applications. For example, you may see a square box in Chrome and other browsers, however, the symbol will look properly when you insert on documents.
Below table shows the Unicode point for all available airplane symbols along with the corresponding decimal and hexadecimal codes. We will explain how to use these decimal and hexadecimal codes in the following sections.
| Airplane Symbol | Name | Decimal Code | Hexadecimal Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✈ | Airplane (emoji) | 9992 | 2708 |
| 🛦 | Up-pointing Military Airplane | 128742 | 1F6E6 |
| 🛧 | Up-pointing Airplane | 128743 | 1F6E7 |
| 🛨 | Up-pointing Small Airplane | 128744 | 1F6E8 |
| 🛩 | Small Airplane (emoji) | 128745 | 1F6E9 |
| 🛪 | Northeast-pointing Airplane | 128746 | 1F6EA |
| 🛫 | Airplane Departure (emoji) | 128747 | 1F6EB |
| 🛬 | Airplane Arrival (emoji) | 128748 | 1F6EC |
| 💺 | Seat (emoji) | 128186 | 1F4BA |
Note: Though Seat emoji is not specifically related to airplanes, it is displayed as an airplane seat symbol.
Make Airplane Symbol in Windows 11
There are multiple ways you can make airplane symbol in Windows. Follow one of the below methods to insert airplane symbol in Windows 11.
Decimal Keyboard Shortcuts
The simple way to insert airplane symbols in Windows operating system is to use alt keys with the decimal code. However, you need to have a separate number pad for using this option.
- First, turn on numeric pad on your keyboard.
- Press one of the alt keys and type the decimal code in the above table.
- For example, alt + 9992 will make the airplane emoji symbol like ✈.
Hexadecimal Shortcuts for Microsoft Word
This method works well on Microsoft Word documents.
- Type the hexadecimal code from the above table.
- Then press alt + x keys together.
- For example, 1F6EC alt + x will make the airplane arrival emoji like 🛬.
Using Character Map for Making Airplane Symbol
This is another option to insert symbols in Windows based computers.
- Press “Win + R” to open Run prompt.
- Type charmap and press “OK” button. This will open Character Map app which you can use to insert thousands of Unicode symbols.
- Change the font to Segoe UI Emoji and find the airplane symbol.
- Double click on the symbol to select and then click on “Copy” button.
- Paste the copied symbol anywhere by using “Control + V” keyboard shortcuts.
Make Airplane Emoji with Emoji Panel
This is the best option to insert four of the listed airplane emoji symbols in Windows 11.
- Place the cursor where you want to insert the airplane symbol.
- Press “Win + Dot” keys to open emoji panel. This will work on the computers using Windows 10 or later version.
- Use the search box to filter airplane emoji.
- Click on the symbol to insert in the cursor’s position.
- Close the emoji panel and continue your task.
Make Airplane Symbol in Mac
On Mac, you can use the Character Viewer app to insert airplane emoji symbols.
- Place the cursor anywhere on the application and go to “Edit > Emoji & Symbols” menu.
- This will open Character Viewer app, type airplane in the search box.
- Double click on the emoji to insert.
- Close the Character Viewer app and continue your task.
Note that default Mac apps do not text airplane symbols and only supports emoji.
Make Airplane Emoji in Smartphones
Similar to desktop applications, you can also make airplane emoji in iPhone and Android smartphones. Though iPhone comes with default emoji keyboard, you need to install apps like Gboard in Android phones.
- When you are in the text box, tap on the smile icon on your keyboard.
- Search airplane to filter relevant emoji symbols.
- Tap on the airplane emoji to insert in the text area.
Using Airplane Symbol in HTML and CSS
If you want to insert airplane symbols in HTML and CSS documents, then you can directly use the decimal and hexadecimal codes in different formats.
- On HTML documents, use &# as prefix to the decimal codes. For example, typing 🛫 will make the airplane departure symbol 🛫. Similarly, you can use the hexadecimal code with prefix &#x like 🛫.
- On CSS, you can use the hexadecimal codes with the \ prefix to insert airplane symbols. Below is the example code for inserting small airplane 🛩 symbol in CSS with HTML list element.
li:before {
content:\1F6E9;
}Airplane Emoji Display in Different Platforms
As mentioned, emoji symbols will have solid display while plain text symbols will look like a line diagram. This also depends on the applications you use airplane symbols. For example, Character Viewer in Mac will show you both airplane symbols in text and emoji format. Though both symbols have same Unicode point and looks similar in Microsoft apps like Word, they will look different in Mac apps like Pages. Below is how the airplane text and emoji symbols will look in Pages app.
The advantage of text symbols is that you can apply colors and blend with your text. You can’t change the colors of solid emoji symbols and need to use as they look.
Image Reference
Below is the image containing all airplane related symbols with decimal and hexadecimal codes. You can right click on the image and save as to your computer for offline reference.
