Airplane coloring pages: 46 printable designs, from smiling cartoon planes and simple outlines to airport scenes, vintage biplanes, and fighter jets.
What’s Inside This Collection
Smiling Cartoon Airplanes
Six pages give airplanes friendly faces, including a plane under a smiling sun, one passing a hot air balloon, a round-nosed cartoon plane, one flying around the globe, a cartoon plane over hills, and a funny plane with a dog-like nose.
Pilots and Working Planes
Six pages show planes at work, with a pilot in the cockpit window, a plane pulling a banner, a cargo plane being loaded, a rescue plane with a cross, a firefighting plane dropping water on a forest fire, and a pilot waving beside a plane.
Airports, Runways, and Sky Scenes
Eleven pages set the scene, with planes over mountains, the ocean, and the countryside, a landing on a runway, passengers boarding by stairs, an airport tower, a view through a plane window, a cockpit full of dials, a plane flying over water, a night sky with a moon, and a takeoff.
Vintage and Propeller Planes
Six pages show propeller planes, including a vintage biplane, a detailed plane among clouds, a small plane above mountains, a small single-engine plane, a propeller plane under the sun, and a simple propeller plane.
Military and Fighter Planes
Three pages show military aircraft, with a fighter jet, a World War II fighter plane, and a vintage jet in an action scene.
Paper Planes, Helicopters, and Mixed Aircraft
Four pages add variety, with one page of many different airplanes, a helicopter, two outlined planes among clouds, and a folded paper airplane.
Simple Outline of Airplanes
Ten pages use big, simple outlines, including easy preschool planes, a bold single plane, a plane with the word Airplane, and cute planes with plain shapes.
What Airplane Coloring Pages Do
Fine motor skill building serves as a primary benefit of structured coloring activities for young colorists at ages 2 through 7, as stated by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The youngest colorists usually enjoy smiling planes and bold outlines, and older children usually prefer the cockpit, airport, and fighter pages.
The 2005 findings in the Art Therapy Journal back up measurable reductions in anxiety in the hours after structured coloring sessions. Clouds, windows, and wing shapes are a good match for slow, quiet coloring.
The Wright brothers made the first powered, controlled flight on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, when Orville Wright flew 120 feet in 12 seconds.
How to Color Airplane Pages Well
- Sky: light blue for the sky with white or pale gray clouds, and a deeper blue near the top of the page.
- Fuselage: Two colors in a long stripe along the windows give a classic airliner look.
- Propeller planes: silver or gray with a darker shade under the wings, and a bright color for the tail.
- Rescue and fire planes: red for the cross and the tail, and blue for the water drop.
- Night scenes: dark blue or purple for the sky, with yellow for the moon and stars.
5 Creative Craft Ideas With Airplane Coloring Pages
1. Airplane Mobile
After coloring several plane pages, balance them on a wire coat hanger by sliding the strings until the Airplane Mobile hangs level.
2. Airport Poster
Color the runway, tower, and cockpit pages and glue them onto one large sheet to build an airport.
3. Pilot Logbook Cover
Color a pilot page, glue it to cardstock, and add pages for writing about pretend flights.
4. Cloud Window Display
Color a plane window page and tape cotton clouds around the edges.
5. Paper Plane Race Card
Color the paper airplane page, then fold a real paper plane and decorate it to match.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the paper airplane page available without signing up?
Yes, free access covers the paper airplane page and the other 45 printables, and no card details are asked for.
Is it fine to skip the printer for the cockpit page?
Yes, the cockpit page runs in a normal web browser, just like the rest of the collection, and a smartphone gets the job done.
Who made the first airplane flight?
The Wright brothers did, with Orville Wright flying 120 feet in 12 seconds on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Which pages show a pilot?
Two pages show a pilot, one in the cockpit window and one waving beside the plane, and a cockpit page shows the dials and controls.
Is there a view from inside a plane?
Yes, one page shows the view through a plane window, and another shows a cockpit with dials and a control wheel.
Are there military planes in this collection?
Three pages show military aircraft, a fighter jet, a World War II fighter plane, and a vintage jet in an action scene.
Which airplane pages are the simplest?
The ten simple outline pages use big shapes and few details, and several are labeled easy or preschool.
Which airplane pages work best for a classroom aviation display?
The airport poster and the paper plane race card pair well with the airplane mobile, the pilot logbook cover, and the cloud window display, and every one starts from a colored page.
From runway scenes to cargo planes and biplanes, the collection covers a lot of sky. All 46 designs in this set do not cost a cent, and it takes one click to start. Colored sheets can be sent to Pinterest or Facebook with a click on the page’s share icons.
