Air Transportation in the Adventures

Note: Book (Chapter)* means the craft (either fictitious or historic) is only mentioned.

 

Book (Chapter):

5-A Trimotor Tin Goose, a transport plane built by Ford Motor Company in 1929. Never painted.

  • Dirk Pitt's special biplane called "Little Stinker."
  • Iceberg (12, 19)
    Raise the Titanic! (25)
    Valhalla Rising (21, 23, 24, 25)

  • Blue Gold (18)*
  • Adventure X-Presso, a French-made paraglider.

    Polar Shift (29, 31, Epilogue)

    Agusta Mark II helicopter on the Dorsett yacht.

    Shock Wave (56, 57)

    Aichi M6A1 Searian monoplane.

    Black Wind (8)

    Air Force One

    Deep Six (2, 13, 19)
    Cyclops (61)
    Dragon (64)

    Air France Concord.

    Sahara (30)

    Airbus, chartered by the United Nations.

    Sahara (26, 45, 46, 47)

    Airbus Industries, military versions of the A340-300, passengers and cargo planes in the hanger at Valhalla in the Antarctic.

    Atlantis Found (36, 43, 45, 46)

    Albatros D-3, a World War I fighter replica painted yellow.

  • Lesser known than its famous counterpart the Fokker.
  • The Mediterranean Caper (1, 2, 8)

    Albatross, a jet owned by Henri Villon.

    Night Probe! (67, 78)

    Amundsen, a Norwegian airship.

    White Death (Prologue II)*

    Agusta Mark II helicopter.

    Shock Wave (56)

    Akron, a Navy airship.

    Black Wind (48)*

    Aquarius NUMA tilt-wing jet.

    Valhalla Rising (47)*

    B-17 Flying Fortress.

    Pacific Vortex! (14)*

    B-29 bomber, Bock's Car.

    Dragon (62)*

    B-29, Dennings' Demons.

    Dragon (Dennings' Demons, 50, 62)

    B-29 bomber, Enola Gay.

    Dragon (62)*
    Blue Gold (18)*

    B-29 bomber, Lovin' Lil.

    Dragon (62)*

    B-52 bomber.

    Trojan Odyssey (44)

    B-92 Air Force reconnaissance bomber.

    Iceberg (20, 21)

    Baffin CZ-410, an amphibious flying boat.

    Inca Gold (33, 37, 39, 41, 42)

    Beechcraft Baron, a twin-engine aircraft.

    Serpent (25)

    Beechcraft twin-engine plane.

    Atlantis Found (2)

    Bell 430 helicopter. Pilot: Marvin Huey.

    Trojan Odyssey (34)

    Bell-Boeing 609 executive tilt-rotor plane.

    Atlantis Found (15)

    Bell Jet Ranger helicopter.

    Trojan Odyssey (46)
    Serpent (24, 25, 26)

    Beriev Be-200/210 amphibian executive jet painted lavender and owned by Odyssey.

    Trojan Odyssey (5, 8, 26, 36)

    Bo 105LS-7 helicopters purchased by Destiny Enterprises from the Messerschmidt-Bolkow Corporation.

    Atlantis Found (31)

    Boeing 720-B, Nebula Air.

    Treasure (Nebula Flight 106, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10)

    Boeing 737 jetliner chartered by the United Nations World Health team.

    Sahara (9, 16, 23)

    Boeing 747 jumbo jet.

    Polar Shift (40, 41, 42)

    Boeing 747-400 jetliner.

    Inca Gold (56)

    Boeing C-97 Stratocruiser #75403.

  • Operation code name (classified call sign) - Vixen 03.
  • Vixen 03 (Oblivion, 9, 41)

    British Westland Commando helicopter.

    Treasure (54, 59)

    Buccaneer jet transport.

    Shock Wave (14)

    C-133 Cargomaster transports (two) at Brady Field.

    The Mediterranean Caper (Prologue, 1)

    C-5 Galaxy made by Lockheed, nicknamed Gentle Giant.

  • Operation code name - Arizona.
  • Dragon (65)

    C-54 Douglas aircraft.

    Pacific Vortex! (14)

    C-140 transport.

    Treasure (48, 55)

    Ch-forty-seven Chinook helicopters.

    Trojan Odyssey (44)

    Canada One

    Night Probe! (5)

    Carrier Pigeon helicopters.

    Treasure (55, 59)

    Cassa 212 turboprop.

    Trojan Odyssey (18)

    Catalina, a Navy flying boat.

    Blue Gold (30, 31)

    Catlin M-200 NUMA aircraft.

  • Lands at Lake County airport outside of Leadville.
  • Vixen 03 (8, 67)

  • Vixen 03 (8)
  • Catlin M-200 helicopter.

    Vixen 03 (46, 67)

    Cessna Citation NUMA jet.

    Trojan Odyssey (15, 18, 46)

    Cessna Citation Ultra NUMA jet.

    Blue Gold (29)

    Cessna Citation Ultra V NUMA jet

    Atlantis Found (10, 11)

    Cessna Citation X NUMA jet.

    Serpent (34)

    Coast Guard helicopter.

    Vixen 03 (66)

    De Havilland Beaver, a bush plane.

    Shock Wave (19, 20)
    Serpent (46)

    Delta Oil whirlybird.

    Deep Six (68)

    Destiny Enterprises company jet.

    Atlantis found (36)

    Douglas DC-3.

    Valhalla Rising (23)*

    Ecureuil, Massarde's private helicopter on board his houseboat.

    Sahara (24)

    Enterprise, a starship.

    Valhalla Rising (17)*

    F-4 Phantom jet fighter.

    Sahara (28)

    F-15E night attack fighter. Pilot: Major Gus Hollyman.

    Cyclops (56, 58)

    F-16C Air National Guard fighters.

    Valhalla Rising (50)

    F-16D Falcon fighter jets.

    Black Wind (61)

    F-21 Specters with Satan penetration missiles.

    Vixen 03 (60, 64)

    F-22A, a Navy supersonic two-place fighter.

    Shock Wave (57)

    F-105 Starfire jets (ten) at Brady Field.

    The Mediterranean Caper (Prologue, 1)

    F/A 21 Navy strike aircraft.

    Deep Six

    FXH, a long-range NUMA helicopter.

    Pacific Vortex! (4*, 11)

    Fairchild, a monoplane wreck.

    Sahara (Prologue, 42, 43)

    Fokker, painted red.

    Valhalla Rising (23, 24, 25)
    Lost City (24)

    Gettysburg, a U.S. space shuttle. Flight Commander: Dave Jurgens.

  • Columbus, a space station. Commanded by Jack Sherman.
  • Cyclops (56, 57, 58)

  • Cyclops (51)
  • Goodyear blimp.

    Cyclops (3, 4)*

    Gooney, a NUMA ultralight plane.

    Fire Ice (4)

    Graf Zeppelin

    Black Wind (48)*
    White Death (Prologue II, 37)*

    Grumman F4F WWII airplane.

    Raise the Titanic! (28)

    Gulfstream IV jetliner.

    Treasure (22)

    Gulfstream V, a Learjet owned by Dorsett.

    Shock Wave (19)

    Gulfstream government jet.

    Dragon (20, 39)

    Gulfstream NUMA jet.

    Shock Wave (29)
    Valhalla Rising (21)
    Black Wind (41)

    Helicopter, unmarked.

    Dragon (30)

    Helicopter owned by Massarde Enterprises.

    Sahara (8, 32, 58, 59)

    Helicopter on board Epona.

    Trojan Odyssey (22)

    Hideki Suma's private plane, a stick tilt-turbine aircraft.

    Dragon (53)

    Hindenberg

    Cyclops (13)*
    Black Wind (48, 54, 55)*
    White Death (33, 37, 38)*

    Huey helicopters.

    Serpent (36)

    Ibis X-20 ultra-light power gliders are on board the Ralph R. Bennett.

    Dragon (44)

    Icarus, an airship being tested by NUMA.

    Black Wind (48, 49, 50, 54, 59, 61, 62)

    Italia, an Italian dirigible.

  • Sister ship to the Norge.
  • White Death (Prologue II)*

    Japanese Dragonfire twin-engine jet owned by Destiny Enterprises.

    Atlantis Found (36, 43, 45, 46, 47)

    Jayhawk police helicopter.

    Valhalla Rising (49)

    Ka-32 Helix Russian Navy helicopter.

    Shock Wave (25)

    LA-250 Renegade Amphibius airplane

    Polar Shift (11, 12)

    Lady Be Good, a plane crash in the Sahara.

    Dragon (50)*

    Lorelei Mark VIII-B1608

    Iceberg (5, 12*)

    Macon, a Navy airship.

    Black Wind (48)*

    Malian jet fighters.

    Sahara (26)

    Mauie M-7 single engine float plane.

    Blue Gold (29, 30)

    McDonnell Douglas helicopter

    Blue Gold (7)

    McDonnell Douglas light utility helicopter

    Polar Shift (9, 10)

    McDonnell Douglas C-17

    Atlantis Found (39)

    McDonnell Douglas 530 MD Defenders helicopters owned by Dorsett.

    Shock Wave (19, 20, 24)

    McDonnell Douglas Explorer helicopter.

    Atlantis Found (19)

    McDonnell Douglas Explorer helicopter owned by Odyssey.

    Trojan Odyssey (39)

    McDonnell Douglas Explorer, a NUMA helicopter.

    Inca Gold (22, 23)
    Flood Tide (11)
    Trojan Odyssey (38)

    Messerschmidt Me-262A-la Luftwaffe jet fighter.

    Dragon (31, 37, 74)

    Mi-8, Hip C assault transport helicopters.

    Inca Gold (8, 9)

    Minerva M-88, a NUMA helicopter.

    Vixen 03 (58, 63, 65, 66, 67)

    Mirage jet fighters.

    Sahara (17, 47, 53, 54)

    Mitsubishi Raven jet fighters.

    Dragon (57)

    Moller M400 Skycar.

    Atlantis Found (29, 31)

    Morane-Saulnier, a red plane

    Lost City (Prologue, 12)

    Morane-Saulnier N, an antique plane

    Lost City (14)

    Murmoto tilt-rotor executive jet.

    Dragon (27)

    Nietzsche, a zeppelin.

    White Death (33, 37, 38, 39)

    Navy sea rescue helicopters.

    Deep Six (57)

    Norge, an Italian dirigible.

  • Sister ship to the Italia.
  • White Death (Prologue II)*

    NUMA executive jet.

    Atlantis Found (37)
    Polar Shift (24)

    NUMA flying boat.

    Dragon (11)

    NUMA turquoise helicopter on board the Peter Throckmorton.

    Polar Shift (9, 10, 17)

    NUMA helicopter on board the Navy Polar Explorer.

    Treasure (7, 9, 10)

    NUMA helicopter painted green. Pilot: Joe Mifflin.

    Treasure (65)

    NUMA helicopter from Deep Fathom.

    Inca Gold (2, 4)

    NUMA helicopter on board the Alhambra.

    Inca Gold (36, 37, 38, 39, 46, 53, 55)

    NUMA helicopter on board the Ice Hunter.

    Shock Wave (3, 6, 7, 8, 13)

    NUMA helicopter, a commercial version of the Navy's SH-60B Seahawk.

    Shock Wave (51)

    NUMA helicopter.

    Valhalla Rising (39)
    Trojan Odyssey (10)

    NUMA jet.

    Deep Six (68)
    Atlantis Found (37)
    Black Wind (19)

    Orion P-3 Hurricane Hunter aircraft, Galloping Gertie.

  • Used by the Navy, NOAA and NUMA.
  • Trojan Odyssey (7, 9)

    Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft.

    Treasure (54)
    Dragon (44)
    Atlantis Found (25)

    PBY Catalina NUMA World War II flying boat.

    The Mediterranean Caper (1, 2)
    Deep Six (3)

    Paraplanes.

    Flood Tide (42)

    Pave Hawk helicopter.

    Blue Gold (31)

    Piper Senera twin-engine plane.

    Blue Gold (24)

    Propeller two-engine plane.

    Polar Shift (24)

    Prosperteer, a blimp.

  • Formerly designated ZMC-2.
  • Cyclops (1, 4, 18, 19)

  • Cyclops (1)
  • Rumpler bomber.

    The Mediterranean Caper (6)*

    Seaplane.

    Lost City (26, 27)

    Seaplane.

    Polar Shift (24, 29)

    Spook F-140 jet fighter.

    Vixen 03 (46)

    SR-71 "blackbird".

    Treasure (50)*

    SR-90 "the Capser," a delta wing reconnaissance aircraft.

  • Named after Casper, the cartoon ghost.
  • Treasure (50)
    Dragon (62)

  • Treasure (50)
  • Salyut 9, a Russian space station.

    Cyclops (14)*

    Scinletti 440, a VTOL (Vertical takeoff and landing) craft made in Italy. Pilot: Jack Webster.

    Night Probe! (73)

    Selenos 4, a Russian lunar probe.

    Cyclops (12, 16)*.

    Selenos 5, a Russian lunar probe.

    Cyclops (16)*

    Selenos 6, a Russian lunar probe.

    Cyclops (16)*

    Selenos 8, first Russian manned lunar landing mission.

    Cyclops (16)*, (47, 48)

    Sikorsky H-76 Eagle helicopter.

    Flood Tide (41)
    Sahara (58)

    Sikorsky hh 60-h Seahawk helicopters.

    Fire Ice (35)

    Sikorsky S-76C+, a NUMA offshore helicopter.

    Black Wind (2)

    1932 Sikorsky S-38 amphibian.

    Valhalla Rising (23)

    Sikorsky S-76C, a NUMA plane.

    Fire Ice (18)

    Skyfox Lockheed NUMA two seater jet.

    Flood Tide (29)

    Spirit of St, Louis/Charles Lindberg.

    Iceberg (19)*

    Ulysses Q-55 helicopter, civilian version painted yellow.

    Iceberg (1, 2, 3, 5)

    Ultralight planes, painted yellow.

    Flood Tide (10)

    YB-49A

    Blue Gold (20)

    ZMC-2

  • Renamed the Prosperteer.
  • Cyclops (1)*

       

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